Additional Relevant Details Volpi group is collaborating with QIAGEN Instruments AG on the manufacture of the automated fluorescence imaging module used in QIAGEN’s GeneReaderTM next-generation sequencing (NGS) instrument. The benchtop GeneReader combines with other QIAGEN NGS products to provide the first seamless, fully automated Sample to Insight workflow.Volpi optimized the GeneReader’s automated imaging module at its precision engineering site in Zurich, Switzerland. The module for the QIAGEN instrument is manufactured at Volpi’s production facility in Auburn, N.Y., U.S.A. Volpi specializes in the engineering and manufacture of optoelectronic modules for diagnostic, life science and other applications. These modules combine electronics with the detection and measurement of light, like the fluorescent light emitted by the GeneReader system when a biological marker is present in a patient sample.