MENLO PARK, Calif. — Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc., (Nasdaq:PACB) provider of the PacBio® RS II Sequencing System, today announced that the company has launched a Certified Service Provider (CSP) program and added new informatics partners to meet the increasing demand for Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT®) Sequencing and data analysis worldwide. The PacBio CSP program […]

CLEVELAND — GenomOncology LLC announced today that Children’s National Health System has launched a clinical sequencing program that is utilizing GenomOncology’s GO Clinical Workbench™. The workflow of the GO Clinical Workbench has been extended to address the needs of the constitutional pediatrics market. Seeing the need to internalize testing, Dr. Sean Hofherr, Director of Molecular […]

HILDEN, Germany, and REDWOOD CITY, California -– QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt Prime Standard: QIA) today announced a commercial agreement with GATC Biotech to provide GATC clients full access to QIAGEN’s Ingenuity® Variant AnalysisTM solution for analysis and interpretation of genetic data. GATC is one of Europe’s leading providers of DNA and RNA sequencing services […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that Mike McMullen, president and chief operating officer of the company, has been elected chief executive officer by its board of directors, effective immediately. His appointment is part of Agilent’s previously announced CEO transition plan. McMullen succeeds William (Bill) Sullivan, who becomes a company […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that Daniel K. Podolsky, M.D., president of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, has been appointed to the company’s board of directors, effective in July. Dr. Podolsky’s appointment increases Agilent’s board to 10 members. “We are very pleased to welcome Dr. Podolsky to […]

PROVO, Utah and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — DNAnexus, a pioneer in cloud-based genome informatics and data management, and Tute Genomics, a leading genome annotation and interpretation platform, today announced an integrated solution for genomic data management. Customers will be able to access the Tute platform and DNAnexus pipelines from either company’s cloud environment. DNAnexus provides […]

Boston, MA -– Cartagenia, leader in providing clinical genetics and pathology labs with variant assessment & reporting support software, today announced a partnership with Lexington, MA-based N-of-One, an industry-leading provider of patient-specific Clinical Interpretation for molecular profiles at the disease, gene and variant level. With the availability of N-of-One’s services from within the Bench Lab […]

Framingham, MA — SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, today announced collaborators in the OneOmics™ project, an exclusive partnership between Illumina and SCIEX that integrates SWATH™ Acquisition based next-generation proteomics (NGP) and next-generation sequencing (NGS) data on the BaseSpace® cloud computing environment. Advaita Bioinformatics, The Institute for Systems Biology (ISB) and researchers […]

Boston, MA -– Cartagenia, leader in providing clinical genetics and pathology labs with variant assessment & reporting support software, today announced it is releasing an upgrade of its Bench Lab NGS software platform. The platform now enables labs to implement the recently released ACMG/AMP recommendations for standards and guidelines on the interpretation of sequence variants. […]

HARDERWIJK, the Netherlands and SEOUL, South Korea – Today, biomedical big data solutions company GENALICE and Personalized medicine & biotechnology company Macrogen Inc (CEO Hyonyong Chong) jointly announced that Macrogen has chosen GENALICE MAP to reinforce its big data processing and analysis capacity for large-scale genome analysis and clinical sequencing services. GENALICE MAP is a […]