Project Aims To Develop Molecular Diagnostics Solution

A three-year project aims to develop an integrated software and hardware solution for molecular diagnostics.

The molecular diagnostics solution will intelligently use the fast and cheap sequencing options that the high-throughput sequencing industry provides, to diagnose rapidly and more precisely patient DNA samples through advanced, user-friendly software.

CLC bio (Aarhus N, Denmark), Ion Torrent (Guilford, CT, USA), and Aarhus University Hospital (Skejby, Denmark) have received a US$2 million grant from the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation for the project.

Ion Torrent's ion personal genome machine (PGM) sequencer does a single run in about an hour or two, which makes the simple, yet scalable technology ideal for this molecular diagnostics project, where time is a critical factor in the patient diagnosis phase.

Roald Forsberg, Ph.D., director of scientific development at CLC bio said, "With our bioinformatics software solutions, we have succeeded in making advanced high-throughput sequencing technologies accessible to biomedical researchers. Now we want to bring the DNA sequencing revolution to the hospitals and clinics, in order to realize the huge potential of high-throughput sequencing within molecular diagnostics, and personalized- and translational medicine."

The project will lead to an IT solution that can be used for clinical diagnostics in hospitals and outpatient clinics as well as for molecular diagnostics research.

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