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Arbor Biosciences, formerly MYcroarray, is a biotech company specializing in custom solutions for synthetic biology and NGS target enrichment. Cell-free protein expression has become a tool in many biology fields ranging from synthetic biology to industrial biomanufacturing.Next-generation sequencing (NGS) capture technologies are used in genetic sequencing of ancient DNA (aDNA) and degraded samples.
Arbor Biosciences is providing free kits for sequencing virus samples during the COVID-19 pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2. The kit called myBairs Expert for SARS-CoV-2 retrieves and isolated fragments of the virus genome from samples like blood from a person or animal. Known portions of the SARS-CoV-2 sequence are used as “baits” to capture fragments and software is used to reconstruct the viral genome sequence. The kit is designed for studying epidemiological and phylogenetic properties of SARS-CoV-2.