The assays quantitatively measure the activity of galactose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase and biotinidase enzymes from newborn dried blood spot specimens.
Public Health England will use the company's Victor EnLite instrument and EnLite Neonatal TREC kit at three of six sites to evaluate screening newborns for "Bubble Boy" disease.
Clinical genomics is just one business area for PHIX, which also intends to sell genomic tools and introduce a variety of agriculture and lifestyle-focused tests.
The platform, which Waters introduced last month, uses flow-injection tandem mass spectrometry to enable high-throughput analysis of dried blood spots.
