We would like to thank Genomeweb for their recent articles regarding the announcement of our CLIA status. If you missed the articles from Genomeweb you can view them here:  Clinical Exome Sequencing and EdgeBio Recieves CLIA Certification

A few weeks ago we received our CLIA certification for next generation sequencing and will offer clinical exome sequencing for large labs and hospitals that can do their own in-house analysis. We will supply aligned sequencing data and leave the interpretation to the customers themselves.

It was with great anticipation and excitement that we received our Certificate of Compliance yesterday from the US Dept. of Health and Human Services Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. This, paired with our compliance letter from the State of Maryland, means we have been deemed a CLIA lab and can begin to offer our Clinical Exome test under CLIA guidelines. It’s been quite a journey to get here and everyone is quite excited to receive this designation and achieve this milestone.

One of several areas in which we hope we stand out here at EdgeBio is in our up front project design.  There are many people, from our project managers, to lab personnel and management, to our informatics group and even our SAB (See a presentation on Genomic Study Design from Dr. Michael Zody at the Broad) that all play an active role in helping our clients design their genomic projects.  We try to take in to account several global considerations (timelines, technologies, quality, etc) for tailoring each project to the researcher and their goals.  More often than not though, it comes down to cost.  While cheaper is usually not better, it sure is attractive. 

We are excited to introduce the EdgeBio iPad/iPhone app. Stay on top of the latest biotech genomics news/blogs/data.

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The EdgeBio app unifies all digital resources of EdgeBio to deliver a truly enhanced, interactive experience. We bring together all content from the EdgeBio blog (Views from the Edge), our website and online communities in one integrated, easy-to-navigate app. The app is free to download.

Bio IT is around the corner and we will be present. Our Director of Bioinformatics, Justin H. Johnson, will be the Chairperson and a speaker for Thursday, April 26 Track 4 talk/sessions on Bioinformatics & The Cloud. The session is set to begin at 8:40am and Justin will be giving the opening remarks and introducing  these speakers: Ray Fyhr, Project Lead, MRL-IT, Merck and Chuanbin Du, Ph.D., Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, University North Carolina at Charlotte. Our talk begins at 9:45am and Justin will be speaking about The Path Toward a Medical Grade Genome. Please join Justin H. Johnson, Director of Bioinformatics, EdgeBio - Project Lead of Validation Protocol, Archon Genomics X Prize Presented by Express Scripts during this time for some insight on the Archon Genomics X Prize.