GnuBIO, Inc. (GnuBIO), www.gnubio.com a pioneer in the Desktop DNA sequencing market, announced today that it has shipped an Early Access system to the Université de Montréal Pharmacogenomics Centre at the Montreal Heart Institute, where the system was used to accurately sequence a blinded cohort of clinical cardiomyopathy samples. The GnuBIO system will allow researchers […]
DANVERS, MASS. – Beckman Coulter Genomics today announced a completely automated, high-capacity, target capture sequencing service that delivers quality sequencing data and streamlines sample preparation for targeted next generation sequencing. Utilizing Agilent SureSelect Target Enrichment technology with the Beckman Coulter SPRIworks Fragment Library System for automated library construction and the Biomek Laboratory Automation Workstation for […]
Branford, CT – 454 Life Sciences, a center of excellence of Roche’s (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) business unit Applied Science, and developer of the innovative GS Junior and GS FLX+ Systems for high-throughput DNA sequencing, announced that effective August 1, 2011, Dr. Thomas Schinecker is appointed Lifecycle Leader for Sequencing and President of 454 […]
SAN DIEGO – Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced that the company has been selected as a preferred service provider for Cancer Research UK, the world’s leading cancer charity. Illumina will provide a range of services, beginning with whole human genome sequencing, in support of the International Cancer Genome Consortium. The consortium is seeking to obtain […]
SAN DIEGO – Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced availability of its new TruSeq Custom Enrichment kits which enable researchers to economically design and target genomic regions of interest ranging from 700 kilobases (Kb) to 15 megabases (Mb) of cumulative DNA. The TruSeq Custom Enrichment kits leverage the same underlying assay design as Illumina’s TruSeq Exome […]
Madison, WI, USA – Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) and Caliper Life Sciences , Inc. (NASDAQ: CALP) today announced a co-marketing agreement for the development and optimization of automated protocols for the NimbleGen SeqCap EZ Library solution-based capture method for Caliper’s Sciclone NGS Workstation. The collaboration aims to simplify high throughput targeted resequencing workflows […]
CARLSBAD, Calif. – Ion Torrent, a unit of Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ: LIFE), today announced that it is shipping its new 100 Mb Ion 316? chip, which has tenfold more throughput than the original Ion 314? chip, and that its 1 Gb Ion 318? chip will be available in the fourth quarter. These three chips […]
Petaluma, CA – Eurofins MWG Operon has opened a new DNA sequencing facility in the San Francisco area. The new facility, located in the city of Petaluma, just north of San Francisco, will provide overnight Sanger DNA sequencing services to the SF Bay Area and next day service to the western United States. “Strong growth […]
SAN DIEGO – Sequenom, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQNM), a life sciences company providing innovative genetic analysis solutions, today announced it has signed a three-year supply agreement with Illumina, Inc., a leading developer and manufacturer of life sciences tools for the large-scale analysis of genetic variation and function. Under the terms of the agreement, Sequenom and its […]
BEIJING and WOBURN, Mass. – BGI (Beijing Genomics Institute) and Covaris, Inc. today announced a deal that will integrate Covaris’ Adaptive Focused Acoustics™ AFA™ DNA shearing technology across several BGI laboratories in China. BGI will utilize the Covaris LE220 parallel processing, multi-sample platform to fragment DNA samples for Next-Generation Sequencing. “BGI will use Covaris instrumentation […]
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