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Single-cell transcriptome sequencing and spatial omics technologies have helped pave the way for a traditionally genetics-focused crowd to pursue proteins.
AGBT: NanoString, 10x Genomics Plan High-Resolution Spatial Assays to Detect Thousands of RNAs
At last week's meeting, the firms shared their respective work on developing assays to detect 6,000 RNAs on the CosMx platform and 5,000 RNAs on the Xenium instrument.
Long-read sequencing featured prominently in many of the talks at this year's Advances in Genome Biology and Technology meeting.
Silent Genomes Project to Address Genomic Medicine Disparities for Canadian Indigenous Communities
The project, presented last week at the annual AGBT meeting, hopes to establish a genomic research governance framework and to build a variant library with Indigenous communities.
AGBT: Pacific Biosciences Offers More Info on Onso Short-Read Sequencer Performance, Pricing
The firm also revealed consumables reagent kit pricing for the instrument, which uses a new sequencing-by-binding method that PacBio says provides high accuracy.