When your mission and personal safety depend on your understanding of the potential biothreats present in an operational environment, you need a simple-to-use tool that delivers clear answers, quickly. While there are many tactical biological surveillance tools capable of identifying known threats, FFBS arms the operator with the ability to collect, prepare, sequence, and report biological threat agents across a broad spectrum, whether the agent is known or unknown.
The FFBS Difference
Signature Science has optimized our innovative bioinformatics software tools to run on the small, portable, battery-powered FFBS sequencing and analysis console. The ruggedized console includes an integrated docking station for the sequencer, a computing device with GPU for onboard base calling, bioinformatic threat analysis software, a custom-tailored threat database, and a graphical user interface for communicating sequencing information, and alarm status. If FFBS determines a biological is present, it also provides details about the identified targets including common name, type, threat level, and basic information on transmission and symptoms. The FFBS components are packaged within a lightweight, ruggedized field kit that provides all the tools necessary to perform on-target sample preparation and on-the-move sequencing.
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Quality Assurance Biologist, Deputy Program Manager