Julia Karow

Bruker, Illumina, 10x Genomics, Singular Genomics, Scale Bio, and Parse Bio touted better multiplexing, throughput, and multiomics capabilities for their technologies.

While few conference speakers addressed the issue head-on in their scientific presentations, there was rampant chatter in the hallways.

At the AGBT conference on Tuesday, representatives from the Broad Institute, Labcorp, Johnson & Johnson, and CZI talked about using the UG 100 in various projects.

GenomeWeb caught up with Green on the eve of the AGBT conference, long considered to be the premier gathering for the genomic technology field.

The firm's long-read, single-molecule nanopore sequencer promises low cost and high accuracy for low-throughput applications in research and diagnostics.

The company offered more details on its "constellation" mapped read technology, Illumina Protein Prep assay, 5-base genome, PIPseq V single-cell assay, and paired 500-base MiSeq reads.

Researchers showed that inherited chromosomally integrated HHV-6 (ici-HHV-6) is associated with a threefold increase in basal cell carcinoma risk.

In his presidential address, delivered to a packed auditorium on Tuesday, Bruce Gelb acknowledged that this year's event is being somewhat overshadowed by the US presidential election.

The research study, run by Genomics England in collaboration with the UK's National Health Service, plans to sequence the genomes of 100,000 newborns.

The €700 million project will pilot diagnostic genomic testing for cancer and rare diseases for at least five years, but private labs cannot participate.