Company Announcements

SYGNIS announced in December 2015 a US distribution agreement with Lucigen focused on single-cell amplification for NGS in the clinical oncology research market.

In January, NRGene signed a comarketing agreement with Illumina to promote its de novo assembly informatics solution exclusively using Illumina technology.

PierianDX closed a $9.3 million Series A financing, led by Health Catalyst Capital Management.

Rubicon Genomics sales rose 40% in 2015, and it named Delonix Healthcare as a distributor for India and Biocena as a distributor for Poland.

Rubicon Genomics announced a distribution agreement with Beckman Coulter Life Sciences for its ThruPLEX Plasma-seq kits for research applications.

In January, DNAnexus integrated its cloud-based genomics platform with Sapio Sciences’ Exemplar NGS Laboratory LIMS.

In February, QIAGEN announced an agreement enabling its CLC Genomics Workbench users to access and integrate CosmosID’s metagenomics analysis platform.

BC Platforms and Nexus Personalized Health Technologies announced an agreement to create a joint translational research–driven offering connecting genetic and clinical patient information.

Under a collaboration and comarketing partnership, Silicon Biosystems Menarini will develop new workflows focused on translational medicine that combine its DEPArray System with Swift Biosciences’ NGS technology, enabling oncology research to fully access genomic information from FFPE tissue samples.

Invivoscribe announced a long-term strategic collaboration agreement with Thermo Fisher Scientific to develop multiple NGS-based IVD oncology tests on the Ion PGM Dx System for applications in liquid biopsies.

Illumina announced a partnership with Genomics England under which it will develop interpretation and reporting tools for the 100,000 Genomes Project.

Product Introductions

ArcherDX and Horizon Discovery launched in January the Archer SureShot ALK, RET, ROS1 Fusion Control for NGS.

Clontech Laboratories introduced the SMARTer Human TCR a/b Profiling Kit for human T cell receptor repertoire analysis. It works with mRNA.

LifeMap Sciences released the TGex (Translational Genomics Expert) integrated NGS analysis platform, developed in partnership with Toldot Genetics.

Oracle Health Sciences launched the Healthcare Precision Medicine software solution to connect genetic testing, report generation and clinical care decision making.

QIAGEN released more than 170 new QIAseq Targeted RNA Panels for NGS gene expression profiling.