The Genome Center at Washington University Scales-Up on Illumina Sequencers

Center Announces Plan to Acquire 21 Additional Genome Analyzers SAN DIEGO--Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN - News) announced today that it has reached an agreement in principle for the Genome Center at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis to acquire 21 genome analyzers over the next several months to support the Center’s expanding research initiatives. [...]

Gyros appoints Erik Walldén as CEO

The instrument company Gyros® AB (Gyros), based in Uppsala, Sweden, has appointed Erik Walldén as President and CEO. He will replace Lars Eric Utterman, who will join the board of Gyros after a successful year as acting CEO. Erik Walldén will assume his new role on March 1, 2009. He has extensive experience within the [...]

Agilent Technologies Introduces Target Enrichment Platform that Removes Major Bottleneck from Next-Generation DNA Sequencing

Agilent Technologies, Inc. (NYSE:A) chose the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) meeting to introduce the Agilent SureSelect Target Enrichment System, a unique tool for greatly streamlining DNA-sequencing research by enabling scientists to sequence only genomic areas of interest with next-generation sequencing instrumentation. The Agilent SureSelect Target Enrichment System will initially be available for [...]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Extends X-ray Spectrometry Petrochemical Solutions With New Demonstration Laboratory and Web Portal

ECUBLENS, Switzerland, (February 5, 2009) - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announces a series of X-ray solutions and resources targeted towards the petrochemical industry. The offerings include a comprehensive and versatile portfolio of X-ray spectrometry equipment, combined with the opening of a new state-of-the-art demonstration laboratory in the U.S. [...]

Applied Biosystems Collaborates With Leading Medical Institution to Study Mechanisms of Cancer Development Using SOLiD System

A team of researchers from the Mayo Clinic today announced preliminary data that demonstrates the advantages of sequencing-based approaches for associating structural variants with RNA expression profiles to identify potential biomarkers in head and neck cancer. The data is the result of an ongoing scientific collaboration formed in 2008 between the Mayo Clinic and Applied [...]

Sciformatix Corporation and E&K Scientific Announce Partnership

LOS GATOS, Calif., Feb 05, 2009 -- Sciformatix Corporation, a pioneer in Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) delivered via the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model, today announced that the company has entered into a partnership with E&K Scientific, the premier provider of laboratory supplies and instrumentation to academic, biotech and pharmaceutical research laboratories. Under terms of the [...]

Applied Biosystems Awards Genomic Research Grant to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

Researchers Will Use SOLiD 3 System to Conduct Whole Genome Re-sequencing to Detect Genetic Alterations in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia CARLSBAD, Calif.--Applied Biosystems, a division of Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ:LIFE - News), today announced the recipient of its “What Would You Do With a $10K Genome” grant program. This program was created to inspire new scientific [...]

CLC Bio Launches Largest Software Update to Date and Now Includes Gene Expression Analyses

CLC bio just launched major updates to all their workbenches, resulting in the largest software update in the company's history. Other than a wide range of new features and improvements within sequence analysis, CLC bio’s two top software products CLC Main Workbench and CLC Genomics Workbench now supports a full workflow in analysis of both [...]

Illumina Presents Development Roadmap for Scaling its Genome Analyzer

Innovations to substantially increase output, decrease cost, and expand applications SAN DIEGO--Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN - News) unveiled a development roadmap for its Genome Analyzer system that charts a path to generate greater than 95 Gigabases of high quality data per run in 2009. This roadmap, which was presented at a user-group meeting at this week’s [...]

GeneCore Facility at the EMBL Purchases Genomatix’ Next Generation Sequencing Data Analysis Systems

Thorough tests with real life data let EMBL go for Genomatix Munich, Germany and Heidelberg, Germany - February 4, 2009 - Genomatix Software, a leading provider of complete solutions for the analysis of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) data, announced today that the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) installed a Genomatix Mining Station and a Genomatix [...]

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