Profile: Strand Life Sciences offers products for research biology, chemistry and drug discovery. Our data mining platform is widely used in verticals like gene expression, pre-clinical, chemistry and healthcare at various pharmaceutical & biotechnology companies. We have also developed tools for oligo design, microarray image analysis & executed several custom data analysis projects. Our sarani technology automates large-scale design of optimal oligonucleotide probes for microarray experiments. Using this technology, thousands of gene sequences can be analyzed together & the best available oligonucleotide probes with uniform thermodynamic properties & minimal similarity to non-specific genes can be selected. The accuracy and efficiency of the design and selection process is facilitated by new implementations of algorithms for predicting hybridization properties along with a unique store-and-query database paradigm, which allows the user to tightly control the design parameters. It can be used for designing oligonucleotide probes and persisting them in a database for further analysis. Our marketed products include avadis and sarchitect.