Advanced Genomics: Your Partners in Innovative and Emerging Technologies

We offer bespoke Advanced Genomic Services tailored for your projects including 3D genomics, single-cell biology, Olink and more. Leverage our expertise and enhance your lab’s capabilities through the support of the post-doctoral scientists in our Innovation and Development team.

Access our state-of-the-art technology platforms and apply novel techniques to your research project and accelerate your discoveries.

Oxford Nanopore Technologies

Nanopore sequencing works by passing DNA strands through a protein pore in a membrane. As the DNA passes through, changes in the ionic current through the pores is measured (picoAmps scale). The different size of each nucleotide passing though the pore creates differential changes in current levels, providing a signal for base-calling. 

Oxford Nanopore Technologies sequencing can provide very long reads (hundreds of kilobases) and high yield of data for large genome sequencing projects.

AGRF offers Nanopore sequencing on the MinION and PromethION platforms for scalable outputs suited to your research needs for applications including 

• Long-read metagenomic sequencing

• Characterisation of large structural variants

• de novo assembly

• Direct RNA or cDNA sequencing 

10x Genomics Single Cell Technology

The 10X Next GEM technology creates a unique reagent delivery system that partitions cells or nuclei and prepares sequencing libraries in parallel such that all fragments produced within a partition share a common barcode. This process ensures that a sample maintains its single cell characteristics, with each barcode enabling a fragment to be traced back to its cell or nucleus of origin.

AGRF offers single cell solutions on the Chromium X. The platform can partition hundreds of thousands of fresh, frozen or fixed cells in a single run, and can handle a range of projects, from pilot studies to the highest throughput analysis. The instrument is compatible with all 10X Genomics single cell assays, allowing for the capture of molecular read-outs of cell activity including:

• Gene expression

• Chromatin accessibility

• Cell surface proteins

• Immune clonotype

• CRISPR perturbation screens

Honeycomb Biotechnologies HIVE Single Cell Technology

The HIVE is a portable, handheld, single-use device that enables gentle capture, robust storage, and easy processing for the analysis of single-cell samples. Cells in a suspension are loaded into the HIVE and allowed to gently settle into the individual wells of the picowell array, each containing a barcoded capture bead. When the cells are separated, a cell preservation solution is added to stabilize the RNA. The HIVEs can then be stored in the freezer and shipped when ready for processing.

AGRF offers the HIVE CLX Single Cell RNA Sequencing solution, which provides the following features and benefits, ideal for previously challenging applications:

·       Fragile cell recovery, such as granulocytes (neutrophils, eosinophils, basophils).

·       Collecting samples in a low-resource setting.

·       Overcoming sample collection logistics:

o   Due to sporadic sample availability, such as clinical samples.

o   Samples with lower cell input and/or cell concentration, such as those from biopsies, swabs, BALs, and FNAs.