New England Biolabs (NEB®) today announced the launch of the NEBNext Direct Custom Ready Panels. The new panels — coupled with the proprietary NEBNext Direct target enrichment technology — enable the rapid development and deployment of a customized target enrichment panel by allowing users to select from an extensive library of genes to produce sequencing data with high specificity and coverage uniformity.
“Targeted next generation sequencing panels for genomic profiling are generally plagued by design difficulty and high cost due to the wide variation in interrogated genes that are specific to a given study,” said Andrew Barry, Product Marketing Manager, Target Enrichment at NEB.
“As a result, we developed a library of pre-synthesized ‘baits’ that are optimized and specific to the full exonic content of ~850 genes associated with a range of human diseases, which can be readily combined into customized panels,” said Barry. “Not only does this give researchers ...
