HLA Explore – New Genotyping Software for HLA by NGS

28/04/2017

Omixon announce the public release of HLA Explore 1.4. HLA Explore is HLA genotyping software for genetics/genomics researchers for the analysis and interpretation of any NGS data. It is high-performance, high-throughput and high-resolution multi-sample software for genotyping analysis, interpretation and reporting. The software – featured to analyse data from any...

2017: HLA TWIN V2.1 New Release

03/03/2017

Omixon announce today a major release for HLA Twin – the world’s most accurate, high throughput HLA genotyping software. HLA Twin V2.1 will be available as RUO and a special version will be submitted to the European Notified Body for CE-IVD certification. Thanks to the beta testers of V2.1,...

Fishing for Reads – HLA Typing From Non-targeted Data

26/10/2016

What is non-targeted data? For the sake of this post, ‘non-targeted data’ will be used as a collective term for data with more than a dozen or so targeted genes. Whole exome or whole genome sequencing, whole MHC, or multi-gene panels all fall into this category. These data types...

Genotyping Engine Race – Measuring Performance (pt. 2)

22/06/2016

To read the first part of the article, click here… Much much much later… After all the sequencing and genotyping is finally done, it’s time to measure how good the results are. As usual, there is no single, perfect measure for calculating performance. Every measure has a different problem....

Genotyping Engine Race – Measuring Performance

01/06/2016

Designing an Experiment Designing a validation study for any kind of tool can be a great challenge. For cutting edge technology, this challenge can be even greater. In this blog post I’ll try to cover some problematic aspects and methodological challenges that one can bump into when validating an...