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New Products: Agilent's SureSelectQXT

Jun 03, 2014
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Agilent Technologies has launched the SureSelectQXT reagent kit, which prepares libraries for next-generation sequencing in seven hours with 50 ng of input DNA. The kit uses transposase-based library preparation and includes advances in hybridization chemistry that decreases hybridization time from 16 hours to 90 minutes, according to the company.

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