Next Generation Sequencing

 

New Next Generation Sequencing panels database on Eurogentest
 
Eurogentest is now building a next-generation sequencing (NGS) panel database with the aim of adapting the Clinical Utility Gene Cards (CUGC) into NGS technologies. In this database whose key function will be the quick identification of diagnostic options according to the different search terms: disease, gene, OM IM number, panel name, provider and Orpha number. It will include “NGS providers including panel name, tested genes and disease of interest” which will also facilitate determining overlab of tested genes by comparison. Eurogentest identified the NGS providers through a web search using the web search engine Google, focussing on European NGS providers initially. According to Eurogentest “as of October 11 2013, 25 identified laboratories have launched a total of 776 clinical NGS tests covering 2236 genes and 1114 diseases”. The list will be updated regularly a prototype of which is available on their website: Eurogentest website.