NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Twist Bioscience and Desktop Genetics today announced that they have formed a partnership to develop and offer integrated experiment design and DNA synthesis tools to facilitate gene-editing research. 

Under the terms of the deal, Desktop will collaborate with its customers to computationally design sgRNA libraries for CRISPR applications in any cell line. These libraries will then be synthesized by Twist and shipped directly to customers.

Additional terms of the arrangement were not disclosed.