Reliable and reproducible microbiome testing in clinical practice requires standardization of methods and comprehensive, representative, up-to-date reference databases. In a new article published in PLOS One, read how SmartGene's BiomeScan Apps for Microbiome analysis and SmartGene's proprietary Centroid reference databases can meet these needs.

For a summary, click here to go to SmartGene's Scientific Publications Section for Microbiology on this website.

We are closely following the epidemiology of the SARS-CoV-2 variants in order to update our reference database, the SARS-CoV-2 Variant Typing Dataset (in our Coronavirus App).

The HIV genotypic drug resistance algorithm within SmartGene for Stanford HIVDB has been updated. 

As a part of the continuous enhancement of our Services, we released a new version of our ASP Platform (IDNS® 5 v3.11.0).  A new version of our NGS pipelines (v2.6.0) also comes with this release.