animal biome as a company have a test available right can you walk us through what the animal biome microbiome test is the technology space because there are a few different ways to look at the microbiome right

that's right yes um So we use what's called 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequencing.

And we're doing that on a sequencing platform that's owned by Pacific Biosciences.

It's a long read sequencing technology that allows us to look at the entire gene, more than 1,500 base pairs.

So you can also do V4.

So there's nine hypervariable regions.

And if you really want to identify what species are there, At a minimum, you need to do that sometimes like for things like anthrax you need plasma genes or whatever, but 16 s is has been developed as a marker gene.

course,

Can you kind of walk me through that, what it is?

Yes, definitely.

So the yeah, it's something that really people didn't think about much about before, like 20 years ago and just barely at the beginning then.

And so the gut microbiome is really like an ecosystem.

That lives inside us, and so you know yeah we think about like our food goes through and it comes out right and along the way, there are all these.

bacteria and other microbes that are found along our GI tract, I mean less of the stomach, but we all know about helicobacter right like that's part of the stomach microbiome.

And these bacteria actually serve important roles.

Is that something I know that you said in the beginning of our conversation, is that something you created or is that something that you just figured out how to do on your own?