Company Announcements

In February, Roche NimbleGen named CapitalBio a Certified Service Provider (CSP) for gene expression, Comparative Genomic Hybridization (CGH)/copy number variation and DNA methylation.

Roche NimbleGen named imaGenes GmbH a CSP for DNA methylation analysis.

Oxford Gene Technology was named Agilent’s first High-Throughput CSP for Agilent microarrays.

Kreatech Diagnostics will exclusively distribute Oxford Gene Technology’s CytoSure products in France.

In March, Affymetrix appointed Jami Dover Nachtsheim, who held various positions at Intel, and Nelson C. Chan, former CEO of Magellan Navigation, to its Board. John A. Young will retire from the Board in May.

Affymetrix named Timothy Barabe senior vice president and CFO. He was previously senior vice president and CFO at Human Genome Sciences.

Product Introductions

CombiMatrix launched the next-generation, palm-size ElectraSense microarray reader for measuring up to 12,000 probes on an array in less than 25 seconds.

Illumina released the next-generation High-Density Bovine BeadChip array product using its Infinium HD assay. It can interrogate more than 500,000 loci.

Illumina introduced the 12-sample HumanOmni Express BeadChip for genome-wide association studies. It allows interrogation of over 70,000 variants per sample.

Illumina released the new HumanOmniExpress+ Custom BeadChip for genotyping customization for genome-wide association studies. It allows for the addition of up to 200,000 custom variants for a total of >900 k variants per sample.

Ambry Genetix launched the 44 k StemArray product and services for higher-resolution karyotyping of stem cells.

NanoInk released the Human Inflammation Cytokine Assay protein array kit, featuring 1 x 3 in. glass slides, each composed of 18 sub-arrays with 48 features per sub-array.

Oxford Gene Technology introduced the 98 x 60 k, 4 x 180 k and 4 x 44 k CytoSure ISCA aCGH arrays.

Millipore released the Magna ChIP2 Chromatin Immunoprecipitation (ChiP) DNA microarray kits, which contain reagents, Agilent promoter microarrays and validated protocols for the entire ChiP-chip workflow.

Affymetrix launched the GeneAtlas Personal Microarray System for whole genome gene expression. It is designed as an affordable solution for researchers with no microarray experience, low- to medium-throughput service labs, educational labs and emerging markets. It features a new array strip format for interrogating four distinct samples simultaneously.