Genomics is advancing rapidly, and as the world’s only contract genomics organization, we make it our business to work closely with world-leading technology partners to make sure our customers can access all the best tools available for using the genome to derive the insights they need – from generating sequence data to storing it, querying it and sharing it, all in one place.
This week, 10x Genomics, Inc. announced new programs to deploy its innovative sequence data solutions to create a “global ecosystem of sequencing technologies and service providers who together span all aspects of the next-generation sequencing (NGS) workflow, from wet-lab to informatics,” said Edwin Hauw, senior director of strategic marketing at 10x Genomics, in their recent press release. WuXi NextCODE is proud to be among the first partners in this strategy.
10x Genomics’ Certified Service Provider program will connect customers to a reliable network for outsourcing genomic and single cell analysis through global providers, leading off with WuXi NextCODE. The applications include 10x Genomics’ Chromium Single Cell Gene Expression, Immune Profiling Genome or Exome Solutions.
Their second initiative, Compatible Partnership Programs, will designate 10x compatible products, thereby helping customers identify ancillary NGS technologies that have been verified and validated as compatible with the company’s products. More details about the two new programs will be shared at this years’ Advances in Genome Biology and Technology Meeting (AGBT) held February 12 to 16 in Orlando, FL.
We at WuXi NextCODE already have considerable experience working with 10x Genomics. “We are proud to be among the first certified 10x service providers,” says Dr. Hongye Sun, WuXi NextCODE’s CTO and founder of our sequencing laboratory. “Our philosophy is to provide our customers with end-to-end solutions for using genomic data to improve health and medicine.
10x shares that vision, and their technology enables our customers to derive even more information and value from their sequencing data and to use other best-in-class laboratory tools and our informatics to generate novel insights. That’s the kind of innovation and collaboration that drives the field forward.”
It’s a strong partnership with a compelling rationale. We at WuXi NextCODE are building the global standard platform for genomic data. Our own capabilities include study design, sequencing, secondary analysis, storage, interpretation, scalable analytics, artificial intelligence and deep learning.
Meanwhile, as Sun says, “10x Genomics offers, among other tools, unique library methods in combination with short-read sequencing technologies that are very powerful for DNA/RNA sequencing from single cells to population scale. That means users can derive a range of key additional information, including on phasing, structural variation and gene expression. That will not be obtained with traditional short-read sequencing technologies alone.”
Once our partners have used 10x to generate the data they need, we are very pleased to be able to help them take it downstream according to their needs, to improve medicine and health around the world.