Illumina Announces hUMANhAP550+ and iSELECT INFINIUM™ Genotyping Products

Illumina, Inc. has announced the immediate availability of two Infinium genotyping products that provide whole-genome and focused-content SNP genotyping. 

The HumanHap550+ product is designed to allow customers to add up to 120,000 custom SNP markers to supplement the standard content provided on the existing HumanHap550 BeadChip, yielding up to 670,000 markers for association studies. 

For focused-content applications, the iSelect Infinium product allows customers to create a custom array of up to 60,000 SNP markers per sample with 12 samples per chip.  

The multi-sample offering will typically be used by researchers who have already performed whole-genome genotyping and/or have narrowed down SNPs of interest to a large, yet focused set of markers relevant to the particular disease they are studying.

Illumina is offering custom Infinium genotyping solutions as either a product or a service. 

The Company also provides a bioinformatics tool that enables in silico SNP design and screening prior to probe synthesis. 

"These new products highlight the flexibility of the BeadChip format," stated Jay Flatley, Illumina President and CEO. 

"The multi-stripe configuration and versatile gasketing technology developed as part of the BeadChip program allow for rapid production of customer-tailored products, enabling researchers to add custom content to our industry leading HumanHap550 or create fully custom multi-sample chips."