Introduction Brock Peters is senior director of research at Complete Genomics, where he has worked for nearly 12 years. He received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and previously was part of a team that catalogued cancer gene mutations at Genentech. An expert in cancer genetics, he is enthusiastic about the power of WGS to advance oncology, showing correlation between mutation profiles of cancer tumors and the kinds of drugs that are most effective. Along with CSO Dr...

September 9, 2019 -- Today the ultra-high-throughput genetic sequencer, DNBSEQ-T7, independently developed by Shenzhen's MGI Tech Co., Ltd. (MGI), was officially delivered to business partners. The first sequencers have arrived at the labs of partners such as BGI Tech Solutions Co., Ltd. and WeGene. Pre-delivery user test data showed that T7 performed well according to all indicators. As the highest throughput sequencer to date, DNBSEQ-T7 has achieved a number of breakthroughs: the first ...

SHENZHEN, China and NEW DELHI, India, Sept. 6, 2019 -- "ILS is excited about this partnership with MGI, as it offers an excellent combination of advanced technology, accurate results, extensive ready-to-use assays and a highly affordable price point for the Indian market, with much needed flexibility of sequencing throughput," said Neeraj Gupta, Director of Sales & Marketing at ILS. ILS will help drive marketing efforts in India with their depth of experience in the local market. Seminars...

MGI will participate in the 28th International Congress of International Society for Forensic Genetics (ISFG) Conference in Prague from September 9 to 13, 2019. Launching soon is MGIEasy Pa-SNPs Genotyping Kit, a two-step multiplex PCR-based targeted library prep kit for rapid detection of 2010 high frequency single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of human. Designed to work with multiple sample types, including cell-free DNA (cfDNA), gDNA of blood, tissue, saliva and hair, this kit has be...

Two scientists from MGI are set to present at the 2019 Genome Science conference, held in the historic and beautiful city of Edinburgh Sept. 3-5. The conference continues to attract more than 250 delegates from academia, healthcare and industry with a focus on genomic technologies and genome science. This year the conference will again bring together scientists from around the world and from all backgrounds to share ideas, innovations and advances in the rapidly evolving field of high thr...

In order to facilitate access to our product user manuals, we have published the user manuals for sequencing reagent products and sequencing library preparation reagent products on MGI's official website, and we have inserted a card with download instructions for the user manuals in the corresponding kit. Instructions to download the user manuals 1. Choose one of the following methods to log in to the download page: (1) Enter MGI’s official website, click “Download Center” on the fi...