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News Release from: CLC bio | Subject: Genome Sequencer FLX
Edited by the Laboratorytalk Editorial
Team on 14 February 2008
Seeking to sequence African tuberculosis
strains
CLC bio has joined forces with the first centre for high throughput DNA sequencing in Africa, Inqaba Biotechnical Industries, in an effort to help fight tuberculosis on the African continent
Together CLC bio and Inqaba Biotec will assemble and analyse data from multiple tuberculosis strains, sequenced on Inqaba Biotec's Genome Sequencer FLX system CLC bio is in the final stage of development of its upcoming CLC Genomics Workbench, which is a new workbench aimed at next generation sequencing and whole genome assembly
This article was originally published on Laboratorytalk on 30 Mar 2006 at 8.00am (UK)
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The new workbench will support all next generation sequencing platforms, such as Roche GS FLX (454), Illumina Gene analyser System (Solexa), and Solid analyser from Applied Biosystems from the start - with Helicos and others to be included in the near future.
Oliver Preisig, executive director at Inqaba Biotechnical Industries, states: "The consortium's goal is to find the genetic differences between different strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
"We target our genome sequencing on XDR (extreme drug resistant) and MDR (multi drug resistant) strains of the bacterium.
"Having assembled the genomes of these strains we can find the strains' specific markers and develop a PCR test that could bring much faster diagnosis for proper treatment.
"This means we have an urgent need for whole genome sequencing, and look forward to CLC bio's upcoming workbench, which will provide an intuitive and fast solution".
Senior scientific officer at CLC bio, Roald Forsberg, continues: "We are really exited to join forces with inqaba biotec in its tubercolosis research programme.
"The large amount of genomic data inqaba biotec produces offers us an exciting opportunity to test and fine tune our algorithms on real and challenging data - and at the same time it allows us to contribute to the ongoing fight against tuberculosis.
"This is a great motivation to our developer team".
The South African mycobacterium tuberculosis genome sequencing project is funded by BioPad, a biotechnology investment trust funded by the Department of Science and Technology of South Africa and includes as consortium members the Chris Hani Baragwanath business unit of the National Health Laboratory Services, the Respiratory and Meningeal Pathogens Research Unit at the University of Witwatersrand and Inqaba Biotec.
The upcoming CLC Genomics Workbench will among other things feature an SIMD accelerated genome assembler, and will take full advantage of 'paired ends' data.
CLC bio will release CLC Genomics Workbench in the spring. Request a free brochure from CLC bio ...
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