Tecan collaborates with Element Biosciences to provide benchtop

Tecan and Element Biosciences, Inc are collaborating to offer a true benchtop NGS workflow with MagicPrep™ NGS and the AVITI™ System. The collaboration will bring together Tecan’s automation expertise and Element Biosciences’ unique sequencing technologies, employing proprietary chemistries from both companies to deliver a hands-free NGS solution.

MagicPrep NGS draws on Tecan’s experience in robust liquid handling and NGS to deliver plug and play, walkway preparation of NGS libraries. This solution fits with the Element Biosciences AVITI benchtop sequencer, and the collaboration will allow direct conversion of libraries on the MagicPrep NGS – without amplification and with no reduction in quality – using the Adept™ Library Compatibility Kit v1.1.

Klaus Lun, PhD, Executive Vice President and Head of the Life Sciences Division at Tecan, said, “We are excited to be working with Element Biosciences, using our complementary expertise to bring automated library preparation to even more researchers. This partnership will allow customers from both our companies to take advantage of hands-free library preparation with the MagicPrep NGS system and reap the benefits it offers for low throughput applications.”

Matthew Kellinger, PhD, Vice President of Biochemistry and Co-Founder, Element Biosciences, added, “The Element AVITI System generates high-quality data across all sequencing metrics when combined with Tecan’s MagicPrep NGS. This provides a powerful combination of automated convenience with AVITI’s industry-leading performance and operating cost.”

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