Genomics England Announces Successful Companies in Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) for a Share of £8 Million

Genomics England today (11 March 2015) announced the successful companies in its Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI) Phase Two assessment of Enabling Technologies for Genomics Sequence Data Analysis and Interpretation. £8 million is being made available for the product development stage of the competition with the companies adopting a programme of...

 

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Omixon Upgrade Holotype HLA to 7 Loci

Omixon announce that Holotype HLA™, a HLA genotyping product that is NGS-based and provides the most complete and accurate characterization of the HLA genes, will be extended from five to seven HLA loci. Launched with five loci (HLA-A, B, C, DRB1, DQB1) in October 2014, and currently available under...

 

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High Accuracy and High Precision HLA Typing Using Illumina Reads: Typing Algorithm and Perspectives on Novel Allele Discovery

Authors: György Horváth, Krisztina Rigó, Tim Hague, Attila Bérces, Szilveszter Juhos Abstract: Wide acceptance of high-throughput next-generation sequencers in medicinal genomics and clinics brought the promise of fast HLA typing. We are presenting the algorithmic challenges and workflow of HLA typing with a special attention to ambiguous or poorly...

 

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