PLEASANTON, Calif. ––10x Genomics, Inc., a company focused on expanding genomics applications by providing researchers with access to critical long-range genomic information and gene expression at single cell-resolution, today announced that it has entered into distribution agreement with SCRUM Inc. to bring the Chromium™ System and associated products to the rapidly expanding Japanese market.

“With the addition of our new Japanese partner, 10x has successfully inked distribution arrangements throughout the Asia Pacific region, a growing market that is hungry for new and more powerful sequencing solutions,” said Serge Saxonov, Ph.D., co-founder and chief executive officer of 10x Genomics. “Having analyzed a number of exceptional partnering opportunities in the region, we are pleased to be working with SCRUM Inc. to deliver these new capabilities to our current and future customers in Japan.”

The company’s recently launched Chromium System is a microfluidics-based molecular barcoding system, bu