On Dec. 8, 2021, PerkinElmer announced the research use only launch of the NEXTFLEXﾮ Variant-Seqﾙ SARS-CoV-2 Kit v2 to accelerate the detection of SARS-CoV-2 variants.

This complete next generation sequencing (NGS) solution allowed laboratories to increase sequencing throughput and make reliable variant identifications.