Sequins built for the human genome.

Design.

Next generation sequencing has become a central tool in biomedical research and clinical diagnosis. However, the complexity of the human genome, combined with errors that accumulate during NGS, confound accurate analysis and diagnosis.

Sequins are synthetic DNA standards that are ‘spiked-in’ to your DNA sample, and act as internal controls during genome sequencing. Sequins allow you to identify errors, measure diagnostic performance and improve the analysis of every NGS library.

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Use.

Sequins are added at a fractional concentrion (typcally ~1%) to a human DNA sample. The sample and sequins then together undergo library preparation and sequencing. As the sequins accompany the sample through the NGS workflow, they accumulate the same errors and bias.

Following sequencing, the sequin reads can be distinguished from the human reads by their synthetic sequence in the output library. The sequins can then be analyzed as internal qualitative and quantitative controls.

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Analyse.

Sequins allow you to measure the diagnostic performance for detecting different variant types in each individual NGS library. Sequins can also measure and mitigate technical variation, enabling more accurate normalization between large patient cohorts.

Sequins can also be integrated with laboratory information systems to routinely monitor laboratory and bioinformatic performance, and thereby inform operational decisions.

These analysis (and more) can be performed using the anaquin software toolkit.