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Twist Bioscience Respiratory Virus Research Panel

Jun 30, 2020

Twist Bioscience has launched the Twist Respiratory Virus Research Panel, a next-generation sequencing approach to detecting 29 common human respiratory viruses including SARS-CoV-2, several other coronaviruses, influenzas, rhinoviruses, and respiratory syncytial virus. The research-use-only panel will be bundled with an analysis platform from One Codex to enable a complete workflow beginning with Twist's target enrichment panel and ending with publication-ready visuals, the company said. The panel includes RNA- and DNA-based viruses in one kit with 41,047 nucleic acid probes, can detect as little as 100 copies of viral material, and has coverage of greater than 99.9 percent of the genome at 1X or greater post-enrichment.

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