Our SOMAscan™ technology (illustrated below) takes advantage of two distinctive properties of SOMAmers: Their specific protein-binding properties and their primary nucleic acid sequences. These two properties not only ensure accurate protein detection and measurement, but allow the multiplexing of literally up to more than a thousand such measurements in each of several hundred different samples in a single experiment.
We have honed our technology to ensure that we only measure proteins specific to the SOMAmers being used, giving an accurate readout of both protein identity and concentration in the original sample.
The ability to detect anywhere from a few to more than a thousand proteins in literally hundreds of different samples a day – depending on the requirements of the analysis being undertaken – provides for a quick determination of a protein biomarker “signature” indicative of the disease or biological state (e.g., drug response) being studied.