BEVERLY, Mass. – Sage Science, Inc. (a privately-held, MA-based company) today announced that it has signed a co-marketing agreement with Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN). Illumina and Sage have agreed to co-market the Pippin Prep system in an effort to provide automated gel technology for library size selection to Illumina sequencing customers. The Pippin Prep automates size […]

Incorporation of analytical and preparative microfluidics solutions improves data quality and simplifies next generation sequencing sample preparation HOPKINTON, Mass. – Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: CALP) today announced a co-marketing agreement with Illumina, Inc. (Nasdaq: ILMN) for Caliper’s LabChip® XT library preparation instrument and its LabChip GX analytical quality control platform. These systems are automated […]

Designed in Collaboration with Sequencing Advisory Board, New High Sensitivity DNA Assay for LabChip(R) GX Addresses Library QC Bottleneck in NGS Workflows Sciclone(R) NGS Workstation Automates Library Preparation Steps HOPKINTON, Mass. – Caliper Life Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: CALP) today announced the availability of a new, higher sensitivity DNA assay for its LabChip GX analytical platform, […]

The digital array is bridging the gap between sequencing and the array platform and can be implemented in the existing laboratory infrastructure without any need to buy new equipment. Applying the technology can dramatically speeds up the development of personalized medicine which holds the promise of delivering better healthcare to everyone at less cost. New […]

Epicentre Biotechnologies announced the availability of the new ScriptSeq™ mRNA-Seq Library Preparation Kit (Illumina-compatible). Madison, Wis. – Today, Epicentre Biotechnologies announced the availability of the new ScriptSeq™ mRNA-Seq Library Preparation Kit (Illumina-compatible). The kit uses a unique, patented terminal-tagging technology that simplifies strand-specific tagging and the preparation of directional mRNA-Seq libraries from rRNA-depleted or poly(A) […]

System Helps Search for Cancer Therapies, Drug Targets SANTA CLARA, Calif. – Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today introduced the SureSelect Kinome Target Enrichment Kit, enabling researchers to focus next-generation sequencing studies on expressed kinases (the kinome). Researchers increasingly are looking at human kinases as a rich, proven source of biomarkers as well as potential […]

Automation and the Next Generation Sequencing Workflow Agilent Automation Solutions has produced a guide to choosing the right automation instruments or instruments for your Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) workflow. Next generation sequencing has revolutionized genomics, enabling entire genomes to be sequenced more efficiently than ever before. However, the typical NGS workflow is less revolutionary, with […]

PacBio RS to support studies on rare variant, and structural variations and methylation patterns Konstanz, Germany – Within the next four years GATC Biotech plans to analyse 100,000 human genomes in particular for the pharmaceutical and diagnostic industry as well as for academic research. This will be realised by applying Illumina’s HiSeq 2000 as well […]