Company Announcements

In October, Horizon Discovery announced that Swift Biosciences will incorporate its HDx Quantitative Multiplex Reference Standards into the Accel-Amplicon 56G Oncology Panel.

Rubicon Genomics named Eurofins Genomics as a US distributor of its DNA library preparation products.

Agilent Technologies named the Australian Genome Research Facility as a Certified Service Provider for NGS.

Under a comarketing agreement, GenomOncology’s GO Clinical Workbench now supports interpretation of multiple ArcherDX assays.

LifeMap Science and Lab7 Systems integrated their respective VarElect platform and Enterprise Science Platform’s DNA sequencing analysis outputs and reports.

In November, Thermo Fisher Scientific announced a collaborative partnership with Singapore General Hospital aimed at identifying cancer genetic mutations linked with Asian populations using the Ion Torrent platform.

Almac Diagnostics announced a collaboration with Illumina to establish a framework for NGS assays using Illumina’s MiSeqDx system.

Illumina announced a partnership with the Hartwell Autism Research and Technology Initiative for genomic analysis of autism spectrum disorder. Illumina BaseSpace, which is powered by Amazon Web Services, will be used as the data analysis and management platform.

In November, N-of-One announced an agreement with WuXi NextCODE to provide clinical and scientific evidence for delivering personalized treatment options based on the results of WuXi’s tumor-normal genome sequencing interpretation.

Donald W. Grimm resigned from HTG Molecular Diagnostics’ Board in November.

Product Introductions

In November, QIAGEN released enhancements to its Clinical Insight clinical decision support solution, adding leukemia and lymphoma testing, as well as testing for hereditary cancer indications.

QIAGEN introduced the GeneReader NGS System for the end-to-end NGS workflow from primary sample to final report. The first application is QIAGEN’s Actionable Insights Tumor Panel, targeting 12 clinically actionable genes. It can detect up to 1,250 different genetic mutations in tumor samples.

Dolomite launched the Single Cell RNA-Seq Chip for the creation of single-cell libraries. It processes 1 mL samples in approximately 12 hours.

Sapio Sciences released Exemplar NGS LIMS 2.0, with optional deployment in the cloud.

Integrated DNA Technologies launched the xGen Exome Research Panel v1.0, featuring 429,826 probes for coverage of 19,396 genes.