Caliper Life Sciences announced a collaboration with Edge BioSystems. EdgeBio and Caliper will co-develop automated protocols for the 5500xl, SOLiD 4, and Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine (PGM) systems on Caliper’s Sciclone NGS Workstation, and will initially focus on sample preparation for exome, whole genome, and RNA sequencing applications.
“We are excited to be working with Caliper,” said Dean Gaalaas, CEO of EdgeBio. “Caliper’s approach to sequencing sample preparation is robust and flexible, capable of meeting the changing protocols, applications and workflows of both high throughput and benchtop sequencing groups.”
“As one of the first Ion Torrent PGM service providers, EdgeBio is a pioneer in sequencing sample prep and bioinformatics, and we are excited to be working with them to automate the 5500xl, SOLiD 4, and PGM chemistry,” said Kevin Hrusovsky, President and CEO of Caliper Life Sciences. “Caliper has developed a complete sequencing sample preparation suite that is versatile across multiple chemistry solutions. Caliper’s suite integrates library construction, sequence capture, quantification, and quality control metrics. The collaboration with EdgeBio will allow us to expand our automation and microfluidic technologies to SOLiD and Ion Torrent users.”
Source: Caliper Life Sciences