San Francisco Bay Area, CA — Real Time Genomics, Inc., the genome analytics company, today announced that it had secured a $5mm investment to fund the expansion of commercial operations. The company also disclosed that two leading genome research centers at Stanford University have purchased the company’s genome analysis platform. Researchers at the Center for […]

Menlo Park, CA – Personalis announced today that it has successfully completed Illumina CSPro™ certification for sequencing on HiSeq and MiSeq, gaining entry to an elite group of Illumina genomics service providers globally. Illumina Inc., a San Diego-based company, provides leading-edge genetic analysis tools to genomics centers worldwide. Illumina CSPro is the collaborative service provider […]

Matsudo, Japan,- Precision System Science, Co., Ltd. (PSS) has received a termination letter from Roche regarding the agreement that was concluded in December, 2012 to develop and manufacture a fully automated emulsion PCR instrument for next-generation sequencing (NGS) platforms. PSS understands this action taken by Roche is in line with the announced reorganization related to […]

Austin, TX — Bioo Scientific introduces the NEXTflex™ qRNA-Seq™ Kit for high precision gene expression analysis by RNA-Seq. Developed in conjunction with Cellular Research Inc., this new kit efficiently generates libraries equivalent to conventional RNA-Seq libraries, but with the added feature of Molecular Indexing™ technology. Similar to conventional RNA-Seq, sample RNA is converted to cDNA […]

Woburn, MA– PathoGenetix, Inc. announced today that it has received the first of six “alpha” prototypes for its new rapid bacterial serotyping and strain typing system, and has begun internal testing of the instrument performance to specifications. Called the RESOLUTION™ Microbial Genotyping System, the fully automated system includes the instrument, bioinformatics software and database, and […]

MENLO PARK, Calif. — Researchers from Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc., (Nasdaq:PACB), the U.S. Joint Genome Institute and the University of Washington have published a new method for assembling high-quality genomes from Single Molecule, Real-Time (SMRT®) DNA sequencing. Published in the May 5 edition of Nature Methods, the paper by Chin et al. describes the […]

MADISON, Wisconsin – DNASTAR® announced the release of Lasergene 11 today. The major news in this release is that Lasergene, the most published sequence analysis software in peer reviewed journals for each of the past 28 years, is now available on the Amazon Cloud. Other significant improvements to Lasergene, which is an integrated suite of […]

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – Real Time Genomics, Inc., the genome analytics company, and Knome, Inc., the human genome interpretation company, today announced that the Real Time Genomics (RTG) Variant platform will be integrated into every shipment of the knoSYS™100 interpretation system. The agreement enables customers to easily purchase the RTG analytics engine as an upgrade […]

BALTIMORE — Exemplar LIMS™ has been selected as the lab management solution for the Genomics Core Facility at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York. Sapio’s LIMS system will track multiple next-generation sequencing (NGS) platform workflows from request through secondary analysis. The Mount Sinai Genomics Core Facility is a CLIA-certified laboratory, and Exemplar LIMS […]