“Boston Children’s Hospital, along with Broad Clinical Labs and Roche Sequencing Solutions, has demonstrated that rapid genomic sequencing and interpretation are achievable in a matter of hours. This milestone not only sets a Guinness World Records for the fastest human whole genome sequencing to date but represents a significant clinical development that would expedite more precise treatments for critically ill babies in the NICU…

Broad Clinical Labs team used Roche Sequencing Solutions’ sequencing by expansion (SBX) prototype to sequence and analyze 15 human samples, including five historical cases from the Boston Children’s Manton Center (where Dr. Wojcik is the Medical Director) and seven from the Boston Children’s NICU.

They achieved remarkable speed in processing the samples, with the fastest taking less than four hours to get data on the genetic variants from the extracted DNA.”

From Medical Xpress.