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

11/03/2015

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...

Omixon Upgrade Holotype HLA to 7 Loci

27/02/2015

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...

A Case Study for HLA Typing in Clinics: Reproducibility and Flowspace Alignment of NGS Reads

28/01/2015

Authors: Krisztina Rigó, György Horváth, Szilveszter Juhos, Sabine Canivet, Philippe Pellet, Abdelali Boudifa, Veronique Bertrand, Ioannis Theodorou Abstract: Long reads produced by Roche 454 sequencers are used for HLA typing for quite a while. Having long reads it is easier to determine the phase, but homopolymer errors are bringing...

Immunotherapy

07/01/2015

Cancer has become one of the biggest killers in the western world. High profile campaigns to tackle breast cancer and other common types have ensured that it is also one of the biggest businesses in modern medicine. To fight a high profile killer you need the best of cures....

Webinar – Rare & Null Allele Detection with HLA Twin™

04/12/2014

Are you interested in Orthogonal Bioinformatic Validation? Watch this latest webinar presentation on HLA Twin™ – Rare & Null Allele Detection Date: Thursday, 11th December, 2014 Time: 12:00–1pm EST (6–7pm CET) A live Q&A session will follow the presentation, offering you the opportunity to put forward any questions. Following registration, you...