Making Sense of Next-Generation Sequencing Data
What a difference a year makes for Illumina. Unlike last year, Illumina has started this year on a strong foot; Roche chief says Illumina is not a must have, but nice to have and Illumina announces the acquisition of Verinata Health, a non-invasive prenatal testing company. The year 2012 was a busy year for many personal [...]
23andMe announced that it has raised more than $50 Million dollars in a fresh round of financing. One of the contributors to the new round of funding is Yuri Milner – the russian venture capitalist who also funded Facebook and Twitter. Other investors are Sergey Brin, 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki, New Enterprise Associates, Google Ventures [...]
It has been a couple of weeks since the annual human genetics/genomics conference ASHG 2012 is over. A lot of science using Next-Gen sequencing were presented. And the Next-Gen sequencing technology companies announced and re-announced better and longer read technologies in the next couple of years. During the conference and since ASHG 2012 got over, [...]
BGI Americas sort of extended its deep exome sequencing offer until September 30, by slightly lowering the price of 100x coverage package and keeping the price of 200X coverage data as the same. The new deep next-gen sequencing offer for 100X exome coverage costs $1649 per sample and it is $150 cheaper than previous promotional [...]
Yet another discount on 23andME’s DNA kit. This time 23andMe itself is offering $50 off from its $299 personal DNA kit as part of its summer special offer. The new 23andMe $50 discount was sent to existing customers to add their family members to 23andMe. However, the $50 discount comes with the deadline; it is [...]
Earlier we reported that CureTogether, a startup company acquired by 23andMe, is offering a exclusive $60 discount coupon for 23andMe personal genomics DNA kit. The special coupon code allows one to buy the 23andMe personal DNA kit for $239 instead of $299. Now we are able to get the coupon to NextGenSeek.com‘s audience to use [...]
CureTogether, fresh off acquisition by 23andMe announced a special $60 discount on 23andMe services for CureTogether members. With the exclusive 23andMe discount offer, one can save $60 off on up to two 23andMe kits. The exclusive offer can be used by existing CureTogether member or a family member/friends. CureTogether mailed its customer base and gave [...]
23andMe, the California based personal genetics company, announced that it is making its first acquisition by buying CureTogether. CureTogether was founded by Alexandra Carmichael and Daniel Reda in 2008. It is a patient-sourced company founded with the aim of making chronic medical conditions social and spread the collective treatment benefits to everyone. CureTogerther is currently [...]
Pathway Genomics and 23andMe, the consumer genomics companies, have teamed up with Harvard Medical School (Brigham and Women’s Hospital) and University of Michigan to study the impact of personal genomics studies. The impact of personal genomics study named PGen, hopes to throw more light on the expectations of consumers of personal genomic services, their motivations [...]
23andMe the personal genomics company based in California announced that it is modifying its pricing structure for its genetic test kit. The biggest upshot is that 23andMe’s personal genomic service prize is just one time $299, instead of fixed one time payment plus monthly subscription of $9 for a year. 23andMe is saying that the [...]
