Biotech Researchers Invited to Use an Automated, High-Capacity Target Capture-Sequencing Service

Researchers in need of DNA sequencing data can avail themselves of a new service that provides completely automated, high capacity, target capture-sequencing data, and streamlines sample preparation for targeted next-generation sequencing.

The new service, called targeted resequencing, is an innovation of Beckman Coulter Genomics (Danvers, MA, USA), a leading provider of genomic services and nucleic acid purification products.

The benefits of targeted resequencing include reduced sequencing, data storage, and processing requirements; more samples can be sequenced - increased throughput, decreased cost per sample; enhanced discovery of functional variations responsible for a disease; higher throughput and faster project turnaround times; greater reproducibility of sequence data; and decreased sample processing time from weeks to days.

Functionally, the service relies on the combination of “Agilent SureSelect Target Enrichment” technology with Beckman Coulter’s “SPRIworks Fragment Library System” for automated library construction and “Biomek Laboratory Automation Workstation” for liquid handling. More...