The Shasta Single-Cell System, an automated high-throughput NGS solution, has been launched. This new system is designed to enable novel biomarker discovery in oncology research. The company claims the system allows researchers to mine more genomic and transcriptomic information from many more cells than is possible with current technologies, while saving time and costs for research groups. The company states the Shasta system increases WGA throughput to 1,500 cells per run, and with its total RNA-seq application, the system detects more RNA biotypes with high sensitivity at high throughput—up to 100,000 cells per run—which is an improvement over both plate-based full-length RNA-seq and high-throughput mRNA-seq methods.
