Perimeter


Developer and operator of an always-on biosecurity infrastructure that integrates environmental sample collection, genomic and metagenomic sequencing, computational biology, and AI-driven forecasting to detect, characterize, and guide responses to biological threats. Deployed across airports, hospitals, conflict zones, and international partner sites, the platform supports traveler- and wastewater-based surveillance, rapid assay development, and identification of engineered genetic material.

Industries

Biotechnology Research

Nr. of Employees

medium (51-250)

Perimeter

Boston, Massachusetts, United States


Products

Pan-clade wastewater PCR assay kit

Validated molecular assay kit for wastewater surveillance capable of detecting across clades where standard diagnostics may fail; designed for operational deployment in surveillance programs.


Services

Provision and operation of a continuous biosurveillance capability that integrates environmental sampling, sequencing, computational analysis, and risk forecasting to support decision-makers.

Rapid design, laboratory validation, and distribution of molecular assays for environmental surveillance, with pathways for kit distribution through public health networks.

Expertise Areas

  • Biosurveillance infrastructure
  • Genomic surveillance and sequencing
  • Metagenomic analysis for pathogen and AMR detection
  • AI-driven pathogen characterization
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Key Technologies

  • Metagenomic sequencing
  • High-throughput sequencing workflows
  • Wastewater-based surveillance
  • Traveler-based sampling
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News & Updates

Preprint describing a scalable traveler-based genomic surveillance approach for early detection.

Report describing early detection of a SARS-CoV-2 variant using genomic surveillance approaches.

Preprint on using composite airplane wastewater metagenomic sequencing for emerging virus surveillance.

Support for an airport-based genomic surveillance network capturing biological intelligence from 135+ countries of origin and collecting over one million international traveler samples since 2021.

Milestone reporting one million volunteer participants in the traveler-based genomic surveillance program.


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