Applications
Find your application
Pick your market and application below. Each one shows the idea in a picture, typical use cases and the workflows we have designed for it.
Life sciences
Healthcare
Hospitals, clinical and reference laboratories, IVF centres and blood banks
Research & Public Sector
Universities and research institutes, public-health and provincial reference laboratories, and forensic DNA laboratories
Industrial
Biopharma & Vaccines
Biologics, biosimilar and vaccine manufacturers, and their QC laboratories
Agri-Food & Veterinary
Food processors and exporters, feed mills, farms, poultry and dairy producers, and veterinary laboratories
Know the method rather than the market? Browse technologies → See workflows → Build an NGS workflow →
Oncology & Cancer Genomics
Tumour profiling for diagnosis, prognosis and therapy selection, plus hereditary cancer risk.
Use cases
- Solid-tumour comprehensive profiling
- Hereditary BRCA1/2 and HRD testing
- Haematological malignancies
- Gene fusions from tumour RNA
- ctDNA monitoring
- Pre-chemotherapy DPYD testing
Related workflows
Inherited Disorders
Diagnosis of rare, cardiac, repeat-expansion and single-gene disorders.
Use cases
- Clinical exome for rare disease
- Inherited cardiac conditions
- Fragile X, Huntington and ataxias
- Cystic fibrosis
- Thrombophilia risk
Reproductive Health
Prenatal screening and reproductive genetics.
Use cases
- NIPT for T21 / T18 / T13 and SCA
- Pregnancy-loss and male-infertility testing
- Rapid prenatal aneuploidy
- CF carrier screening
Infectious Disease
Molecular and serological pathogen testing for clinical and veterinary labs.
Use cases
- UTI, HPV and wound pathogen detection
- HIV / HCV drug-resistance genotyping
- Serology
- T-cell immunity (TB, CMV, EBV)
Related workflows
Transplantation & HLA
HLA typing and HLA antibody testing to match donors and recipients and monitor transplant patients.
Use cases
- HLA typing for kidney, liver and stem-cell transplant
- HLA antibody screening and single-antigen identification
- Donor-recipient matching and crossmatch support
- High-resolution HLA by long reads
- HLA disease associations (e.g. HLA-B27, coeliac)
Transfusion Medicine & Blood Groups
Blood-group typing by serology and genotyping for blood banks, and fetal RhD testing in pregnancy.
Use cases
- ABO and RhD grouping with antisera
- Extended blood-group genotyping for multiply transfused patients
- Weak and partial D and rare variants
- Fetal RhD from maternal plasma
Related workflows
Pharmacogenomics
Matching patient metabolism to drug and dose.
Use cases
- Chemotherapy dosing (DPYD)
- Pain and opioid response
- Immunosuppressant metabolism
- ADME genotyping
Related workflows
Genome, Transcriptome & Epigenome Research
Whole genomes, full-length transcripts, methylation and single-cell studies for research groups.
Use cases
- De novo genome assembly
- Structural-variant discovery
- Full-length isoforms (Iso-Seq, Kinnex)
- DNA methylation
- Single-cell RNA-seq
- HLA typing
Immunology & Cell Biology
Immunoassays, antibodies and cell culture for research labs.
Use cases
- Cytokine and biomarker ELISA
- Flow cytometry
- Antibody validation
- Primary and stem cell culture
- Cell-based assays
Protein Science & Gene Function
Express, detect and validate proteins; clone, edit and switch genes on and off.
Use cases
- Recombinant protein expression
- Western blot and In-Cell Western
- Antibody validation
- Cloning and CRISPR editing
Plant & Crop Science
GMO compliance, marker-assisted breeding and crop genomes.
Use cases
- GMO screening of seed and grain
- Marker genotyping for breeding
- Crop reference genomes
- Soil microbiome
Biopharma QC
In-process and release testing for biologics and cell therapies.
Use cases
- Residual host-cell DNA
- Mycoplasma testing
- Potency bioassays
- WHO reference standards
Animal Health & Veterinary
Serology and PCR for poultry, livestock, swine, aquaculture and companion animals.
Use cases
- Poultry flock surveillance (AI, ND, IB, IBD, mycoplasma)
- Cattle, buffalo and small-ruminant herd health
- Swine disease monitoring
- Aquaculture pathogen screening
- Companion-animal PCR panels
Food & Feed Safety
Authenticity, contaminant and allergen testing for processors, exporters and regulators.
Use cases
- Meat species and halal authentication
- Veterinary drug residues in milk, meat, eggs and honey
- Mycotoxins in grain and feed
- Food allergens
- Food pathogens
Planning a new assay or lab?
Share your research goal and the technology you have in mind. A JB Scientific specialist will propose the supplier combination and quantities.