10X Genomics' GemCode

10X Genomics this week launched the GemCode sequencing platform at the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology in Marco Island, Fla. GemCode is a molecular barcoding and analysis platform that consists of instrumentation, reagents, and software, and delivers long-range information including haplotype phasing, structural variation, and de novo assembly. The platform partitions arbitrarily long DNA molecules, including those greater than 100 kb, and prepares sequencing libraries in parallel so that all fragments produced within a partition share a common barcode. A simple workflow combines large partition numbers with a massively diverse barcode library to generate more than 100,000 barcode-containing partitions, while only requiring about 1ng of DNA input, the company said.

10X Genomics is accepting purchase orders for the GemCode instrument at $75,000 and will begin shipping in the second quarter of 2015.