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Queensland Centre for Medical Genomics Adopts Illumina Sequencing for Australian ICGC Program

The QCMG will replace their fleet of SOLiD/5500 systems with three Illumina HiSeq 2500 systems.

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Tue May 22, 2012

Freshnews

New York Genome Center Announces Formal Commencement of Collaborative Relationship with Illumina

As a next step in this collaboration, the Center will begin taking delivery of Illumina HiSeq 2000 and 2500 sequencing systems, creating the foundation for its pilot lab operations, which will commence in Manhattan this summer.

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Nucleic Acids Research

Summarizing and correcting the GC content bias in high-throughput sequencing

This bias can dominate the signal of interest for analyses that focus on measuring fragment abundance within a genome, such as copy number estimation .

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Related Topix: UC Berkeley, Veracode

Sun May 20, 2012

Bioinformatics

pIRS: Profile-based Illumina pair-end reads simulator

However, there is no existing software that can simulate Illumina reads with real error and quality distributions and coverage bias yet, which is very useful in relevant software development and study designing of sequencing projects.

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Related Topix: Veracode, Genetics, Medicine

Mon Apr 30, 2012

Myrtle Beach Online

Hologic to buy Gen-Probe for about $3.72B

BEDFORD, Mass. -- Medical device maker Hologic Inc. said Monday that it will buy diagnostic test maker Gen-Probe for about $3.72 billion in an all-cash deal.

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