10x Genomics, Beckman Coulter Automated Single-Cell Gene Expression Workflow

10x Genomics and Beckman Coulter Life Sciences have launched an automated single-cell gene expression workflow, resulting from a collaboration the companies announced last year. It includes an automation-friendly library preparation kit from 10x and a method from Beckman Coulter and is designed to enable higher throughput and reduce hands-on time for single-cell gene expression studies. Specifically, it follows Chromium GEM-X Universal 3' and 5' cell partitioning and barcoding steps and enables library preparation on the Beckman Coulter Biomek i7 Hybrid Workstation.