Company Announcements

Illumina partnered with Genpathway to provide whole-genome ChIP sequencing services.

Illumina named its first certified genetic analysis service provider (CSPro) in Japan, Mitsubishi Chemical Safety Institute, and its first German CSPro, LIFE & BRAIN.

Illumina named Fredrick Clerie vice president, Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs. He was previously vice president of Global Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs for the Diagnostics Division of Bayer Healthcare.

Illumina named Stephen Pentoney vice president of Array Biochemistry. He was most recently director of Technology Management for Beckman Coulter’s Molecular Diagnostics Business Center.

Gentel Biosciences exclusively licensed PriTest’s patent for arrays that use a translucent nitrocellulose surface.

Gentel Biosciences obtained an exclusive license from Agnitio Science and Technology for manufacturing nitrocellulose protein microarray slides.

SciGene appointed Alphametrix as its distributor for Germany and Austria.

Aushon BioSystems named three new distributors: BioTeltec for France, Italy and Switzerland; Molecular Diagnostics Korea for Korea; and SCRUM for Japan.

Agilent appointed IMGM Laboratories GmbH as a certified service provider in August.

SonoPlot appointed International Servo Data as the Japanese distributor of its GIX Microplotter.

The Translational Genomics Research Institute is collaborating with febit to evaluate febit’s HybSelect Technology for preselecting DNA sequences for sequencing.

PerkinElmer is collaborating with the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center on aCGH.

Product Introductions

Gentel Biosciences launched the Apix GlycoBiomarker Array Kit.

Febit released the miRBASE 11.0 biochip.

Arrayjet introduced the Ultra-Marathon Inkjet Microarrayer for processing up to 1,000 microarray glass slides.

Whatman and VigeneTech released software for Whatman’s FAST Quant protein arrays.

Agilent introduced DNA Analytics 4.0, featuring the ability to analyze more than 100 samples per experiment and to do copy number variation analysis.

PerkinElmer launched the Constitutional Chip 4.0, which has more 5,000 BAC clones, for array CGH.

Innopsys introduced the InnoScan 900 microarray scanner, which can scan at a resolution of 1 µm/pixel.

BlueGenome released the Focus haematology array 1.0 for investigating copy number in balance in 50 regions.

In September, Roche NimbleGen launched Sequence Capture Technology (see IBO 6/30/08) for use in labs.