Ultima Launches

As part of the run-up to Gold sponsorship at AGBT, Ultima Genomics held a multi-day event in early December, with tours of the headquarters facility and factory floor in the Bay Area and a day at a beautiful Wine Country resort. The resort session included talks from the company, early access collaborators and a pair of big name early backers, with a few hundred current customers and many contemplating the leap.   So confident was the company in their product, they even invited abloggerto moderate one of the panel discussions!   The UG100 is now officially launched as a fully commercial product, with ambitions to replace panels, exomes and microarrays with whole genome sequences at $100 apiece.  All in an instrument package designed for continuous industrial-scale operation.  Please note that Ultima did review this pie ce to ensure I didn’t disclose information they did not wish public, but for the most part just gave me some very good proofreading support.  Photos are my own, except as noted.Read more »

Source: Omics! Omics! - February 1, 2024 Category: Bioinformatics Authors: Keith Robison Source Type: blogs