Researchers Will Use SOLiD 3 System to Conduct Whole Genome Re-sequencing to Detect Genetic Alterations in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia CARLSBAD, Calif.–Applied Biosystems, a division of Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ:LIFE – News), today announced the recipient of its “What Would You Do With a $10K Genome” grant program. This program was created to inspire new scientific […]

A team of researchers from the Mayo Clinic today announced preliminary data that demonstrates the advantages of sequencing-based approaches for associating structural variants with RNA expression profiles to identify potential biomarkers in head and neck cancer. The data is the result of an ongoing scientific collaboration formed in 2008 between the Mayo Clinic and Applied […]

Innovations to substantially increase output, decrease cost, and expand applications SAN DIEGO–Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN – News) unveiled a development roadmap for its Genome Analyzer system that charts a path to generate greater than 95 Gigabases of high quality data per run in 2009. This roadmap, which was presented at a user-group meeting at this week’s […]

Thorough tests with real life data let EMBL go for Genomatix Munich, Germany and Heidelberg, Germany – February 4, 2009 – Genomatix Software, a leading provider of complete solutions for the analysis of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data, announced today that the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) installed a Genomatix Mining Station and a Genomatix […]

Helicos BioSciences (Nasdaq:HLCS) today announced significant improvements in the performance of the Helicos™ Genetic Analysis System, available immediately for customers. With these improvements, the system is generating 20 to 30 Gigabases (GB) of high-quality sequence data per run, an output equivalent to the sequencing of 7 to 10 human genomes per run. This new performance […]

Roche NimbleGen and 454 Life Sciences are capturing the targeted resequencing market as researchers in laboratories worldwide adopt the NimbleGen Sequence Capture microarrays and the Genome Sequencer FLX System to speed sample preparation and subsequent sequencing for research on genetic-based diseases such as cancer and diabetes. Targeted resequencing allows scientists to capture only the regions […]

In an effort to determine the influence of viral pathogens in declining coral health, researchers at San Diego State University recently used metagenomic analysis with the Genome Sequencer System from 454 Life Sciences to sequence Porites compressa coral samples under varying environmental stressors. The purpose of the study, led by Dr. Forest Rohwer, was to […]

Munich, Germany and Ann Arbor, MI, USA, Jan 28 , 2009 Genomatix Software announced today that is has joined the Illumina-Connect program, linking them to the ongoing Illumina program and working with them to develop new tools and applications for Illumina-generated data. Klaus May, Chief Business Officer for Genomatix Software in Munich, Germany commented: “As […]

CLC bio has just released version 3.0 of their highly popular solution for analyzing and visualizing Next Generation Sequencing data, CLC Genomics Workbench. The new version is crammed with new and powerful features, like digital gene expression, expression analysis of micro arrays and RNA-seq data – and an overhauled long reads assembler which is up […]

(NASDAQ:LIFE) announced today that a jury in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California rendered a verdict in its favor in its patent-infringement dispute with Illumina, Inc. In this dispute, Illumina alleged that the SOLiD™ sequencing system commercialized by Applied Biosystems, a subsidiary of Life Technologies, infringed three patents, namely U.S. Patent […]