29/10/10: Exhibiting at Symposium of the Danish Microbiological Society, 9th November 2010
October 29, 2010 by Peter · Leave a Comment
You Do Bio will be exhibiting at the 2010 Symposium of The Danish Microbiological Society. The symposium will be held between 0900-2100 at the University of Copenhagen Faculty of Life Sciences, Thorvaldsensvej 40, 1870 Frederiksberg C. 
Visit the DMS Homepage to learn more about the meeting, registration etc.
If you are planning on attending the symposium, or just happen to work at KU-Life, I look forward to meeting you.
Of particular interest to microbiologists will be the presentation of EnBase products from BioSilta. I will have technical information about these exciting products and limited supply of free samples.
28/10/10: SureSelect Human Kinome Kit flyer…
October 28, 2010 by Peter · Leave a Comment
…can be downloaded here (PDF file).
22/10/10: Agilent Target Enrichment Seminar, Stockholm 29th October 2010
October 22, 2010 by Peter · 1 Comment
This will be of interest to anyone doing next generation sequencing. It is great that the Agilent team in Sweden have managed to get Emily Le Proust and other speakers to present at this meeting.
Here are the details:
Agilent Technologies is the leading provider of target enrichment solutions, providing customer designed kits as well as catalog product for both the Illumina Genome Analyzer and the Applied Biosystems ™ SOLiD System.
Join us for a Seminar at Science for Life Laboratory, Karolinska Institutet Science Park
29 October, 13:00-15:30
Come and meet our director of Applications and Chemistry R&D, Emily LeProust, and find out more about:
·The new Agilent SureSelect Human All Exon 50Mb kit
the most comprehensive exon capture kit available.
· The new Agilent SureSelect Human Kinome kit
focused specifically on kinases and select cancer related genes to help speed biomarker discovery and link mutations with disease states.
·Automation of the NGS Library preparation and Target Enrichment
using the Bravo Automated Liquid Handling Platform
Seats are limited, please register by sending your contact details to customerinfo_sweden@agilent.com no later than Tuesday 26th October
20/10/10: Agilent’s Emily Le Proust Possibly Speaking in Stockholm Friday 29th October
October 20, 2010 by Peter · Leave a Comment
I just heard that there is a chance that Agilent’s Emily Le Proust, R&D Director overseeing development of SureSelect, will be giving a seminar in Stockholm next week. I don’t have details other than that, since the details are being finalized. There is some chance it might not happen. However, since SureSelect genomic target enrichment is of interest to many researchers in Next Generation Sequencing (NGS), I thought I would give a “heads up.”
You are welcome to contact me if you are interested in learning some more.
(Information has been updated since this post was first made)
19/10/10: Agilent Release CGH + SNP Microarrays
October 19, 2010 by Peter · 1 Comment
This looks like a really exciting product release from Agilent.
Agilent’s CGH arrays are already an excellent product for cytogenetics customers. The possibilities of the platform have now been extended to include a set of Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) probes on the same microarray. Researchers can now obtain detection of copy number and copy-neutral variations simultaneously, such as loss of heterozygosity (LOH) and uniparental disomy (UPD) on a single array.
As well as the standard CGH + SNP array designs, Agilent offer full customization possibilities for these arrays: you can choose multiple formats – SurePrint G3: 1x1M, 2x400K, 4x180K and 8x60K.
Current content source database includes over 28 million predesigned, in silico-validated human CGH probes that span exonic, intronic, intergenic,CNV, pseudoautosomal, and segmented duplication DNA regions, and SNP probes for ~65,000 SNPs.
I was talking to a researcher yesterday who is very interestedin the possibilities that this new product can offer to his research projects. If you too would like to learn some more, please contact You Do Bio.
15/10/10: Transform Your Approach to Cell Culture
October 15, 2010 by Peter · Leave a Comment
You Do Bio represents the Finnish company BioSilta (www.biosilta.com) in Denmark. BioSilta manufacture EnBase, a microbial cell culture media that gives users improved yields of cells and proteins compared to traditional laboratory media. What can you expect? Something like 20 times more bacteria and 10 times more recombinant protein is a typical result. Users are able to transform their cell culture methodology, leading to improved cell and protein yields and/or a move to smaller culture volumes.
BioSilta is planning a tour of Denmark during the week of 25-29 October to explain in more detail how EnBase can help researchers. They will also present “EnPresso,” the new EnBase product. If you are based in Denmark or Southern Sweden, would you also be interested to have an introduction to EnBase technology? A meeting can be completed in about 30 minutes. Also, you will get the possibility to obtain product samples that you can try for yourself.
If this sounds interesting, please get right back to You Do Bio through the contact page.
13/10/10: IDT has exclusive deal with 454 to Provide Custom Primers for Genome Sequencer Range
October 13, 2010 by Peter · Leave a Comment
The purpose of this deal is to provide high quality custom primers for the GS FLX Titanium Chemistry, used on the GS FLX System and GS Junior System. The primers are available as FusionPrimers or Rapid Library MID (Molecular Identification) Adaptor Oligos. Typically, they would be used for amplicon or shotgun sequencing.
If you are doing sequencing on Roche NGS instruments, you will be interested in the IDT design tool for primers. This unique software enables you to create specific primers to target individual or multiple exons from one or more genes.
The background to this is that IDT provides very high quality oligonucleotides. These 454 primers are HPLC-purified and their very high purity minimizes the risk of mis-priming events due to truncations and other errors that may compromise sequencing data quality.
The full press release about this deal is available here.
If you are interested and want to learn more, please contact You Do Bio.
