At the annual ‘world cup of genomics’ at the Plant and Animal Genome XVIII conference in San Diego, Floragenex debuted results from its RAD LongRead sequencing method. The results of a pilot study were displayed in a poster authored by Floragenex, VP of Research, Dr. Rick Nipper. A PDF copy of the poster is available here.

The RAD LongRead technology is an extension of the patented Restriction site Associated DNA  (RAD) sample preparation method, developed by Floragenex. The technique enables researchers who want SNP information in species lacking an assembled reference genome a path towards developing SNP based high-throughput assays. The 300-600 contigs that can be generated from the Illumina Genome Analyzer system using this sample preparation method and Floragenex bioinformatics tools, offer researchers wishing to use  any of the leading commercial genotyping platforms, enough flanking sequence to design effective assays.

Floragenex and its animal sciences/biomedical division, Biota Sciences, offers RAD LongRead sample preparation, sequencing, and analysis services to customers working in any organism.