Single molecule mapping OpGen making slow progress

Photo of an OpGen mapping card

In contrast to BioNano Genomics, who is starting commercialization with early access customers now and full commercial launch in the Spring of 2013, OpGen launched the Argus™ Optical Mapping system in the summer of 2010. Their customers use this system for microbial strain mapping, mainly for infectious disease research or finishing reference bacterial strains.

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BioNano Genomics, OpGen and Copy Number Variation

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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