Twist Bioscience Launches Human Methylome Panel to Enable Detection of Methylation Fractions in a Diverse Range of Applications

Twist Bioscience Corporation (NASDAQ: TWST), a company enabling customers to succeed through its offering of high-quality synthetic DNA using its silicon platform, today announced the launch of the Twist Human Methylome Panel, a product now available to customers that can advance applications in cancer metastasis, human development and functional genetics. The panel can be used to identify a robust, collated set of CpG sites, methylated cytosine and guanine nucleic bases, across the human genome to identify biologically relevant methylation markers. Compared to traditional array based or whole genome bisulfite sequencing approaches, this panel provides overall cost savings while also covering previously unknown methylation markers. The Twist Human Methylome Panel can also be used as a first pass discovery tool to identify methylation biomarkers that can then be used in a variety of applications, such as more targeted liquid biopsy panels.