 Summary:
Volta Labs announced its 2025 strategic focus areas, including expanding Callisto App capabilities for RNA and single-cell library prep, supporting multiple sequencers, and rolling out app-specific kits to streamline NGS sample preparation.
Takeaways:
- Users will receive new apps as software updates, alongside app-specific kits that simplify NGS sample prep without requiring specialized training.
- Volta Labs is enhancing Callisto Apps to support RNA, single-cell prep, and additional sequencers like Element AVITI and Oxford Nanopore.
- The company aims to improve sequencing efficiency by reducing redo rates and enabling cost-effective whole genome sequencing.
Volta Labs, a genomics applications company, announced its four strategic focus areas for 2025 and the expansion of the Callisto App menu to include RNA library prep and single-cell prep, and multi-sequencer capabilities.
Key strategic focus areas for Volta Labs in 2025 include:
- Launching DNA, RNA and single-cell preps for all labs
- Enabling rapid, cost effective whole genome sequencing
- Reducing redo rates on sequencing for targeted workflows
- Providing a complete solution for long and short read preps on a single platform
“I’m thrilled to be able to share our Application Roadmap for NGS Sample Prep for the first time at AGBT with the genomics community,” says Abdul Mohammed, founding scientist and head of Product at Volta Labs. “It’s exciting to see, through our customers’ results, how Callisto Apps are helping clinical labs with consistent and cost-efficient whole genome sequencing with Illumina and PacBio. Callisto is also reducing re-do rates on sequencing via our target enrichment approach. We will be rolling out applications spanning total RNA and mRNA library preps, single-cell library preps and expanding to support Element AVITI and Oxford Nanopore sequencers.”
Volta Labs Will Roll Out App-Specific Kits
Existing Callisto users will be receiving all the apps as software updates. Volta Labs will also be rolling out app-specific kits. The RNA library prep kit will include reagents alongside all the plastics to run the workflows. With this expansion of the app and kit portfolio of products, Volta Labs now provides a complete sample prep solution for DNA, RNA and single-cell workflows with Illumina, PacBio, Element and Oxford Nanopore as downstream sequencers. No specialized training is required to run any apps on Callisto.
Volta Apps available now
- DNA Library Prep for Illumina
- PacBio SMRTbell 3.0 Library Prep
- High-molecular weight DNA extraction
- DNA extraction for short read sequencing
- Hybridization Capture for IDT xGEN
- Double-sided Size Selection
Volta Apps launching this year
- Total RNA Library Prep for Illumina
- 10x Genomics 3′ Gene Expression Library Prep
- Oxford Nanopore Ligation-based Library Prep
- Hybridization Capture for Twist
- DNA Library Prep for Element
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