Caris Life Sciences MI Exome

Caris Life Sciences has launched MI Exome, a whole-exome next-generation sequencing-based assay.

The test covers 22,000 genes and detects point mutations, indels, copy number alterations, and about 250,000 exonic, intronic, and intergenic SNPs. MI Exome also includes analysis of tumor mutational burden, microsatellite instability, loss of heterozygosity, and homologous recombination deficiency, and can be used to interrogate bacteria, viruses and fungi, including cancer-related pathogens, to support microbiome analysis. Average turnaround time is less than 14 days. When paired with the Caris Molecular Intelligence profiling services, the test can help detect and characterize cancer to guide individualized treatment decisions, the company said.