MARCY L’ETOILE, France & SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--bioMérieux, a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics, and Illumina (Nasdaq: ILMN), a world leader in genomics, announce the launch of bioMérieux EpiSeq™, an innovative next-generation sequencing (NGS) service dedicated to the epidemiological monitoring and control of healthcare-associated infections. The bioMérieux EpiSeqTM service is the first result of the collaboration agreement signed by bioMérieux and Illumina in November 2014 bringing together the companies’ respective leadership positions in microbiology and NGS to jointly develop applications for microbiology sequencing.
