Roche, Caliper Life in co-marketing agreement

Roche’s NimbleGen SeqCap EZ Library solution will be used for Caliper’s Sciclone NGS Workstation.

The transaction aims to simplify targeted resequencing workflows by developing automated methods for sequencing library preparation and enrichment of target regions, quantification and quality control.

The automated methods will facilitate biomedical researchers to analyze large cohorts to discover and confirm genetic variants that contribute to human disease.

Caliper Life Sciences president and CEO Kevin Hrusovsky said its Sciclone NGS Workstation accelerates sequencing sample preparation and enrichment for numerous sequencing chemistries and workflows.

"Together Caliper and Roche NimbleGen are developing targeted sequencing applications that enable studies that analyze variants across large populations to detect and better understand the causal agents of disease," Hrusovsky said.