Is "cheaper, better, and faster" NGS just a wish list, or an achievable reality? At ASHG 2025,  Dr. Eric Chow, Adjunct Associate Professor at UCSF and Director of the Center for Advanced Technology (CAT), shares a first-hand look into leveraging iconPCR (with AutoNorm™) to supercharge metagenomic clinical workflows. In this session, Dr. Chow unpacks how his group handles sample input variability, improving quantification and quality in library prep for those tricky, unquantifiable clinical samples.

Dr. Chow also demonstrates troubleshooting of certain pesky barcodes and how they have incorporated Watchmaker Genomics kits in their current workflows. Whether wrangling single cells, metagenomes, or just unpredictable samples, get ready for actionable tips and the science behind them.

If you’ve ever wanted to make library prep less of a hassle, shave hours off your workflow (and costs off your budget), or learn how pooling is still cool, this talk is a must.