Company Announcements

GenoLogics was selected by Illumina in September as the preferred LIMS provider to support HiSeq X Ten sequencing-system customers.

Nabsys named Steve Lombardi as president and CEO in September.

Sunquest Information Systems and Partners Healthcare established a strategic alliance that includes a strategic investment by Sunquest in GeneInsight.

SeqLL, which offers Helicos’ sequencing technology, closed a $1 million Series A funding round in September.

Convey Computer agreed to distribute Bluebee’s Genome Analytics solution.

Product Introductions

In September, Tecan launched the Freedom EVO NGS workstation to simplify next-generation sequencing (NGS) and PCR setup.

Clontech Laboratories introduced the DNA SMART ChIP-Seq Kit for use with low-input samples, including both dsDNA and ssDNA templates.

Fluidigm released a Single-Cell Whole Exome Sequencing workflow for its C1 Single-Cell Auto Prep System.

In October, Enzymatics released the Archer Analysis Pipeline v3.0.

Omicia launched Opal Clinical software for diagnostics-testing organizations.

Reprogenetics signed a collaboration agreement with Illumina making it Illumina’s preferred partner for the R&D of IVF-related sequencing technologies.

NextCODE Health launched the NextCODE Exchange, a genomic-data analysis and collaboration service.

Lab7 Systems launched its Enterprise Sequencing Platform for sample-to-answer data management, which combines all of the functional elements of data workflow with a data-resource manager.

WaferGen Bio-systems introduced an automated solution for Agilent Technologies’ Sure SelectXT Target Enrichment workflow on its Apollo 324 sample-preparations system.

GENALICE launched the VAULT, an all-in-one appliance for NGS data processing.

For use with its cloud-based Analytic Platform, Maverix Biomics introduced kits for analyzing variants.

Thermo Fisher Scientific released a new enzyme intended to enhance SNP, and insertion and deletion performance on the Ion PGM System.

Sales/Orders of Note

The US Department of Veterans Affairs awarded Bina Technologies a $1 million contract for whole-genome, whole-exome and SNP chip DNA data analysis as part of its Million Veteran Program.