Takara Bio Europe Shasta Single-Cell System

Takara Bio Europe’s Shasta Single-Cell System is a cutting-edge, high-throughput NGS solution that enables novel biomarker discovery in oncology research. The comprehensive system combines well-validated chemistries with user-friendly bioinformatics tools, which should allow researchers to mine more genomic and transcriptomic information from a greater number of cells than previously possible.

Together, the Shasta system and Shasta Whole-Genome Amplification (WGA) Kit can increase throughput for WGA by processing up to 1500 cells per run, while current technologies are limited to 384 single cells, and enable the detection of single-cell level CNV events via shallow sequencing. The Shasta Total RNA-Seq Kit, a high-throughput single-cell total RNA profiling kit, meanwhile offers full gene body coverage of up to 100,000 cells per run.