News about genomics analysis tools including next generation sequencing, electrophoresis, PCR, and others
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
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. , the world leader in serving science, has expanded its line of endotoxin-free plasmid DNA isolation products with the launch of the PureLink Expi Endotoxin-Free Maxi Plasmid Purification Kit. With a simple and fast protocol for isolation, the kit allows researchers to yield up to 1.5 mg of endotoxin-free, advanced transfection-quality... Read more
Eppendorf’s new Mastercycler® X50 Hamburg, May 2017 Eppendorf’s new Mastercycler® X50 accommodates PCR with outstanding speed and optimization capabilities. With heating rates of 10°C/s average, Eppendorf provides a very fast 96 well cycler compatible with standard format consumables. PCR optimization reaches a new magnitude with the innovative 2D-Gradient, which allows totally new expectations with regards... Read more
– Contributing to people’s health by promoting the spread of genetic testing equipment in the healthcare field – Tokyo, Japan, May 15, 2017, Hitachi High-Technologies Corporation (TSE: 8036, Hitachi High-Tech) agreed to start a capital and business alliance (hereinafter, “the Alliance”) with Precision System Science Co., Ltd. (PSS) relating to the genetic testing business using... Read more
Earnings Report for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2017 Read more