Scientists at deCODE Genetics and academic collaborators from Iceland, The Netherlands, Spain, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, the USA, the UK and Romania today report the discovery of a variant in the sequence of the human genome associated with risk of developing basal cell carcinoma of the skin (BCC), as well as prostate cancer and glioma, the […]
A team of researchers from Roche, including scientists from Roche Pharma Research and Early Development and Roche NimbleGen, reported in Genome Research (1) that they have generated the first draft genome sequence of the cynomolgus monkey (Macaca fascicularis) and developed a novel microarray design for in depth expression profiling for use in preclinical drug safety […]
LEXINGTON, Mass. – RainDance Technologies, Inc., the Digital Biology™ company, today announced that Ambry Genetics has purchased the company’s new ThunderStorm™ System for genetic testing and next-generation targeted sequencing services. Launching next month, RainDance’s ThunderStorm System is a fully-automated and walkaway high-throughput targeted sequencing solution that enables researchers to process 96 samples per day on […]
MENLO PARK, Calif.–Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (NASDAQ: PACB), provider of Single Molecule Real Time (SMRT®) sequencing products, announced today that the company has partnered with Cycle Computing to optimize the PacBio RS SMRT Analysis software for the cloud. Preliminary demonstrations of the solution will be presented this week by Cycle Computing at the Bio-IT […]
ST. LOUIS–Partek Incorporated, a global leader in bioinformatics software, announced today their receipt of the Most Creative Algorithm award, Commercial category, in the Illumina Data Excellence Award (iDEA) challenge for innovation in genomic data visualization and algorithmic analysis. According to the judges, Partek was awarded the prestigious award for their entire, comprehensive start-to-finish data analysis […]
ROCKVILLE, Md.–Axeq Technologies announced the industry-first Axeq Turnkey Discovery analytical bioinformatic services coupled with high-coverage exome sequencing applications. The fully-integrated sequencing and analysis services enable researchers to perform exome sequencing and determine putative genetic variant candidates within a few weeks. The Turnkey Discovery processes are categorized into specific modules, and are applicable to a variety […]
PROVIDENCE, R.I.–NABsys, Inc., developers of solid-state electronic systems for single-molecule DNA sequencing and analysis, has closed a $10 million venture capital round. This recent Series C Preferred Stock financing was led by Stata Venture Partners and brings the total of funds raised since April 2009 to over $21 million. This new financing will be used […]
Granada and Madrid, Spain and Philadelphia, U.S.A. – Integromics (R), a market leader in IT solutions provision for life sciences in the field of genomics and proteomics, today announces the release of the second version of SeqSolve (TM), its analytical solution for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data. The latest version of Integromics’ SeqSolve features custom […]
BERLIN–During a visit today to the Max Delbrück Center of Molecular Medicine in Berlin-Buch (MDC), German Chancellor Angela Merkel started up the newly installed PacBio RS, the single molecule, real-time (SMRT™) DNA sequencing system from Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (NASDAQ: PACB). PacBio Scientific Fellow Dr. Jonas Korlach, co-inventor of the technology and a native […]
WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. & SHENZHEN, China–(EON: Enhanced Online News)–Merck (NYSE:MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, and BGI, the world’s largest genomics center, announced today that they have established a collaboration to focus on the discovery and development of biomarkers and genomic technologies. Under the agreement scientists from Merck and BGI will […]
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