SAN DIEGO, Feb. 21, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Bionano Genomics, Inc. (NASDAQ: BNGO), a life sciences instrumentation company that develops and markets Saphyr®, a platform for ultra-sensitive and ultra-specific structural variation detection in genome analysis, announced today that cancer, genetic disease and genomics researchers using the Saphyr system will present their results at the Advances in Genome Biology and Technology (AGBT) Conference taking place February 23 – 26 in Marco Island, Florida.
The impact of Saphyr for genome-wide detection of structural variation will be highlighted at AGBT with a total of 19 oral and poster presentations and talks hosted by Bionano.
Erik Holmlin, Ph.D., CEO of Bionano, commented: “As the capabilities of Saphyr advanced, Bionano users have tackled increasingly complex genomic problems, moving from small scale genetic disease studies to large leukemia cohorts and complex heterogeneous cancer samples, in a variety of cancer types. Bionano has the unique ability to detect structural variants genome-wide, unbiased, down to 1% allele fraction and with industry leading sensitivity and false positive rates. The record number of talks and posters presented at this year’s AGBT conference helps demonstrate that Bionano fills a need that’s unmet by NGS, long-read sequencing and traditional cytogenetics.“
Below is a summary of presentations at the 2020 AGBT Conference featuring the use of Bionano genome imaging technology:
- The Effect of HPV Integration in Head and Neck Cancers
NGS is unable to adequately resolve the genomic changes caused by viral integration in cancers. Dr. Brandon Labarge from Penn State Health and Penn State College of Medicine will present research demonstrating the use of Saphyr to identify structural rearrangements caused by HPV integration and compare it to tumor samples with episomal viral genomes. The talk, entitled “Optical Genomic Mapping Identifies the Structure of Human Papillomavirus Genomes in Head and Neck Cancers”, will be presented on Wednesday, February 26 from 11:10 pm – 11:30 pm in Calusa Ballroom 6-12.
- Complex Rearrangements in Breast, Ovarian and Endometrial Cancers
Complex rearrangements arise frequently in cancer, but their origin and functional impact remains obscure. Dr. Marcin Imielinski from Weill Cornell Medicine of Cornell University will show how Bionano genome imaging helped discover novel structural variant processes in breast, ovarian and endometrial tumors. The talk, entitled “Unraveling the Allelic Structure around Recurrent Complex Structural Variant Patterns in Cancer Using Optical Mapping and Linked-Reads”, will be presented on Wednesday, February 26 from 11:10 pm – 11:30 pm in Calusa Ballroom 6-12.
- NGS Misses Structural Changes in Ovarian Tumors
Dr. Tony Magliocco, CEO of Protean BioDiagnostics, will present on Bionano’s ability to bring better understanding to the genomic mechanisms involved in ovarian cancers. The talk, entitled “Bionano Genome Imaging Uncovers Novel Genomic Structural Alterations in Ovarian Neoplasia Invisible to NGS Approaches: An Important New Genomics Tool for Evaluating the Molecular Basis of Cancer”, will be presented on Tuesday, February 25 from 10:20 am – 11:00 am in Seagrape 3.
- Bionano can Replace a Combination of Current Cytogenetic Techniques in 48 Leukemia Patients
Currently, a comprehensive clinical analysis of genomic aberrations requires a combination of various assays such as CNV-microarrays, karyotyping and fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH). Dr. Alexander Hoischen from Radboud University Medical Center will present data directly comparing traditional cytogenetic assays with Bionano data in 48 leukemia patient samples to illustrate that Bionano genome imaging can identify all aberrations found by the three conventional technologies combined, and additional variants as well. The talk, entitled “Next-Generation Cytogenetics: Revolution for the Analysis of Leukemia, Constitutional Chromosomal Abnormalities and Unsolved Rare Diseases”, will be presented on Monday, February 24 from 7:30 am – 8:45 am in Seagrape 3.
Also, below are some additional presentations featuring Bionano data:
- Uncovering Genomic Inversion Events Using Optical Mapping
To be presented by Christopher M. Grochowski, Baylor College of Medicine, on Monday, February 24 from 7:30 am – 8:45 am in Seagrape 3, and presented as a poster.
- No One Does What Bionano Does: Call Genome-Wide SVs Down to 1% Allele Fraction with the Highest Sensitivities and Lowest False Positives
To be presented by Sven Bocklandt, Ph.D., Bionano Genomics, on Monday, February 24 from 10:20 am – 11:00 am in Seagrape 3.
- Bionano Data Analysis Solutions to Power Your NEXT Big Discovery
To be presented by Alex Hastie, Ph.D., Bionano Genomics, on Monday, February 24 from 10:20 am – 11:00 am in Seagrape 3.
- Genoox Franklin - Tackling the Interpretation Challenge of Structural Variations
To be presented by Amir Trabelsi, Genoox, on Monday, February 24 from 10:20 – 11:00 am in Seagrape 3
- Long-Read, Single-Molecule Maps of the Functional Epigenome: Single-Cell Information without Processing Single Cells.
To be presented by Yuval Ebenstein, Ph.D., Tel Aviv University, on Tuesday, February 25 from 7:30 am – 8:45 am in Seagrape 3, and presented as a poster.
- Optical Mapping with Bionano Genome Imaging for Evaluation of Structural Variants in Genetic Disease.
To be presented by Hayk Barseghyan, Ph.D., Children’s National Hospital, on Tuesday, February 25 from 7:30 am – 8:45 am in Seagrape 3, and presented as a poster.
- Generating High Quality Human Reference Assemblies.
To be presented by Tina Graves-Lindsay, McDonnell Genome Institute, Washington University, on Tuesday, February 25 from 9:10 pm – 9:30 pm in Calusa Ballroom 1-5.
- A comprehensive multi-platform approach for structural variant analysis in a clinical cohort of cancer patients.
To be presented by Camir Ricketts, Weill Cornell Medicine of Cornell University, on Wednesday, February 26 from 10:30 am – 11:10 am in Seagrape 3, and presented as a poster.
- Integrated Analysis of NGS and Optical Mapping Resolves the Complex Structure of Focal Amplifications.
To be presented by Jens Luebeck, University of California, San Diego, on Wednesday, February 26 from 10:30 am – 11:10 am in Seagrape 3, and presented as a poster.
About Bionano Genomics
Bionano is a life sciences instrumentation company in the genome analysis space. The Company develops and markets the Saphyr system, a platform for ultra-sensitive and ultra-specific structural variation detection that enables researchers and clinicians to accelerate the search for new diagnostics and therapeutic targets and to drive the adoption of digital cytogenetics, which is designed to be a more systematic, streamlined and industrialized form of traditional cytogenetics. The Saphyr system comprises an instrument, chip consumables, reagents and a suite of data analysis tools. For more information, visit www.bionanogenomics.com.
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Bionano Genomics, Inc.
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