“Genomic DNA Extraction - 1 Million Cattle” Application of the Oktopure™ Robot and Sbeadex™ Chemistry for High through-Put DNA Extraction

Weatherbys DNA Laboratory is currently the service provider to the largest global livestock genomics genotyping project for 1 million Irish beef cattle. Fundamental to the success of providing this service is the application of a high through-put DNA extraction procedure. Genotyping large numbers of samples over a short time frame requires a DNA extraction process to efficiently support the genotyping pipeline. The oKtopure ™ automated DNA extraction robot in conjunction with sbeadex ™ chemistry provides DNA extraction to process over 3000 samples a day for downstream analysis on an Illumina^® Infinium platform.