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DNA Software announces launch of PanelPlex
June 9, 2017
DNAS releases PanelPlex Infectious disease molecular diagnostic(MDx) assays require rapid identification of pathogens and their drug resistance profiles in clinical samples use a highly multiplexed molecular approach. The market pull for such MDx assays has led to the software solution,... Read more ›
DNA Software receives FastTrack award
April 24, 2017
DNA Software receives FastTrack award ANN ARBOR, MICH. – At its annual meeting, Ann Arbor SPARK presented its annual FastTrack awards to 17 Washtenaw County-based companies that have demonstrated fast growth. Several of the 2016 and 2017 FastTrack award recipients... Read more ›
DNAS cited in Science Advances
February 22, 2017
DNAS cited in Science Advances Early identification of pathogens is essential for limiting development of therapy-resistant pathogens and mitigating infectious disease outbreaks. Most bacterial detection schemes use target-specific probes to differentiate pathogen species, creating time and cost inefficiencies in identifying... Read more ›
Copy Number Variation Case Study – Assure-CNV
October 4, 2016
Increase Accuracy of Assure-CNV A world class agricultural company compared the capabilities of Assure-CNV to their current workflow. This customer found Assure-CNV increased accuracy with 12 standard deviations versus the 8 provided by their traditional method. Their standard workflow also... Read more ›
Antisense Webinar Transcript
April 29, 2016
Better Antisense Design Without the Trial and Error: Problems we Solve Most researchers use naïve strategies to design antisense oligonucleotides. However, to maximize assay sensitivity and specificity one must consider probe and target sequence and their respective and combined chemistries. ... Read more ›
The Real Cost of Multiplex
April 29, 2016
Real Cost of Multiplex This conversation is consistent with our feedback from customers throughout the years. Building a successful multiplex is hard, expensive and time-consuming. Often times we work with customers after they’ve already tried “going it alone”. We unfortunately... Read more ›
DNA Software partnership with Insilixa
March 10, 2016
InSilixa Inc. and DNA Software Inc. enter into agreement to develop state-of-the-art high-multiplex infectious disease panels for commercialization on InSilixa’s CMOS biochip platform See press coverage at Genome Web Infectious disease molecular diagnostic (MDx) assays developed in partnership with inSilixa... Read more ›
How do you design a successful multiplex PCR?
October 7, 2015
How do you design a successful multiplex PCR? This question has been a common theme among DNAS customers since our inception 15 years ago. Whether the multiplex is used as a molecular diagnostic or for gene enrichment libraries... Read more ›
DNA Software introduces the full commercial release of ThermoBLAST Cloud Edition (TB-CE).
July 25, 2015
ThermoBLAST Cloud Edition Overview ThermoBLAST Cloud Edition (TB-CE) provides a new standard for evaluating the target specificity of oligonucleotides during PCR primer or probe design. Everybody is familiar with the capabilities of NCBI BLAST, but there are no thermodynamic results and lots of... Read more ›
Counting PCR: A new method to obtain absolute DNA copy number without a standard curve
July 21, 2015
John SantaLucia, Jr. and Gregory J. Boggy DNA Software, Inc., Ann Arbor MI 48104 Abstract DNA Software has discovered how to analyze the shape of a PCR curve to reveal the absolute copy number of DNA at cycle zero. This... Read more ›