Shoreline Biome Partners with Inqaba Biotechnical Industries to Accelerate Microbiome Research in Sub-Saharan Africa
Summary
Established in 2002, inqaba biotec is the leading South African distributor of life sciences and molecular diagnostics products from well-known brands as well as a provider of a full range of DNA services. “We are very excited to partner with Shoreline to bring its broad suite of easy-to-use microbiome kits and software to our customers,” said Dr Oliver Preisig, Executive Director at inqaba biotec. “In addition, the precise microbial strain level data we will be able to provide our customers through StrainID services on our own PacBio Sequel IIe System will deliver critical answers to the role the specific microbes play in human health.” “We are proud to partner with inqaba biotec, a premier life sciences distributor and PacBio NGS services provider, to establish both StrainID services to the microbiome community and provide access all of our microbiome solutions in South Africa,” said Thomas Jarvie, Shoreline Biome’s co-Founder and CEO. “Our complete portfolio of tools and software accelerates key breakthroughs in microbiome research by streamlining workflows. Shoreline Biome’s easy-to-use companion analysis software and comprehensive reference database enables straightforward strain-level identification and quantitation of all bacteria in the sample.