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Roche NimbleGen Certifies Dutch Services Shop

Apr 26, 2011

By a GenomeWeb staff reporter

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Roche NimbleGen said today that it has certified the Dutch genomics services shop BaseClear to process samples using the NimbleGen SeqCap EZ Library.

Leiden-based BaseClear received the Certified Service Provider designation specifically to use the SeqCap EZ Exome version 2.0 products for next-generation sequencing.

Roche NimbleGen said that is the first CSP for this service in Europe and the second worldwide.

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