GAITHERSBURG, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--OpGen, Inc., a microbial genomics solutions company, announced the launch of the Argus™ Optical Mapping System for microbial whole genome analysis at the ASM 2010 General Meeting held in San Diego, CA May 23-27, 2010. The Argus™ Optical Mapping System is based on Optical Mapping Technology which generates ordered, whole genome restriction maps from single DNA molecules. Unlike current methods, Optical Mapping is not a gel-based, PCR-based or sequencing-based approach. It is a unique technology for generating whole genome, high resolution restriction maps that can be used in strain typing, comparative genomics and whole genome sequence assembly.
