NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Microchip Biotechnologies is working with scientists at Stanford University to develop a front-end microfluidic-based sample preparation system aimed at streamlining and speeding up pyrosequencing projects, the company said today.
Steven Jovanovich, CEO of Dublin, Calif.-based MBI, said the goal of the work is to automate the complex upstream template production process by using the firm’s Microscale-On-chip Valves to “greatly reduce upfront sample preparation time,” and to cut labor and reagent costs.
The privately held company is working with Stanford scientist Mostafa Ronaghi, who the company said was involved in introducing pyrosequencing in Sweden in the 1990s.