Automate Your Library Prep
Automating library preparation can help increase your lab's efficiency and generate more consistent results. Automation can also help you maintain turnaround times, despite expanding sample workloads. To aid with adopting NGS automation, methods for many of our library prep assays are available from the leading automation companies. Our partners offer a range of automation platforms to address your laboratory's throughput needs.
Both Illumina and our partners have created methods to address the increasing range of automation products and library prep. Methods created by a partner are tested, distributed, and typically supported by that partner. Illumina-developed methods are distributed by Illumina and are usually supported by our partners.
Illumina Qualified Methods are available for several of our library prep kits. We verify that libraries created with these methods perform comparably to manually prepared libraries. These methods are developed by partners who test for functional performance and provide distribution and support. Under the Illumina Qualified program, our partners develop, test and support methods while Illumina provides technical guidance and data review only.
TruSight Qualified is a new category of automation methods where Illumina is more involved with the development, testing and support of oncology-based automated solutions. The goal is to provide an improved experience with automation and our oncology-based library prep products. TruSight Qualified methods are developed by a team consisting of both Illumina and partner automation specialists and are based on the design verification acceptance criteria of each assay. Increased testing and reproducibility studies help demonstrate and characterize the automated method performance. Some examples of additional testing include thermal profile studies for plate incubations, reagent stability and instrument-to-instrument reproducibility studies. To up-level the customer experience, Illumina is now providing first-line support for the TruSight Qualified methods. This includes determining the proper support channel, managing technical issue communications, and ensuring final resolution between Illumina, customers, and partners.
We make it easy to automate your library prep. The vendors below have methods designed for Illumina kits, eliminating the time and effort needed to develop your own method.
| Agilent | Beckman Coulter | Eppendorf | Hamilton | PerkinElmer | Tecan | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Illumina Stranded Total RNA | Biomek i7 | epMotion 5075t | NGS STAR | Sciclone | Fluent | |
| Illumina Stranded mRNA | epMotion 5075t | NGS STAR | Sciclone | |||
| Illumina RNA Prep with Enrichment | Biomek i7 | epMotion 5075t | NGS STAR | Sciclone | ||
| Illumina DNA PCR Free | Biomek i5 Biomek i7 |
epMotion 5075t | NGS STAR | Sciclone Janus |
Fluent | |
| Illumina DNA Prep | Bravo Option B | Biomek FXp Biomek iSeries |
epMotion 5075t | NGS STAR | Sciclone | Freedom EVO NGS |
| Illumina DNA Prep with Enrichment | Bravo Option B | Biomek iSeries | epMotion 5075t | NGS STAR | Sciclone | Freedom EVO NGS |
| Nextera XT DNA | Bravo Option B | Biomek FXp Biomek iSeries |
epMotion 5075t | NGS STAR | Sciclone | Freedom EVO NGS |
| AmpliSeq for Illumina* | Biomek i5 | epMotion 5075t epMotion 5073 |
NGS STAR NGS STARlet |
Sciclone | ||
| TruSight Oncology 500HT | Biomek i7 | NGS STAR with 96 MPH/SBS STAR MOA | ||||
| TruSight Oncology 500 | Biomek NXp Biomek i5 |
NGS STAR/SBS STAR LSA | ||||
| TruSight Tumor 15 | Biomek 4000 | epMotion 5075t | Zephyr | |||
| TruSight Tumor 170 | Biomek NXp | NGS STAR | ||||
| TruSeq DNA PCR-Free | Bravo Option B | Biomek FXp | epMotion 5075t | NGS STAR | Sciclone NGS and NGSx | Freedom EVO NGS |
| TruSeq Nano DNA | Bravo Option B | Biomek FXp Biomek iSeries |
epMotion 5075t | NGS STAR | Sciclone NGS and NGSx | Freedom EVO NGS |
| TruSeq RNA Exome | Bravo Option B | Biomek FXp Biomek iSeries |
epMotion 5075t | NGS STAR | Sciclone NGS and NGSx | Freedom EVO NGS |
| TruSeq RNA Fusion | epMotion 5075t | NGS STAR | ||||
| TruSeq RNA Pan Cancer | ||||||
| TruSeq RNA v2 | Biomek FXp | Sciclone NGS and NGSx | ||||
| TruSeq Stranded mRNA | Bravo Option B | Biomek FXp Biomek iSeries |
epMotion 5075t | NGS STAR | Sciclone NGS and NGSx | Freedom EVO NGS |
| TruSeq Stranded Total RNA | Bravo Option B | Biomek FXp | epMotion 5075t | NGS STAR | Sciclone NGS and NGSx | Freedom EVO NGS |
| 16S rRNA | epMotion 5075t epMotion 5073 |
NGS STAR |
Illumina Qualified (Illumina analysis has shown that libraries prepared with these methods perform comparably to those prepared manually)
Documentation: user guide and / or app note available from our partners
TruSight Qualified (Co-develops, tests and triages initial support requests for these methods)
Starting in January 2022 Hamilton will refer to the NGS STAR configuration for TruSight Oncology library preparations as the SBS STAR LSA. All existing Illumina Qualified methods are backwards compatible and will continue to run on this system as this change is in name only.
*In order to accommodate for higher dead volume requirements associated with automated platforms and variation in overfill volumes by the original reagent manufacturer, more than one AmpliSeq for Illumina kit may be required when preparing the maximum number of libraries per kit.
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