Sep 04
While we are waiting for costs of sequencing to drop
With the advent of NGS technologies it is now possible for any lab to re-sequence a human genome in a few weeks. Possible, yes, but still to expensive to do it routinely.
For this reason array capture technologies have emerged which selectively capture pre-selected regions of the genome e.g. all known coding regions.
Today the company Olink announced that they have developed a new technology with the same objective but not based on a microarray. Instead, the technology allows for masively multiplexed PCR reactions to selectively amplify pre-selected genomic regions. The technology is named Selector and was developed in colaboration with researchers from the University of Uppsala in Sweden.