Roche NimbleGen and Caliper Life Sciences plan to develop and optimize protocols for the use of NimbleGen's target capture method with Caliper's liquid-handling system, the companies said this week.
Under the co-marketing agreement, the companies will develop automated methods for sequencing library preparation, enrichment of target regions, quantification, and quality control using NimbleGen's SeqCap EZ Library solution-based capture method and Caliper's Sciclone NGS Workstation.
Caliper already has a number of partnerships with other firms to automate aspects of next-generation sequencing sample prep using its equipment, for example with NuGen Technologies (IS 2/1/2011), Covaris (IS 3/1/2011), and EdgeBio (IS 6/28/2011).