Phase Genomics ProxiMeta Platform

Phase Genomics has launched its new ProxiMeta platform, which includes a 8-pack ProxiMeta kit with cloud-based ProxiMeta Analysis. According to the firm, the platform allows users to assemble hundreds of genomes and associated plasmids, phages, and antibiotic resistance, and interactions between genetic elements in microbial cells and communities. Phase said that the eight-reaction kit uses improved chemistry, includes reagents needed to prepare a sequencing-ready library from a microbiome sample, and does not require specialized equipment.

According to the firm, applications include antimicrobial resistance genes discovery, capturing phage and horizontal gene transfer, understanding the relationship between the microbiome and the resistome, and high-quality metagenome assembly from microbiome samples.