If you are reading the full version of this blog you have undoubtedly found you way to our new and improved website. This is just the first of many changes or new offerings we plan to roll out this year in response to wonderful customer feedback. The new layout was designed to allow first-time visitors and repeat users to find information much more quickly than before. The layout is simpler and much more intuitive. Our navigation bars remain constant ( I know, what a novel concept…) so that you can remember where you are and how you got there. Once you get there, you will see quite a bit of new information regarding the different platforms that we run (Ion Torrent PGM, Illuina HiSeq2000 & Life SOLiD). The data generated off of these platforms are available for download. You can also find a ton of information (and some data to boot!) on the different types of sequencing we do, from ChIP-seq to Whole exome sequencing, to Whole transcriptome sequencing to amplicon resequencing, and everything in between.

On the products side we have made a lot of improvements to our online ordering system. Now shipping charges are estimated in real-time and tracking numbers for outgoing shipments are sent automatically to the customer. Yes, a lot of these “improvements” been standard fare for many websites, but at EdgeBio we are certainly excited to bring this functionality to our customers.

The website is just the start of some growth we are undertaking as a company. Since the start of the year we have increased our staff by almost 25% as we expand to keep up with growing customer demand for our products and services. We’ve hired lab staff, bioinformaticians, Product technical staff and a digital marketing associate to help us navigate a blog from a tweet and how we can leverage social media to get the word out regarding all the cool things we are doing here in Gaithersburg.

I’d like to personally thank the team most responsible for this new website. Led by Justin Johnson, managers Alicia Jones and Tara Bennink did a fantastic job of coordinating information that Steven Davis, Liliana Urrego, and Adam Bennett helped generate. They should all be very proud of what I think is a fantastic new image for Edge on the web.

Tell me what you think. What did we get right? What did we get wrong? How can we improve? What should we do more of? We do all of this to engage you, the community! Thanks for reading the blog and I look forward to your thoughts.

Best,

Dean