Next Gen Diagnostics
Next Gen Diagnostics (NGD) is dedicated to transforming microbiology diagnostics and infection control through automated, low-cost sequencing and bioinformatics solutions. Founded in 2017 in Cambridge, UK, NGD combines advanced automation with powerful bioinformatics tools to enable real-time outbreak prevention, diagnostics, and resistance mechanism discovery for healthcare, public health, and pharmaceutical sectors. The company offers integrated sequencing services, develops machine learning models for antibiotic susceptibility prediction, and collaborates with various industry and academic partners to advance pathogen genomics and infection control.
Industries
Nr. of Employees
small (1-50)
Next Gen Diagnostics
Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom, Europe
Products
Microfluidic sample-preparation instrument
Microfluidic instrument and associated reagent workflows for automated pathogen sample preparation to feed high-throughput WGS pipelines, reducing cost and hands-on time.
Standard BioTools X9 instrument
A sleek and small microfluidic sample preparation system exclusively licensed to NGD for pathogen sample preparation, taking 4x less bench space than large liquid handling robots and supporting up to 48 samples per automated run.
NGD Dashboard
An information system that displays fully analyzed sequencing results from the previous night, including transmission chains, new cases, antibiogram prediction, and resistome enumeration.
Turnkey 24-Hour WGS Workflow
A highly automated whole-genome sequencing system for detecting pathogen transmission events, combining automated sample preparation and post-sequencing bioinformatic analysis to deliver results for infection control.
Microfluidic Sample Prep
A proprietary, microfluidic, high-throughput, highly-automated sample preparation station performing extraction, library preparation, and barcoding for high-volume sequencing.
Next Gen Diagnostics WGS Infection Control Service
High-volume, low-cost whole-genome sequencing service designed to bring prospective infection control and epidemiological surveillance to hospitals.
Microfluidic sample-preparation instrument
Microfluidic instrument and associated reagent workflows for automated pathogen sample preparation to feed high-throughput WGS pipelines, reducing cost and hands-on time.
Standard BioTools X9 instrument
A sleek and small microfluidic sample preparation system exclusively licensed to NGD for pathogen sample preparation, taking 4x less bench space than large liquid handling robots and supporting up to 48 samples per automated run.
NGD Dashboard
An information system that displays fully analyzed sequencing results from the previous night, including transmission chains, new cases, antibiogram prediction, and resistome enumeration.
Turnkey 24-Hour WGS Workflow
A highly automated whole-genome sequencing system for detecting pathogen transmission events, combining automated sample preparation and post-sequencing bioinformatic analysis to deliver results for infection control.
Microfluidic Sample Prep
A proprietary, microfluidic, high-throughput, highly-automated sample preparation station performing extraction, library preparation, and barcoding for high-volume sequencing.
Next Gen Diagnostics WGS Infection Control Service
High-volume, low-cost whole-genome sequencing service designed to bring prospective infection control and epidemiological surveillance to hospitals.
Services
Deployment of an on-site service that includes automated sample preparation, sequencing and automated bioinformatic analysis delivered with training and consumables to enable rapid transmission detection and outbreak prevention.
Collaborative development and validation of sequence-based diagnostics and machine-learning models to predict antibiotic susceptibility and to investigate resistance mechanisms for drug development and clinical research.
Operational sequencing and bioinformatics services provided from established laboratory locations to support prospective surveillance, research consortia and clinical projects.
Deployment of an on-site service that includes automated sample preparation, sequencing and automated bioinformatic analysis delivered with training and consumables to enable rapid transmission detection and outbreak prevention.
Collaborative development and validation of sequence-based diagnostics and machine-learning models to predict antibiotic susceptibility and to investigate resistance mechanisms for drug development and clinical research.
Operational sequencing and bioinformatics services provided from established laboratory locations to support prospective surveillance, research consortia and clinical projects.
Expertise Areas
- Pathogen whole-genome sequencing for outbreak detection
- Clinical infectious disease genomics and infection prevention
- Genomic epidemiology and SNP-level transmission analysis
- Machine learning models for antibiotic susceptibility prediction
Key Technologies
- Whole-genome sequencing (WGS)
- Automated microfluidic sample preparation
- High-throughput sequencing workflows
- Automated bioinformatics pipelines