Customer Success Stories

Paragon Genomics has streamlined our workflow, from assay design and optimization to laboratory implementation. Their expertise helped us successfully implement a fully automated process using a custom-designed CleanPlex UMI panel, enabling low variant allele frequency (VAF) detection critical for our projects. Paragon’s excellent bioinformatics services and customer support services were key to achieving our goals.

We’re using Paragon’s CleanPlex and CleanPlex UMI technologies to sequence RNA viruses. These technologies enable us to rapidly and cost-effectively obtain complete viral genomes from clinical samples with low viral content. Further analyses of viral genomes, including the identification of minor variants, elucidates viral diversity and evolution. Paragon has enthusiastically worked with us to tackle this new application; they have diligently designed panels to our specifications, meeting with us frequently to optimize the design.

“We have used the CleanPlex SARS-CoV-2 Panel for our COVID-19 wastewater surveillance program in Southern Nevada. The NGS panel has provided high sequencing coverage for emerging variants in our community and we are pleased with the ease and consistency of the workflow and results, respectively”

When we decided to choose a sequencing platform, we had several choices and I am delighted that we chose Paragon Genomics. Paragon Genomics has enabled us to move our sequencing in-house with an affordable and easy-to-use product. They assisted us every step along the way from choosing the amplicons, to guiding us through library preparation to assisting with analysis. I strongly recommend their CleanPlex^® amplicon-based targeted sequencing approach and could not be happier with their product.

“The laboratory, bioinformatics and administrative staff at Paragon Genomics have helped save time and effort on numerous occasions during our COVID-19 project development. Supportive collaboration with PG has played an integral role in learning more about the transmission dynamics of this dangerous new coronavirus.”

Note: Prof. Peter Zimmerman, Dr. Ricky Chan and Dr. Curtis Donskey and their research team members at Case Western Reserve University and the Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Administration Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio have used Paragon’s CleanPlex SARS-CoV-2 and FLEX Panel to perform outbreak investigations involving hospital staff, patients and support personnel. Studies published to-date have investigated COVID-19 outbreaks in the VA Hospital Emergency Department (PMID: 33941299 DOI: 10.1017/ice.2021.208) and virus transmission during patient transport in commuter vans (PMCID: PMC8135457).

I was very impressed by how well the CleanPlex SARS-CoV-2 panel worked when we evaluated it back in March. Working with Paragon Genomics, we were able to leverage the panel to quickly launch a SARS-CoV-2 whole-genome sequencing assay and used it effectively for a number of genomic epidemiology studies. We have sequenced thousands of positive COVID 19 samples, which revealed a tremendous amount of viral genetic diversity.

Paragon Genomics designed a high-quality NGS custom panel for us within two weeks. Its CleanPlex^® targeted library technology is fast and easy to use with great PCR uniformity and on-target rate. We are very satisfied by CleanPlex product performance and the superb technical and customer support provided by the Company.

As a service provider and distributor company, it is crucial for us to fulfill inquiries coming from our customer in a fast and reliable manner. Paragon Genomics’ custom design and production pipeline has shown itself very useful to expand our portfolio and services in a very short time. Their CleanPlex^® assays are robust and work directly from the start with a uniform coverage distribution and the ability to design single gene or small gene panels as well as larger panels makes CleanPlex a flexible tool.

We are looking for a ‘future proof method’, a better way to do high throughput screening at a species level diagnosis. Paragon Genomics has developed a rapid 2.5-hour library preparation allowing multi-gene methodology, letting us look at lots of unique loci across multiple genomes. It offers a ‘one and done’ approach instead of many different disconnected experiments.

Fruit and vegetable industries in the continental US are under constant threat by invasive pest fruit flies, many of which cannot be identified using morphology alone. When flies or their larvae are intercepted, regulatory agencies need to quickly identify what species they are dealing with and where they came from. USDA-ARS and University of Hawaii are developing genomic tools for these tasks. Paragon Genomics’ CleanPlex^® technology allows us to target thousands of highly-informative genomic regions is a single panel, thus integrating species identification and source determination. The 2.5-hour library preparation time combined with robust reaction chemistry for low quality samples means that these tools can be used quickly and efficiently.