Agilent Technologies launches SureSelectQXT Target Enrichment Kits

Agilent Technologies has announced the launch of its fast and efficient new SureSelectQXT Reagent Kit.

This revolutionary next-generation sequencing target enrichment solution is capable of producing sample-to-sequencing-ready libraries in just seven hours with only 50 ng of input gDNA, ensuring workflows are as quick as possible.

SureSelectQXT kits are three times faster than existing transposase-based methods and require 30 percent less hands-on time. They are also optimised for use with samples of limited availability and provide superior coverage of genomic targets for confident variant calling.

They achieve this speed by coupling transposase-based library preparation with new advances in hybridisation chemistry, thus significantly decreasing hybridisation time from 16 hours to 90 minutes, while maintaining high performance.

Victor Fung, senior director of global marketing for Agilent's diagnostics and genomics division, said: "With SureSelectQXT Reagent kits, researchers can quickly analyse exomes or target-specific genes with superior variant calling accuracy and go from sample to sequencing in the same day."

This comes after the firm announced an agreement last week for global distribution of Cartagenia's cloud-based software for copy number variation analysis.