Agilent Technologies has introduced the Sureselect DNA Capture Array.
This removes a major bottleneck in small-scale DNA studies by letting scientists sequence only genomic areas of interest with next-generation-sequencing (NGS) instruments.
Designed for smaller studies, the Sureselect DNA Capture Array complements the company's in-solution Sureselect Target Enrichment System, which is designed for medium- to large-scale NGS studies of numerous samples, including automated high-throughput workflows.
Dr Fred Ernani, the company's emerging genomics applications product manager, said: 'If a lab is doing next-generation sequencing, Agilent offers a portfolio of products that make those experiments run faster, better and/or less expensively.
'The Sureselect DNA Capture Array is well suited for the researcher who needs a cost-effective target enrichment tool for a small number of samples,' he added.
In addition to the Sureselect on-array and in-solution target enrichment products, Agilent also offers a high-sensitivity DNA kit for quality control on the 2100 Bioanalyzer, robotics for NGS workflows and reagents for long-range polymerase chain-reaction experiments.
The Sureselect DNA Capture Array is based on work carried out in collaboration with the Gregory Hannon laboratory at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories.
Probes were designed through Earray, Agilent's web-based design application, and high-fidelity microarrays were custom synthesised using the company's Sureprint fabrication platform.
The Sureselect DNA Capture Array is customised and can be purchased individually, making the start-up cost of target enrichment experiments low for those researchers that want to perform this application.
