Platform

Reading the genome as a whole

Every tumor genome carries genome-wide structural patterns that conventional single-gene tests discard. TESA Research's platform was built to discern them.

The core idea

Beyond the single gene

Most biomarkers read one gene: a narrow view. But cancer behavior emerges from interactions across the genome. We define a tumor by its whole genomic architecture: the position and type of every event, read together with molecular data.

Conventional

Single-gene tests

One variant is measured; everything else in the genome is ignored. Useful, but blind to the larger structure that shapes tumor behavior.

The biology

Cancer as a network

Genes act in concert. Disease course and drug response are properties of the network, not of any single node within it.

The TESA Research view

Whole genomic architecture

We read the tumor genome as a pattern: where every event occurs and what kind it is, integrated with molecular and clinical data.

How it works

Multi-omic in, actionable subgroups out

The output of our platform is not a score, it's a set of tumor subgroups. Each is defined by a reproducible genomic architecture implicating a biological process which ties to prognosis and likely therapy response.

Platform-agnostic inputs

Cytogenetic and structural data, sequence and expression data, and clinical outcomes, from any platform, liquid or tumor biopsy.

Neural-network pattern encoding

Our proprietary encoding preserves the location and type of genomic events which are often discarded by other methods.

Subgroup discovery

The model surfaces biologically coherent, reproducible tumor subgroups tied to disease states, prognosis, and drug response.

DNA-only classification

The expensive multi-omic work happens once, in training. Classifying each new patient requires only DNA.

Validation

Demonstrated across multiple cancer types

Working with leading academic collaborators, we have identified statistically significant prognostic and predictive signatures across multiple cancer types, including colorectal cancer, breast cancer, brain tumors, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, and pediatric Ewing sarcoma.

Colorectal cancer Breast cancer Brain tumors CLL Pediatric Ewing sarcoma
Why it matters

Prognostic tells you how aggressive the disease is. Predictive tells you who benefits from therapy. Our signatures do both.