—Sales of Rubicon’s DNA Library Preparation Kits Rose 43% in First Half of 2016 as New Products Continued to Gain Traction—

—ThruPLEX Tag-seq Kits Convert DNA into Molecularly Tagged Libraries Optimized for Low Frequency Allele Detection on Illumina® NGS Platforms

Ann Arbor, MI – Rubicon Genomics, Inc., a leading provider of pre-analytical library preparation kits that increase the accuracy, efficiency and speed of genomic analysis, today reported that its product sales increased 43% in the first half of 2016 compared to the first half of 2015. Separately, the company announced an Early Access Program for its new ThruPLEX® Tag-seq Kits.

ThruPLEX Tag-seq was developed to enable detection of low-frequency alleles with greater confidence. It combines molecular tags with Rubicon’s proprietary ThruPLEX chemistry to remove library and sequencing amplification errors. ThruPLEX Tag-seq creates molecularly tagged and sample-indexed libraries for sequencing on Illumina® NGS