Single cell genomics

made simple

Free your discoveries

See our short video explainer (right) or read our SimpleCell™ Technology Overview for an in depth review of how our technology works.

Single cell genomics

made simple

Free your discoveries

See our short video explainer (right) or read our SimpleCell™ Technology Overview for an in depth review of how our technology works.

SimpleCell Technology: Here’s how it works.

Our technology

Single cell today: powerful technology, constrained by complexity

Current tools for single cell involve complex laboratory frameworks, such as proprietary instruments, microfluidic or manual emulsions, and combinatorial indexing.

The complexity and cost of these methods significantly constrains the use of single cell for important applications across basic and translational research.

Single cell tomorrow: simple, scalable, solution-phase

CS Genetics has developed a radically new approach to single cell, based on a physical phenomenon called ‘Kinetic Confinement’.  Our new platform uses novel molecular indexing reagents to deliver index sequences directly to single cells and Kinetic Confinement to perform high-fidelity indexing of molecules across thousands of cells simultaneously in single-tube, solution-phase reactions.

The key procedural steps of single cell indexing by Kinetic Confinement, including pairing of single cells with single indexing reagents, cell lysis and release of indexing oligonucleotides, and kinetically-confined single cell indexing in solution.

High-throughput single cell with Kinetic Confinement: the SimpleCell™ platform

Kinetic Confinement is a new mode thermodynamic control of molecular diffusion, to drive high-fidelity single cell indexing in normal laboratory plasticware (such as PCR tubes and plates).

The SimpleCell™ platform from CS Genetics leverages two core innovations that make Kinetic Confinement work:

CPair

Cell pairing and indexing reagent - novel, bifunctional indexing reagents that deliver index sequences directly to single cells, and

KCB

Kinetic Confinement Buffer - a novel, bifunctional buffer for heat-activated cell lysis and kinetically-confined single cell indexing.

Kinetic Confinement

High-fidelity and high-sensitivity single cell indexing in solution phase with increasing intensity of Kinetic Confinement

Practical features of Kinetic Confinement

The versatility of Kinetic Confinement enable simple, fast, and flexible single cell experiments, and allows straightforward scaling of experimental designs across multiple orders of magnitude.

For additional information about Kinetic Confinement and the SimpleCell™ platform, please see our bioRxiv pre-print.