New System for ultra high throughput genotyping

Applied Biosystems announced the commercial availability of the SNPlex Genotyping System, a reagent and software product designed to allow researchers to conduct ultra high throughput genotyping studies for the characterization of complex diseases using the Applied Biosystems 3730xl and 3730 DNA Analyzers.

The company points out that this novel system offer the life science industry a new degree of scalability, flexibility, and cost effectiveness for genotyping projects by allowing both large-scale, genomic discovery studies involving thousands of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), as well as smaller studies involving select SNPs for targeted research, with either standard or customized assay panels.