GenomicsNext is a hybrid capture, comprehensive ctDNA profiling platform combining genomic alterations and inferred gene expression from a single sample.
By defining DNA fragmentation patterns in blood, GenomicsNext allows a single, comprehensive genomic-profiling hybrid-capture platform to deliver alterations (i.e., SNVs, Indels, CNVs, fusions, MSI, TMB), as well as expression-based traits such as expression of specific high-value targets (e.g., HER2, ER, etc.), intrinsic subtypes, predictive and prognostic gene expression signatures, and novel biomarkers.
Established and future applications of GenomicsNext include:
- ctDNA alteration testing (i.e., SNVs, Indels, CNVs, fusions, MSI, TMB)
- Companion diagnostics for expression-driven therapies (e.g., ADC targets)
- Algorithms for
- tissue of origin
- subtypes
- proliferation status
- tumor fraction
- germline/somatic origin
- primary/metastatic origin
- Gene expression signatures
- Multimodal MRD, screening, and resistance monitoring
- Biomarker discovery using expression-like data matrices
- Novel variant-expression associations
Because gene alteration and fragmentomics information are complementary, the second dimension added by DNA fragment profiling enables DNA sequencing to extend across a full range of liquid biopsy applications – including many with unmet clinical need today.