Newton, MA – Recombinant Data Corp., a Massachusetts-based healthcare data warehousing and clinical intelligence solutions provider, today announced its continued contributions to innovative IT tools for clinical research, through the company’s key role in the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Million Veteran Program (MVP). Under the leadership of VA’s Office of Research and Development, Recombinant […]

LEXINGTON, Mass. – RainDance Technologies, Inc., the leading provider of microdroplet-based single molecule and single cell analysis solutions, today announced the appointment of Andy Watson to its executive leadership team as Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. In this role, Mr. Watson will lead the company’s global marketing and strategy efforts to grow the current […]

NEW YORK – A revolutionary way of using a next generation sequencing platform enables us to identify and describe whole populations of bacteria in areas of the body such as the genital tract according to an article in the newly released June issue of leading journal, Systems Biology in Reproductive Medicine. The new strategy for […]

BOZEMAN, Mont. & HOUSTON – Though two of the best-known methods for analyzing rare variants in sequencing data were published in 2008 and 2010, they have never been available to the public as a supported package. Baylor College of Medicine and Golden Helix announce the availability of the Combined Multivariate and Collapsing (CMC) and the […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Complete Genomics Inc. (Nasdaq:GNOM), a complete human genome sequencing company that has developed and commercialized an innovative DNA sequencing platform, announced today an expansion of its collaboration with Erasmus University Medical Center (Erasmus MC), based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. This agreement calls for Complete Genomics to sequence 250 DNA samples for […]

MADISON, Wisconsin – DNASTAR® announced the release of SeqMan NGen software for the Linux operating system today. This powerful DNA sequence assembly tool is now available on Linux, Windows and Macintosh operating systems. SeqMan NGen is the most powerful next-generation sequence assembly software available in the market and can assemble a whole human genome using […]

Menlo Park, Calif. and New York, N.Y. – Mount Sinai School of Medicine (Mount Sinai) and Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc. (NASDAQ: PACB) announced a bi-coastal collaboration to advance clinical research through the Mount Sinai Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology to be led by Eric E. Schadt, Ph.D. The Institute is the hub of […]

AARHUS, Denmark – This week, in an independent experiment, Dr. Nick Loman from the University of Birmingham, looked at de novo assembly of E.coli data from a single run with approximately 10x coverage from Ion Torrent’s Personal Genome Machine (PGM™). The experiment compares several commercial and open source de novo assemblers, and in this experiment […]

HOPKINTON, Mass. – Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ: CALP) today announced a partnership with The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC), a leading high throughput sequencing and analysis center based in Norwich, UK establishing TGAC as a National Reference Site. TGAC will implement Caliper’s NGS Bundle, which includes the Sciclone NGS Workstation, LabChip GX, and LabChip XT, […]