SAN DIEGO — Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced its financial results for the second quarter of 2012. Second quarter 2012 results: • Revenue of $281 million, a 2% decrease compared to $287 million in the second quarter of 2011. • GAAP net income for the quarter of $23 million, or $0.18 per diluted share, compared […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW and REDWOOD CITY, Calif. —— Complete Genomics Inc. (NASDAQ: GNOM) and Ingenuity® Systems Inc. today announced that Complete Genomics will bundle the Ingenuity Variant Analysis application with its research whole genome sequencing services. This bundled solution will enable research customers to rapidly analyze and interpret biologically relevant genetic variations and provide researchers with […]

CARLSBAD, Calif., — Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE ) today announced a collaboration with the Southern African Treatment and Resistance Network (SATuRN — https://www.bioafrica.net/saturn) on sequencing-based diagnostics for HIV-infected individuals in Africa. Antiretroviral (ARV) drugs are becoming increasingly available in the developing world, due to facilitation by both governmental and non-governmental organizations, as well as […]

Oxford Gene Technology (OGT), provider of innovative clinical genetics and diagnostic solutions to advance molecular medicine, announced today that its next generation sequencing service team has been awarded two EU- funded clinical research grants worth €3 million. OGT will be providing genomic analysis and commercialisation services for two key international studies, EUCLIDS and PATHSEEK. EUCLIDS […]

MENLO PARK, Calif., — Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (Nasdaq:PACB), provider of the PacBio® RS High Resolution Genetic Analyzer, today announced the appointment of David Botstein, Ph.D., Director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics and Anthony B. Evnin Professor of Genomics at Princeton University, to its Board of Directors. Dr. Botstein has served in […]

MENLO PARK, Calif., and LEUVEN, Belgium–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (NASDAQ:PACB) provider of the PacBio® RS High Resolution Genetic Analyzer and Belgium-based nanoelectronics research center imec today announced a multi-year research collaboration focused on the development of advanced microchips for highly multiplexed single molecule genetic analysis. This research and development project will build […]

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that the University of Liverpool’s Centre for Genomic Research has become the UK’s first Certified Service Provider for the Agilent SureSelect Target Enrichment System for next-generation sequencing. The CGR has been conducting research at the leading edge of genomic technologies and data analysis in Liverpool, England, for over […]

SAN DIEGO– In a paper published today in Nature Biotechnology, researchers at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Institute for Human Genetics and Cardiovascular Research Institute demonstrated the utility of the Irys™ platform from BioNano Genomics for structural variation analysis and de novo assembly of next generation sequencing (NGS) data. Using Irys, the authors […]