Next generation sequencing Archives

News and Trends 29 Feb 2016

Exploiting the Power of NGS to Diagnose Rare Diseases

Diploid (Belgium) is using genome sequencing data to diagnose rare diseases – and is now charging only if its algorithms can match the genome to a specific rare disease. Patients of rare diseases often struggle with the lack of therapies options – an empty space where Biotechs seem to thrive. But therapy availability is not the […]

February 29, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 25 Feb 2016

NGS Battle: Illumina is now suing Oxford Nanopore (and it looks suspicious)

NGS-Giant Illumina (US) is suing Oxford Nanopore (UK), the Unicorn ready to disrupt gene sequencing. What’s the story? Illumina currently has the monopoly on NGS equipment, and Illumina’s machines make a common (and bulky) fixture in labs all over the world. In the future, many hospitals will move into data-driven medicine and NGS plays an important […]

February 25, 2016 - 3 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

News and Trends 16 Feb 2016

This Swiss Bioinformatics Start-Up is Simplifying NGS and Data Driven Medicine for Hospitals

As one of the most successful medical bioinformatics start-ups in Europe, Sophia Genetics (Switzerland) has now forged a partnership with a US nucleic acid synthesis company to facilitate the transition to Data Driven Medicine. This Swiss start-up led the way in European medical informatics when their software earned accreditation to store patient genomic data – a true […]

February 16, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Denise Neves Gameiro

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News and Trends 12 Feb 2016

World’s Largest Genome Sequencing Project partners with Global Leader in NGS

Genomics England (UK) today announce a partnership with the Next-Generation Sequencing Giant, Illumina (US), to develop a platform that can be used to improve and automate genome interpretation as part of the 100,000 Genome Project. The tools will operate within the Genomics England secure database to enable researchers and clinicians to access information and reports more readily. […]

February 12, 2016 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

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News and Trends 11 Dec 2015

Digital CRISPR Cloud Services: An Appealing Product to Big Bioinformatics Investors like Illumina

London’s Desktop Genetics and their remote CRISPR and digital genetics platform has caught the eye of US Illumina – the US Competitor to German Giant QIAGEN in Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)… Desktop Genetics (DeskGen) is an online service that researchers can use to design CRISPR gene editing experiments, purchase reagents and find commercial entities to […]

December 11, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 24 Nov 2015

Next Generation Sequencing: the final step to massively adopt Personalized Medicine

For several decades, physicians have been dreaming of a Personalized Medicine, able to treat patients according to their genetic profile. The development of Next Generation Sequencing techniques can be the ultimate step before a massive adoption of personalized medicine. The world of medicine is shifting from the traditional “one size fits all” approach to one […]

November 24, 2015 - 4 minutesmins - By Joachim Eeckhout

News and Trends 13 Nov 2015

Biotech of the Week: Lexogen and it’s Transcriptomic Approach to Disease

This week we say ‘bye for noo’ to Edinburgh and head South East, across the English Channel and through both Netherlands and Germany where we arrive at this week’s destination, Vienna, Austria. This country is the place of birth of Mozart, has the only cuisine named after a city (Viennese) and absolutely stunning scenery, it is […]

November 13, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 5 Nov 2015

German Bioinformatics Start-Up wants to Change Studies of GMO Crops

High-Tech Grüenderfonds (HTGF) has invested in a spin-off from the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology and University of Tübingen. Computomics’ has a pioneering agricultural project involving next generation sequencing (NGS) of GMO crops. Computomics is the biotech which has caught HTGF’s interest. Based in Tübingen (Germany), this bio-informatics start-up tackle genomic analysis of agricultural […]

November 5, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 28 Oct 2015

Dragen Bio-Processor: UK Partnership to Finally Sequence Domestic Wheat Genome

We still haven’t fully sequenced the domestic wheat genome! Now the US Dragen chip has the answer for speedy whole-genome analysis, which The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) in England will test out for UK food-security research. Dragen is a Bio-IT platform processing chip which has clinical pipelines for many areas in research, including the Microbiome, […]

October 28, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 1 Oct 2015

Artificially Intelligent ‘Betsy’ will analyse 100,000 genomes for UK Government

The “Berg Interrogative Biology” program from Boston (US) is a form of artificial intelligence the UK government has employed to work its Genome project. The platform will use a combination of systems biology techniques to analyse up to 100,000 genomes sourced from England’s National Health Service (NHS) for Genomics England (owned by the UK Department […]

October 1, 2015 - 2 minutesmins - By Dani Bancroft

News and Trends 25 Sep 2015

This week’s major stories outside the EU you NEED to read! (Martin Shkreli, Biolimb, OrbiMed)

Happy Saturday everyone! This week was full of so many good articles, we’re doing a top 7 top stories outside the EU you need to know! Yes, you heard correctly, seven of the best articles for your reading pleasure, you are most welcome ;). THE CEO WHO JACKED UP THE PRICE OF A DRUG BY 5000% […]

September 25, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

News and Trends 22 Jul 2015

Nanopore cashes in €100M to revolutionize Next-gen sequencing

Personalized medicine is now becoming a reality thanks to next-gen sequencing. Illumina still remains Number 1 in the field, but Oxford Nanopore is on its way up to the top of the charts. The UK-based company raised €100M to become a serious challenger with its cheap and small technology. Oxford Nanopore Technologies, a spin out […]

July 22, 2015 - 3 minutesmins - By Philip Hemme

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