Mission Bio, South San Francisco, Calif, a pioneer in targeted single-cell DNA analysis and precision genomics, has launched its Tapestri Designer, the first automated, Cloud-based tool for designing targeted single-cell DNA custom panels.

The easy-to -use, self-service interface reduces design time for custom panels from weeks to just minutes, positioning the Tapestri platform as the only customizable single-cell DNA targeted solution for high-impact applications.

When studying genomic heterogeneity at the single-cell level, customization offers flexibility to target the relevant regions of interest, maximize data quality for those regions, and then tailor sequencing budgets and analysis time. With Tapestri single-cell DNA targeted custom panels, researchers and clinicians have the flexibility to focus on tens to hundreds of impactful genetic mutations over thousands of cells, without sacrificing data quality. Furthermore, targeted custom panels dramatically reduce the high cost that is often associated with single-cell experiments while keeping analysis simple and cost-effective, enabling routine adoption of single-cell sequencing.

The traditional customization process is manual and iterative, requiring the work of a skilled bioinformatician and taking anywhere from weeks to months to finalize. Tapestri Designer simplifies customization with the first Cloud-based platform that enables customers to easily create custom panels in minutes. The intuitive interface of Tapestri Designer enables researchers to complete custom designs with three easy steps: set-up the account; upload a CSV file or enter a gene, ID, or coordinate targets; and submit the design to receive results within minutes.

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Charlie Silver, Mission Bio.

Launch of the product is the first step in a larger effort by Mission Bio to incorporate artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms into the Tapestri platform. With dynamic improvements to panel design and performance through Tapestri Designer, Mission Bio continues to advance the understanding of disease to guide research and patient care.

“You can think of Tapestri Designer as the 3D printer for single-cell DNA panels,” explains Charlie Silver, cofounder and CEO at Mission Bio. “What once took weeks or months and a bioinformatician is now a self-service Cloud platform that can be used to by research teams to create panels tailored to specific experiments and needs, all on demand. This automated capability cuts out the middleman, streamlining the process and empowering researchers to improve their understanding of cancer, inform treatment options, and, ultimately, save patient lives.”

In addition to unlocking pent-up demand for custom panels, Mission Bio has expanded regional sales into Europe to meet burgeoning international interest. Mission Bio has secured partnerships with three key research institutions: VIB, a leading research institute in Belgium; the Cancer Research Center of Toulouse; and Saint Louis Hospital. The company’s partnerships with key European research institutions will enable it to scale Tapestri’s footprint, empowering researchers to deliver on the promise of precision medicine worldwide.

“We are excited to add the Tapestri platform to our single-cell accelerator program,” says Toon Swings, life science technology specialist at VIB tech watch and project lead for the implementation of the Mission Bio technology. “This technology now allows us to profile mutational heterogeneity at the single-cell level, which is essential to unlock the secrets of cancer progression and therapy resistance. Tapestri Designer is pioneering to the whole single-cell field. It is incredibly easy to use, and it has significantly reduced our design turnaround time. This is essential as we plan to run several custom panels across a variety of cancer indications on the Tapestri platform.”

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Featured image: The Tapestri Designer from Mission Bio.