MENLO PARK, Calif., Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (NASDAQ: PACB), provider of Single Molecule Real Time (SMRT®) sequencing products, today announced it has released a major upgrade to its PacBio® RS system, referred to as “C2”, including new chemistry, enhanced SMRT Cells and upgraded software, which together provide customers with significant performance increases for DNA […]
Today European scientists are meeting to kick off the 4DCellFate project, funded by the European Commission under the FP7 program. The 4DcellFate project will tackle the question of how the Polycomb Repressive Complex (PRC) and Nucleosome Remodelling and histone Deacetylase (NuRD) complexes function across the genome and time during differentiation, by applying cutting- edge technologies, […]
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Genomics Inc. (NASDAQ: GNOM) announced today that it has been selected by Mayo Clinic’s Center for Individualized Medicine to provide outsourced whole human genome sequencing. Mayo Clinic researchers will now be able to employ Complete Genomics’ sequencing service for some of its large-scale whole genome sequencing projects. The Center for Individualized Medicine […]
CLC bio and VIB, a life sciences research institute in Flanders, Belgium, announced the signing of an academic regional site license agreement for CLC bio’s sequence analysis software CLC DNA Workbench. The software will be used across academic institutions in the Flanders region in Belgium, including Universiteit Gent, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, University of Antwerp, and […]
Appistry, Inc., the world’s best company at solving complex, data intensive problems, today announced the formation of a Scientific and Technology Advisory Board to support the company’s development and commercialization of next-generation technologies for advanced data management. The advisory board includes leading influencers with extensive technical credibility and perspectives across disciplines as diverse as bioinformatics, […]
BRANFORD, Connecticut, Roche and the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Washington, DC announced today a collaboration agreement to use Roche’s GS Junior benchtop sequencing system for research in SCBI’s Center for Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics. SCBI’s state-of-the-art genetics laboratory, based at the National Zoo in Washington, DC, will house the next-generation sequencing instrument and will […]
MENLO PARK, Calif. – Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc., provider of Single Molecule Real Time (SMRT®) sequencing products, today announced that DNA Link, Inc. is the first commercial service provider for PacBio®RS sequencing in Asia and the first PacBio RS installation in Korea. The deal was brokered by the company’s new distributor for Korea, MDxK […]
Basel, Roche released the following statement in response to the announcement by Illumina, Inc. that its Board of Directors has recommended that shareholders not tender their shares to Roche. On January 27, 2012, Roche commenced a tender offer to purchase all outstanding shares of Illumina for $44.50 per share in cash, or an aggregate of […]
SAN DIEGO, Illumina, Inc., a leading developer, manufacturer, and marketer of life science tools and integrated systems for the analysis of genetic variation and function, today announced that its Board of Directors thoroughly reviewed Roche’s unsolicited tender offer with the assistance of its financial and legal advisors and unanimously determined that the $44.50 per share […]
WALNUT CREEK, CA, Genome Designs, Inc. today announced that it has received seed financing from undisclosed private investors and started operation. Founded by veterans of Argonne National Lab, NCBI, Integrated Genomics and Ariadne, the company is taking on the challenge of functional annotation of the next-generation sequencing projects for the life science community. “Our long-term […]
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