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Ultima Genomics Wins Sequencing Role in Singapore Program

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Ultima Genomics announced on November 2, 2026 that its UG200 Sequencing Platform had been selected for SG-INSIGHT, a cohort under Phase III of Singapore’s National Precision Medicine (NPM) program, through a consortium led by Singapore-based clinical laboratory Lucence with QIAGEN.

Ultima described the selection as its first major win supporting a national-scale clinical whole-genome sequencing initiative.

Phase III Scope and Consortium Roles

Phase III expands Singapore’s precision-medicine effort to about 450,000 individuals, nearly one in 10 Singapore residents. It also shifts the participant base toward people receiving medical treatment and healthcare services. Unlike Phase II, which focused on healthy individuals, Phase III includes patients across a wide spectrum of health conditions from Singapore’s three public healthcare clusters: NHG Health, National University Health System and SingHealth. The phase is intended to generate evidence supporting the safe and effective rollout of genetic screening and the future integration of genomics into public healthcare.

Precision Health Research, Singapore (PRECISE), the NPM program’s central coordinating office, sets out Phase III goals that include establishing Genomic Innovation Hubs in each healthcare cluster and demonstrating large-scale whole-genome sequencing clinical utility. The clinical-utility work is to start with pharmacogenomics and expand to other use cases as evidence emerges. SOAR, or Sequence Once, Analyse Repeatedly, describes sequencing a patient’s entire genome once and analysing it as needed across the patient’s lifetime.

The Lucence-led consortium selected Ultima after an extensive evaluation. During that process, the partners addressed quality, clinical readiness, pricing and innovation using the UG200 system, Solaris 2.0 chemistry and bioinformatics analytics. Lucence will provide end-to-end clinical program management and local operational leadership, QIAGEN will support sample preparation and automation workflows, and Ultima will provide sequencing and genomic-analysis capabilities designed to enable high-quality, scalable, clinical-grade whole-genome sequencing.

UG200 Specifications and Development Timing

Ultima’s UG200 product documentation specifies annual throughput of 30,000 whole genomes at 30x coverage for the single-wafer UG200 and up to 60,000 whole genomes at the same coverage for the dual-wafer UG200 Ultra. The standard system has an in-field upgrade path to the Ultra, and the series is designed to deliver results in as little as one day from library to data.

Ultima Chief Executive Officer Gilad Almogy said: “This award is an important milestone for Ultima Genomics and demonstrates significant advancements to our platform that unlock whole genome sequencing for clinical applications at scale, at low cost, and with high-quality data.”

The selection follows the February 2026 launches of both the UG200 platform and Solaris 2.0 chemistry. Ultima has also launched paired-end sequencing and expects pangenome-aware whole-genome sequencing analysis to be available by year-end 2026.

The announcement does not disclose financial terms for the selection or the number of participants assigned specifically to SG-INSIGHT.

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