On Thursday January 16th the CEO of BaseClear, Bas Reichert, was appointed as the new chairman for the Entrepreneurial Association of the Bio Science Park during the Leiden Bio Science Park New Year’s Reception. He takes over from Harry Flore, …
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This year the RAP architecture public’s choice award was awarded to the Nucleus Building, designed by architecture firm Popma & ter Steege. The jury comments on this building: “The architecture has been worked out with great care and with great …
Read more The new Nucleus building of BaseClear has been nominated for the RAP architecture prize, a bi-annual prize that is awarded by the Rijnlands Architecture Platform (RAP). The building is one of the nine finalists that have been selected from a …
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Microbes are central to the processes BaseClear’s clients work with. Often in these processes it is not a single species or strain that does the job, but rather a community of microorganisms that coexist in an environment. These populations play …
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BaseClear has updated the VITEK® MS Knowledge Base (KB) to Version 3.2.0. Now with Brucella, Candida auris and Elizabethkingia anophelis, the VITEK® MS database is consistently expanding to bring new emerging pathogens and clinically relevant species. BaseClear uses the VITEK® …
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Next generation sequencing (NGS) is the collective name for a group of amazingly fast and relative inexpensive techniques for reading DNA codes from living and dead organisms. Front-runners in this market must continually move forward because the technology is developing …
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Researchers with no or limited access to Genomics (including Next-Generation sequencing approaches) or Bioinformatics can now apply for a subsidy up to €30.000 in the Enabling Technologies Hotels (ETH) program. The ETH program aims to stimulate the collaboration between researchers …
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On Tuesday April 23, 2019, BaseClear received the BREEAM excellent certificate for the Nucleus building. BREEAM is a code for a sustainable built environment. With four out of five stars, the BREEAM Excellent is the second highest level of the …
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On March 21st, 2019 BaseClear received the new ISO/IEC 17025 scope which now includes Next-Generation sequencing. The ISO/IEC 17025 accreditation is granted to laboratory tests that meet internationally validated quality requirements. Accredited laboratories show proven technical competency and work according …
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On April 2-3 the BaseClear team attended the 5th edition of the Dutch Bioinformatics & Systems Biology (BioSB) conference in Lunteren. The BioSB 2019 conference discussed the latest developments in bioinformatics, systems and computational biology and interrelated disciplines, and their wide-ranging …
Read more BaseClear has significantly increased its sequencing capacity with the implementation of the Illumina NovaSeq 6000 platform. This new NGS platform has a tremendous data output of up to 3.000 Gb data per run. As of January 18th, 2019, BaseClear will …
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BaseClear, one of the pioneers at the Leiden Bio Science Park, celebrated its 25th anniversary on Thursday 11 October. At this celebration, the new, high-tech and sustainable laboratory on the Sylviusweg was officially opened by the mayor of Leiden. With …
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