New England Biolabs (NEB®) will announce the launch of the NEBNext Direct Cancer HotSpot Panel at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting, beginning April 16, 2016 in New Orleans, LA. This new research use only product incorporates a novel targeted enrichment technology for next generation sequencing that was developed in collaboration with Directed Genomics™. Combining the strengths of both PCR amplicon and hybridization-based approaches, it employs a single-tube, single-day workflow that combines enrichment with library preparation. The NEBNext Direct Cancer HotSpot Panel enriches critical regions within 50 commonly studied genes known to be associated with cancer.