Astrea Forensics

Astrea Forensics is a private forensic genomics company that applies ancient DNA methods, whole-genome sequencing, and bioinformatics to highly degraded forensic samples, especially rootless hair, bone, teeth, and other low-quality materials. The company provides services to law enforcement and related investigators to generate SNP profiles for forensic investigative genetic genealogy and sample comparison when conventional forensic DNA testing is insufficient. Astrea also offers proprietary workflows, sequencing library preparation tools, and software including WOPR and AstreaImpute2 to recover usable genotype data from challenging samples. Its business is centered on solving cold cases and identifying unknown human remains rather than developing therapeutic drugs.