454 Life Sciences and Roche NimbleGen, Inc Announce Collaboration with Eli Lilly and Company and SeqWright to Sequence Genomic Regions Associated with Psychiatric Disease

BRANFORD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--454 Life Sciences, a Roche company, and Roche NimbleGen, both units of Roche Applied Science, have announced a collaboration with Eli Lilly and Company and SeqWright, a world-wide leader in custom genomic and molecular biology services. The goal of this collaboration is to use leading edge genomic technologies to identify genetic variants possibly associated with various psychiatric diseases. SeqWright will utilize NimbleGen Sequence Capture technology to selectively enrich approximately 40 megabases of the human genome, which will then be comprehensively sequenced using 454 Life Sciences’ Genome Sequencer FLX System.