LEXOGEN
Empowering our customers with innovative RNA analysis solutions and NGS services.
About Lexogen
Lexogen develops innovative technologies such as 3’ mRNA-Seq, which have been widely adopted by thousands of scientists worldwide. In addition, we offer end-to-end solutions for RNA analysis and NGS sequencing. Lexogen provides fully customizable NGS Services, which include everything from experimental design to bioinformatics.
Our mission
Empower our customers with innovative top quality RNA analysis solutions & support, in order to improve health and well-being for everyone and our planet.
Lexogen imperatives (our mindset and values)
FAIRNESS
FAIRNESS
LOVE
LOVE
FUN
FUN
INNOVATION
INNOVATION
SIMPLICITY
SIMPLICITY
Our vision (We want to become…)
THE RNA EXPERTS
The best company to work for and with.
Our company’s guiding principles
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What is so intriguing about the transcriptome?
Grasshoppers are gentle creatures with brilliant green color and mild temper who mostly enjoy their solitude and live in good harmony with neighbors in the environment. But the other brood, the locust, forms huge swarms, darkens the sky, and greedily devours whatever is on their way, sometimes scaring people and frowning the eyebrows of farmers.
What is fascinating is that these two creatures are actually one species, and they share exactly the same genetic information stored in the form of DNA. Under a certain condition, the grasshoppers turn their color into light brown, their legs become short and spiky, and the wings grow to adapt to cover the long distance of swarm travel, becoming one of the most greedy and aggressive populations on earth.
You don’t need to go far away into the jungle of Africa to see such examples, because even in the human body we can observe similar things, like cancer cells which originate from healthy cells with identical genetic information in DNA. What contributes the most to this Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde process is the RNA, or transcription of genomes, which is called transcriptome.
The transcriptome has long been considered as a key for answering many of the questions in genetics, biology and medicine, extending far beyond central dogma. However its applications have been limited due to technical difficulties, and not much was known about it until recent advancements in the Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technology. Thanks to NGS, we expect to have a much larger amount of RNA data than what we have accumulated so far in the history of biology.
Milestones
2024
2023
December 2023
Release of Kangooroo – Lexogen data analysis platform
Release of QuantSeq 3’ mRNA-Seq V2 Library Prep Kit REV
November 2023
Release of LUTHOR High-Definition Single-Cell 3′ mRNA-Seq Library Prep Kit
July 2023
Release of PCR Add-on and Reamplification Kit V2
May 2023
Release of RNA/DNA Defender Solution
2022
October 2022
Release of QuantSeq with UDI V2 library preparation kits
September 2022
Release of RiboCop for Yeast
April 2022
Release of CORALL RNA-Seq V2 Kits
2021
May 2021
Release of BC1 Block Module for QuantSeq FWD
Upgrade of QuantSeq Flex First Strand Synthesis Module
Lexogen gains ISO 9001:2015 quality management certification
2020
December 2020
Release of CORALL mRNA-Seq Library Prep Kit
November 2020
Release of Lexogen’s Novel SARS-CoV-2 Test for Ultra-high-throughput Testing
October 2020
Release of LUTHOR 3’ mRNA-Seq Library Prep Kit
September 2020
Upgrade of RiboCop rRNA Depletion Kit for Human/Mouse/Rat (HMR) V2 and release of RiboCop rRNA Depletion Kit for Human/Mouse/Rat plus Globin (HMR+Globin)
August 2020
Release of QuantSeq-Pool Sample-Barcoded 3′ mRNA-Seq Library Prep Kit for Illumina
July 2020
Release of SIRV-Set 4
June 2020
Release of SPLIT Rapid Viral RNA/DNA Extraction Kit
June 2020
Release of TraPR Small RNA Isolation Kit
February 2020
Release of RiboCop rRNA Depletion Kits for Bacteria
January 2020
Release of Lexogen 12 nt Unique Dual Index System
2019
September 2019
Upgrade RiboCop rRNA Depletion Kit V1.3 (Human/Mouse/Rat)
August 2019
Release of SPLIT RNA Extraction Kit for Blood
February 2019
Release of CORALL Total RNA-Seq Library Prep Kit
2018
December 2018
Upgrade TeloPrime Full-Length cDNA Amplification Kit V2
May 2018
Release of UMI Second Strand Synthesis Module for QuantSeq FWD (Illumina, Read 1)
Upgrade of i5 Unique Dual Indexing Add-on Kit for QuantSeq/SENSE (5001-5096)
July 2018
We are providing Services for Small RNA-Seq, QuantSeq for SLAMseq RNA, and SPLIT RNA Extraction
2017
February 2017
Release of QuantSeq 3’ mRNA-Seq Library Prep Kit (FWD) HT for Illumina
March 2017
Release of RNA-Seq service for generation of QuantSeq 3’ mRNA-Seq libraries, multiplexed sequencing, and data analysis
June 2017
Release of SIRV Set 2 (Iso Mix E0) and 3 (Iso Mix E0 / ERCC)
August 2017
Release of Small RNA-Seq Library Prep Kit
September 2017
Release of SLAMseq Metabolic RNA-Seq Kit
October 2017
Release of SLAMdunk SLAMdunk data analysis for SLAMseq integrated on the BlueBee® platform
November 2017
Data Analysis pipeline for QuantSeq 3’ Library Prep is implemented in Partek® Flow® software
December 2017
Release of new Globin Block Modules for QuantSeq Kits
2016
June 2016
CLC Plug-in “Mix-Square Transcript Quantification”
August 2016
Upgrade RiboCop rRNA Depletion Kit V1.2 (Human/Mouse/Rat)
Special User Guide for SENSE Total RNA-Seq for FFPE samples
October 2016
Integrated QuantSeq 3’mRNA-Seq Data Analysis Pipeline on the BlueBee Genomics Platform
Upgrade QuantSeq-Flex Targeted RNA-Seq Library Prep Kit V2
December 2016
Release of the i5 Dual Indexing Add-on Kit for QuantSeq/SENSE
2015
November 2015
Release of Poly(A) RNA Selection Kit
November 2015
Release of RiboCop rRNA Depletion Kit (Human/Mouse/Rat)
September 2015
Release of Spike-in RNA Variant Control Mixes (SIRVs)
July 2015
Release of QuantSeq-Flex Targeted RNA-Seq Library Prep Kit
January 2015
Release of Mix² RNA-Seq Data Analysis Software
2014
March 2014
Release of QuantSeq 3’ mRNA-Seq Library Prep Kit
The QuantSeq kit was developed in collaboration with a research institute to meet the demand for a cost-efficient RNA-Seq library preparation method for gene expression analysis by only counting the 3’ end of transcripts.
April 2014
Foundation of Lexogen, Inc. in the US
To be closer to our customers in the USA, enabling overnight delivery on most orders, a subsidiary, Lexogen, Inc., was established in New Hampshire in April 2014 as a distribution center.
June 2014
Release of SENSE Total RNA-Seq Library Prep Kit
September 2014
Release TeloPrime Full-Length cDNA Amplification Kit
October 2014
2013
February 2013
Release of SENSE mRNA-Seq Library Prep Kit
Lexogen has developed a fast, easy and fragmentation-free RNA-Seq library prep kit based on its proprietary strand-displacement stop/ligation technology, yielding libraries with an exceptional strand-specificity.
August 2013
Release of SPLIT RNA Extraction Kit
Lexogen has, since the start of the company, put a lot of effort into optimizing extraction protocols for the isolation of high quality RNA without any genomic DNA contamination. After the protocol was successfully shared with some customers, efforts were made to put all the know how into a kit.
September 2013
Innovation and employment subsidy by WAFF
The WAFF (Vienna Employment Promotion Fund) supports small and medium-sized companies in Vienna with the implementation of innovation projects and funded Lexogen for the development of the Mix2 software and the SIRVs.
2012
January 2012
1 year FFG grant and innovation voucher
2011
June 2011
Relocation to the Vienna BioCenter
Due to the rapid growth and expansion of the company, Lexogen decided to move to a new place at the Vienna BioCenter in Vienna, Austria, which is the current location of Lexogen’s headquarter, R&D unit and kit production. The company occupies about 850m2 of area on two floors; more than quadruple the space of the previous location.
October 2011
Seed-Financing by AWS
The Austria Wirtschaftsservice Gesellschaft mbH (aws) is the Austrian federal promotional bank. It assists in the foundation and development of innovative companies in the high-tech field and Lexogen acquired seed-financing by the agency.
2009 - 2010
3 years FFG grant and innovation voucher
The company received funding by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG) for the development of the SQUARE technology. The FFG is the national funding institution for applied research and development in Austria.
2007
August 2007
Foundation of Lexogen GmbH by Alexander Seitz
The company was founded in August 2007 by Dr. Alexander Seitz with the support of INiTS (Innovation into Business) incubator, having the first employee starting work in October 2007. Lexogen´s first facility was located in a campus in Southern Vienna (Liesing), Austria, where the company stayed until May 2011.
Workplace
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