Genomic Medicine Institute Adds Seven Additional Illumina Genome Analyzers to Expand Capacity for Asian 100 Genome Project SEOUL, Korea–Illumina (NASDAQ:ILMN) today announced that the Genomic Medicine Institute (GMI) at Seoul National University College of Medicine in Korea, purchased seven additional Illumina Genome AnalyzerIIx sequencing systems, expanding the capacity of their recently established Asian Genome Center […]

AARHUS, Denmark–The University of Queensland and CLC bio have signed an agreement, providing each student enrolled in the university’s genetics courses with a copy of CLC Main Workbench, worth more than $2 million USD over four years. Biomedical Research Fellow at University of Queensland, Dr James Fraser, states “In many respects genetics is the nexus […]

Describes Innovative Virtual Terminator™ Nucleotides for Single Molecule Sequencing CAMBRIDGE, Mass.–Helicos BioSciences Corporation (NASDAQ: HLCS), a life science company focused on innovative genetic analysis technologies, today announced the publication of a seminal discovery in nucleotide chemistry for single molecule sequencing. The study, now appearing in the on-line edition of Nature Methods, demonstrates the synthesis and […]

Researchers to Decode Antarctic Ice Metagenome with the 454 Sequencing System, to Explore the Effects of Climate Change BRANFORD, Conn.–For many years, researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI) for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany have been studying polar and marine environments to improve our understanding of ocean-ice-atmosphere interactions and the animal and […]

The J. Craig Venter Institute improves its metagenomics annotation pipeline with high-performance computing solution from CLC bio BOSTON–The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) in Rockville, Massachusetts, has recently incorporated CLC bio’s accelerated versions of the algorithms Hmmpfam and Hmmsearch into their bioinformatics pipeline for functional annotation of proteins identified in metagenomics data. The algorithms originate […]

New Array-Based Resequencing Approach Deepens Information Content, Speeds Next-Generation Sequencing A group of researchers from the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) and Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) have developed a technique that complements massively parallel next-generation DNA sequencing, using custom microarrays to focus on genomic regions of high interest. The method, published in Nature Protocols […]

115 of the most common cancer genes are now available for HybSelect, febit’s highly automated technology for sequence capture enabling targeted Next-Generation Sequencing and biomarker discovery in a wide variety of oncology studies LEXINGTON, Mass. and HEIDELBERG, Germany, July 13 — febit holding gmbh announced today the launch of the first human cancer biochip for […]

Agilent Technologies Introduces DNA Capture Microarray to Streamline Next-Generation Sequencing Studies SANTA CLARA, Calif.–Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today introduced the SureSelect DNA Capture Array, which easily removes a major bottleneck in small-scale DNA studies by letting scientists sequence only genomic areas of interest with next-generation sequencing (NGS) instruments. Designed for smaller studies, the SureSelect DNA […]

BaseClear to Bundle Illumina Data with CLC bio’s Software for Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis AARHUS, Denmark & LEIDEN, The Netherlands–Today, the leading provider of Next Generation Sequencing analysis solutions, CLC bio, announced that the premier Dutch sequencing service center, BaseClear, will provide all customers receiving Next Generation Sequencing data with a license for CLC […]

BARCELONA–The Research Institute of the Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron (IR-HUVH) in Barcelona is the first Spanish health centre to acquire the Genome Sequencer FLX System from 454 Life Sciences, a Roche company. This new high-performance sequencing system improves the productivity and precision of genome sequencing at IR-HUVH. Multiple research projects in biomedicine conducted in the […]