“Enrichment of Resequencing Targets for Analysis of Rare Variants”
Presented by RainDance Technologies
at the 11th Annual Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) Meeting
Despite notable success in the identification of common variants using genome-wide association studies, these approaches often lack the resolution to identify a large portion of the total variation believed to contribute to disease. With an increased interest in understanding the contribution of variants with a range of frequency and effect, high-resolution methods such as targeted resequencing provide the opportunity to assay both common and rare variants in large cohort studies. In order to confidently detect rare variants, it is critical to obtain as complete coverage as possible for regions of interest.
RainDance Technologies has commercialized a platform to enable the most complete coverage of resequencing targets by leveraging the benefits of single-molecule PCR in a format that easily integrates into next-generation sequencing workflows. To explain the benefits of this approach, RainDance will hold an AGBT workshop, entitled “Enrichment of Resequencing Targets for Analysis of Rare Variants.”
The Sequence Enrichment application utilizes our RainStorm™ technology to manipulate picoliter volume droplets to generate more than two million independent PCR reactions per sample in a simple and robust process. The workshop will describe the use of this novel method for enrichment of resequencing targets with high efficiency resulting in the highest-quality data for analysis of rare variants in both coding and non-coding regions of the genome. In addition, the workshop will feature a preview of new applications from RainDance that include targeted methylation analysis and ultra-deep resequencing of heterogeneous samples.
Enrichment of Resequencing Targets for Analysis of Rare Variants
February 26, 2010
2:00 to 3:00 p.m. EST
Marco Island Marriott Resort, in the Islands Ballroom
Speakers:
- Scott Kennedy, Chief Scientific Officer
- Roopom Banerjee, President & CEO
- Guest Speaker: Dale J. Hedges, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Human Genetics, Assistant Director, Center for Genome Technology, Hussman Institute for Human Genomics (HIHG), Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami
More information about the workshop: http://www.raindancetech.com/agbt/
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