Company Announcements

Roche NimbleGen named the University of Iowa’s Roy J. Carver Center for Genomics as a Certified Service Provider for comparative genomic hybridization (CGH) and gene expression.

NanoInk named four new exclusive distributors: SciTech for Australia and New Zealand; Gaia Science for Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines and Vietnam; NanoGulf for the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia; and BNM Fabrika for Turkey.

In October, NanoInk initiated a process to evaluate its strategic alternatives with the assistance of Lazard.

SCHOTT Technical Glass Solutions renewed its license to Accelr8 Technology’s Nexterion microarraying slides. Accelr8 also granted SCHOTT the right to sell Opti-Chem coated products for applications in medical diagnostics.

SQI Diagnostics announced in October that due to the withdrawal of its US IPO registration and the termination of financing, the closing conditions for its acquisition of Scienion (see IBO 9/15/11) could not be met.

Product Introductions

BioDiscovery released Nexus Copy Number 6.0 in August, which integrates algorithms for identifying significant regions of common genomic aberrations and for addressing sample aneuploidy and mosaicism.

HTG Molecular Diagnostics launched in August the qDiscovery miRNA Whole Transcriptome Array Version 16 for miRNA analysis of any sample type or size.

Ambry Genetics introduced the CancerArray, a 180K CGH array offering genome-wide probe coverage with higher probe density coverage for over 400 known cancer-associated genes.

In September, Illumina launched the Infinium BovineLD (low density) BeadChip for the cost-effective genotyping of dairy cattle. It features 7,000 SNPs and a 24-sample format.

In October, Illumina made available novel human exome content with over 250,000 functional variants for three new microarrays: the Infinium HumanExome, OmniExpressExome and HumanOmni5Exome BeadChips.

In October, Affymetrix introduced the Gene 1.1 ST Array Strips for the GeneAtlas System, which consist of 18 new array designs for whole-transcriptome analysis of model and applied research organisms.

Affymetrix launched the Axiom Genome-Wide Pan-African Array for genomic coverage of both common and rare alleles in populations of African ancestry.

Agilent introduced in October the SurePrint G3 CGH+SNP cancer catalog microarrays for detecting copy number and copy-neutral aberrations in cancer tissue samples in the same experiment. Also released was the Agilent CytoGenomics 2.0 software, which now allows for the analysis of samples with genomic complexity.