Formulatrix and an inexpensive digital PCR for NGS library quantitation

Formulatrix Digital PCR Plate
Underside of the Formulatrix Digital PCR Plate

The American Society for Human Genetics 2013 Annual Meeting was held this week in Boston. Starting from Tuesday and going through Saturday, there are ancillary meetings both before and after (and Life Technologies had an Ion World event the two days prior). As one of the two ‘main event’ trade-show exhibits for the genomics tool-providers (the other being the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology in Marco Island FL every February), you can learn a lot by walking around and talking to different vendors.

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The next NGS platform – the QIAGEN GeneReaderâ„¢

The QIAGEN GeneReader at AACR (April 2013)
The QIAGEN GeneReader at AACR (April 2013)

Earlier this year at the February AGBT Conference, a person from QIAGEN came over to the Ion Torrent suite and asked me a few questions about the Ion Proton and in particular the upcoming Ion Chef unit. (The Ion Chef for those not familiar with it can replace the OneTouch 2 automated template preparation instrument with another one that will not only perform the emulsion PCR but also enrich the ion sphere particles, and load the chips as well.)

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