febit joins the READNA consortium with its novel sequence capture technology

06-Mar-2009 - Germany
febit announced, the company will further advance its HybSelect technology for use in READNA projects. According to the company, HybSelect enables automated capture of specific DNA regions for high-throughput sequencing and will soon be launched in several markets. Joining a group of 16 European partners from industry and academics, febit will support the READNA consortium (REvolutionary Approaches and Devices for Nucleic Acid analysis). In projects supported by the EU with 12 million Euros of funding, the consortium pursues the development and evaluation of trail-blazing new technologies for DNA sequencing. For the research group of Dr. Ivo Gut, project coordinator and Associate Director of the Centre National de Génotypage (CNG) in Paris (France), febit will adapt its HybSelect technology for selected applications in next generation sequencing.

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