Genomics plays key role in metabolic disease study Partek genomic analysis software recently received its six thousandth citation in the June edition of Science Translational Medicine. To celebrate, Partek reached out to the authors of the paper that brought them to this milestone: Type 2 immunity is protective in metabolic disease but exacerbates NAFLD collaboratively with TGF-β. The […]

MADISON, Wisconsin – DNASTAR® has appointed SHIPS Bioscience as a distributor of its DNA, RNA and protein sequence analysis software in Japan, effective immediately. SHIPS Bioscience is a new company devoted to meeting the life science needs of researchers throughout Japan primarily through the distribution and support of DNASTAR software.   Shinji Shimada, President of […]

SAN DIEGO — Edico Genome today announced it has signed contracts with the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for the use of its DRAGENTM(Dynamic Read Analysis for Genomics) Bio-IT platform. Continuing their initiatives to advance cancer research, NHGRI and NCI purchased Edico Genome’s DRAGEN Somatic pipeline and DRAGEN Genome pipeline, ensuring accuracy, reducing costs and accelerating […]

Smart data management for life sciences company, Eagle Genomics, has today announced it has been awarded a close to £600,000 grant from Innovate UK, the UK’s innovation agency, to support the company’s ongoing commitment to radically reduce time to insight through data science. The project which has received the grant, under the banner; ‘Increase your […]

First test for pneumonia caused by previously undetected pathogen will be available through ARUP’s established national clinical network SALT LAKE CITY –– IDbyDNA, a data analytics-driven metagenomics company, and ARUP Laboratories announce a strategic partnership to develop and commercialize novel next-generation sequencing (NGS) infectious disease tests that are more comprehensive, more sensitive, and more accurate than […]

Scientists from South Korea, China & Japan Receive a Breakthrough Sweet Potato Assembly Ness Ziona, Israel – NRGene, the worldwide leader in genomic assembly and analysis, has delivered a significantly improved assembly of the sweet potato genome to a group of scientists from Japan, China, and Korea. The genome sequencing was performed as part of a […]

NRGene Assembles Genome of Upland Cotton, Most Common Clothing Cotton, in less than Seven Weeks Ness Ziona, Israel – July 25, 2017 – NRGene, the worldwide leader in genomic assembly and analysis, and Genosys Inc. (TGS Singapore), a leading distributor of genomics technologies in China, partnered to deliver two complete cotton genomes. “We first sequenced […]

NRGene Assembles Genome of Upland Cotton, Most Common Clothing Cotton, in less than Seven Weeks Ness Ziona, Israel – NRGene, the worldwide leader in genomic assembly and analysis, and Genosys Inc. (TGS Singapore), a leading distributor of genomics technologies in China, partnered to deliver two complete cotton genomes. “We first sequenced upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) in […]

Precision ID GlobalFiler NGS STR Panel v2 and Converge 2.0 software enable retrieval of more data from mixed and degraded samples CARLSBAD, Calif. — Forensic scientists who need to differentiate genetic profiles in forensic DNA mixtures, such as those commonly associated with crime scenes, now have access to a new next-generation sequencing (NGS) STR panel from […]

Life-sciences ecosystem cuts storage costs by 50 percent, reduces complexity and drastically speeds data analysis of DNA sequencing and interpretation SAN MATEO, CA — Cloudian, Inc., a global leader in enterprise object storage systems, today announced it is working with ScaleMatrix and OnRamp BioInformatics to improve efficiencies of data analysis and storage for life sciences […]