nanopore
The company faces an uncertain federal funding environment in the US, particularly regarding the NIH, and tightening export control restrictions from China.
The platform, built upon technologies Roche obtained through the acquisition of Genia and Stratos Genomics, is scheduled to become commercially available next year.
The company will host an online event just before this year's annual AGBT meeting to discuss the sequencing technology it acquired from Stratos Genomics in 2020.
Named CycloneSeq, BGI's technology is similar to that of Oxford Nanopore Technologies and will be commercialized and distributed by MGI Tech.
Two recent studies described methods to build protein pores and small molecule binders de novo, enabling customized ligand-gated nanopore sensors.