– New technology selected for use by multiple human and non-human genome projects

– Company to feature presentations on human and non-human projects at American Society of Human Genetics Meeting

PLEASANTON, Calif. – 10x Genomics, a company focused on improving and broadening the application of genomic information, today announced the commercial availability of their new Chromium™ De Novo Assembly Solution and the Supernova™ Assembler, making low-cost, true diploid de novo assemblies readily accessible and at scale for human and non-human applications. This method has been adopted by investigators at leading genome centers, for human and non-human genomes for agricultural and environmental applications, including the chili pepper, monk seal, spotted owl, hummingbird, komodo dragon and other genomes.

While de novo assemblies are considered the gold standard for determining an organism’s genome sequence, the cost and computational requirements necessary to undertake them have precluded th