bionano genomics

BioNano Genomics explores Copy Number Variation

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The Irys system in the BioNano Genomics booth. Note the small chips in the lower right corner, about 3″ square, with three input/output ports to accommodate three samples.

ASHG 2012 in San Francisco is finally over! The exhibit booths get torn down, the equipment gets packed up and shipped to storage, and hundreds of foot-weary front-line soldiers get back to their normal routines, whether in sales, marketing, product development, R&D or product management.

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BioNano Genomics, OpGen and Copy Number Variation

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Image courtesy Flickr user <a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/48677280@N00/”>karen2754</a>.

A few weeks ago this paper appeared in Nature Biotechnology, “Genome mapping on nanochannel arrays for structural variation analysis and sequence assembly”. It was the first publication of a startup company in San Diego called BioNano Genomics.

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