Omixon Upgrade Holotype HLA to 7 Loci

27/02/2015

Omixon announce that Holotype HLA™, a HLA genotyping product that is NGS-based and provides the most complete and accurate characterization of the HLA genes, will be extended from five to seven HLA loci. Launched with five loci (HLA-A, B, C, DRB1, DQB1) in October 2014, and currently available under...

High Accuracy and High Precision HLA Typing Using Illumina Reads: Typing Algorithm and Perspectives on Novel Allele Discovery

24/02/2015

Authors: György Horváth, Krisztina Rigó, Tim Hague, Attila Bérces, Szilveszter Juhos Abstract: Wide acceptance of high-throughput next-generation sequencers in medicinal genomics and clinics brought the promise of fast HLA typing. We are presenting the algorithmic challenges and workflow of HLA typing with a special attention to ambiguous or poorly...

Omixon Now Offering ABHI Accreditation Points

02/02/2015

We are very proud to announce that Omixon is now offering Continued Education Credits (CEC’s) for its Omixon Academy Training Series 2015, as recently approved by the American Board of Histocompatibility & Immunogenetics (ABHI). During 2015, the Omixon Academy will host a series of webinars, workshops, demonstrations and onsite training for...

A Case Study for HLA Typing in Clinics: Reproducibility and Flowspace Alignment of NGS Reads

28/01/2015

Authors: Krisztina Rigó, György Horváth, Szilveszter Juhos, Sabine Canivet, Philippe Pellet, Abdelali Boudifa, Veronique Bertrand, Ioannis Theodorou Abstract: Long reads produced by Roche 454 sequencers are used for HLA typing for quite a while. Having long reads it is easier to determine the phase, but homopolymer errors are bringing...

2014 – Blog Posts Of The Year

16/01/2015

It’s already the middle of January, so before the new year steadily sets in, we’d like to have a quick look back on the route we just came, not long ago. Omixon had an amazing and very successful 2014. We launched our brand new product Holotype HLA™, opened first offices in...