Partnership
Volta Labs, a genomics applications company, and Watchmaker Genomics, a supplier of innovative products for molecular analysis, partner to leverage their technologies to power Volta’s short-read library prep kits.
Committment
Volta Labs and Watchmaker Genomics are jointly committed to making efficient, accessible, and cost-effective library prep a reality. With the launch of Volta’s Callisto™ Sample Prep System, Watchmaker Genomics will provide the reagents behind various VoltaPrep™ library prep kits.
Trey Foskett, CEO of Watchmaker Genomics
“Volta’s digital fluidics technology and their approach to building automated sample prep applications are impressive. Watchmaker has a passion for delivering superior data quality with simple and automatable workflows. Combining Volta’s cutting-edge technology with our innovative reagents delivers in both of these areas, and we look forward to a continued partnership.”
Udayan Umapathi, CEO at Volta Labs
“Watchmaker has set the bar high for enzyme engineering and library prep workflow development. We are energized to work with their talented team to address quality, cost, and scalability challenges that currently exist in sample prep. This collaboration is the first in a series of Volta applications that will be powered by Watchmaker chemistry.”
Callisto™ Sample Prep System
The Callisto™ Sample Prep System offers programmable, precise, and plastic-free liquid manipulation with pre-optimized applications to support short- and long-read sequencing workflows. With a growing menu of library prep kits powered by Watchmaker Genomics’ solutions, Volta will continue to expand the universe of pre-optimized applications available through Callisto and enable labs to maximize advancements in sequencing.
