Next Generation Sequencing

At the recent Bio-IT World Conference in Boston, USA, we held a competition where the lucky winner could walk away with a MacBook Air and an extensive collection of CLC bio software, including CLC Genomics Workbench.

The lucky winner was Sébastien Vachenc from Laboratoires Fournier - a Solvay Pharmaceuticals company. He was of course most thrilled when he learned he had won the first prize in the popular competition and looks forward to working with CLC Genomics Workbench, once it’s released!

GATC Biotech AG have announced their purchase of another 454 GS FLX system. This adds to the company’s NGS portfolio which already includes systems from 454, Solexa and SOLiD.

According to the press release, GATC’s site in Constance now has a sequencing capacity of 450 gigabases per year.

This does not have much to do with next generation sequencing but being a bio-geek I could not resit posting a link to Bio-Rad’s new PCR song.