BioTrove, Inc. today announced the opening of a new Bay Area location to expand customer and technical support to the west coast region. Located in San Carlos, California, the new BioTrove corporate offices and laboratory will facilitate research collaborations with clients based nearby, as well as technology demonstrations of the company’s OpenArray(TM) genomic analysis system and RapidFire(TM) high-throughput mass spectrometry (HTMS) system.

“Client service and long-term support are the cornerstones of our business – life science research technologies can enable breakthrough discoveries, and it’s our job to ensure research teams have access to, and understanding of, the platforms to help them achieve their goals,” said Al Luderer, Ph.D., President, CEO and Director, BioTrove. “Expanding our offices to California brings us closer to both genomic research and drug discovery clients in the West, providing convenient, readily accessible regional support for these important projects.”

BioTrove’s new facility is situated in close proximity to strategic partnership headquarters, as well as clients in a range of life sciences and drug discovery fields. BioTrove’s two innovative technology platforms, OpenArray and RapidFire, will both be available for in-office customer demonstrations and client technical support. Sales forces dedicated to these markets will also hold offices in the facility.

“We already have marketing collaborations underway with Applied BioSystems and Agilent, so being close to our partners’ facilities in the Bay Area enables further support and development of these important relationships – and the solutions we offer clients together,” said Bob Ellis, Executive Chairman, President of International Sales and Director, BioTrove. “Creating an official home base in the West allows us to better serve clientele far away from our headquarters outside Boston, helping us to meet the needs of clients in the Western region and the budding Asian/Pacific Rim marketplace.”

BioTrove continues to house its corporate headquarters in Woburn, Massachusetts.

About BioTrove, Inc.

BioTrove, Inc. offers two innovative technology platforms: OpenArray(TM), which advances genomic research in a wide range of life science fields, including agriculture, disease research, and public health, and RapidFire(TM), which enables the acceleration of drug discovery and pipeline decisions. With 11 of the 15 largest biopharmaceutical companies based on global sales as clients, and partnerships with prestigious research and public health centers around the world, BioTrove’s products and services ensure that an industry committed to accuracy and speed can meet business goals.

The OpenArray(TM) Platform enables genomics researchers to generate SNP and real time qPCR data in the hundreds of thousands of data points per day, significantly increasing the number of samples analyzed while significantly decreasing the time and cost required. The flexible format and nanoliter scale of the OpenArray(TM) system allows for easy adjustment of sample and assay numbers, achieving economical, high-throughput genomics.

RapidFire(TM) Mass Spectrometry (RFMS) feeds samples directly to the mass spectrometer at six to eight seconds per sample, eliminating the bottleneck created by traditional mass spectrometry throughput. RFMS is routinely used in many applications including the high-throughput screening of previously intractable drug targets, ADME assays and directed evolution studies.