News about genomics analysis tools including next generation sequencing, electrophoresis, PCR, and others
Improves accuracy, decreases steps in a microbiomic workflow NEWS PROVIDED BY Zymo Research Corp. 02 Jun, 2017, 11:05 ET SHARE THIS ARTICLE NEW ORLEANS, June 2, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — Zymo Research Corp. will introduce the newest in its line of kits for microbiomic research. The AccuBIOME™ Amplicon Sequencing Kit utilizes real-time PCR instead of regular PCR... Read more
New Ultra II technology addresses lower input amounts and challenging sample types for Illumina® next generation sequencing systems IPSWICH, Mass., May 30, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — New England Biolabs (NEB®) today announced the expansion of their NEBNext Ultra II NGS library preparation product portfolio to include kits for RNA. The strand-specific NEBNext Ultra II Directional RNA Library... Read more
San Carlos, California , May 30, 2017 NuGEN Technologies today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has issued US Patent No. US 9,650,628 describing the Single Primer Target Enrichment Technology (SPET) which enables targeted nucleic acid analysis by next generation sequencing (NGS). NuGEN offers commercial solutions using SPET to create target and strand-specific libraries... Read more
Combined Offering Provides a Comprehensive Integrated Solution For (NGS) Data Analysis And Interpretation in Healthcare And Research Finland and The Netherlands – May 29, 2017 – Today, Bluebee, a leading provider of high-performance genomics analysis and storage solutions and MediSapiens, a leading biomedical big data curation, management and interpretation company, announce a strategic partnership to provide... Read more
Clinical researchers studying germline disorders now have access to an extension of the highly referenced, Ion AmpliSeq next-generation sequencing (NGS) line of assays. The new Ion AmpliSeq On-Demand targeted sequencing panels for inherited disease research provide easy and practical design customization capabilities to lower upfront costs regardless of project size. Thermo Fisher Scientific will introduce... Read more
Companies partner to develop secure genomics informatics environment for AstraZeneca’s initiative to analyse two million genomes May 23, 2017 04:30 AM Pacific Daylight Time MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–DNAnexus, Inc., the global leader in genome informatics and data management, today announced that its secure cloud-based platform has been selected as a partner for AstraZeneca’s Centre for... Read more
New platform enables real-time collaboration for scientific workflows May 23, 2017 09:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time ASHLAND, Ore. & BOSTON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–FlowJo, LLC, a life science informatics and data analysis company with 19+ years experience in software for analyzing single-cell data, launched FlowJo Envoy, a cloud environment for the coordination of the resources, people, and data... Read more
Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, launched today a new capillary electrophoresis (CE) system designed to offer a low-throughput, cartridge-based system for Sanger sequencing and fragment analysis. For use with oncology research, genome editing, species identification, and human cell line authentication among other common applications, the Applied Biosystems™ SeqStudio™ Genetic Analyzer supports... Read more
SAN DIEGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) announced today that Mark Van Oene has been named Chief Commercial Officer. Van Oene was previously Illumina’s Senior Vice President of the Americas region and subsequently named interim Chief Commercial Officer in late 2016. “Mark is a great leader for our commercial organization, possessing deep genomics expertise and over a... Read more
MENLO PARK, Calif., May 22, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — A series of recent peer-reviewed scientific publications highlights the growing use of Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT®) Sequencing to annotate plant and animal genomes. These reports from the genomics community show that PacBio sequencing consistently detects more genes, alternative splicing events, and other important elements compared with... Read more