Leiden/San Diego, January 7, 2009 – ServiceXS announced today that it has successfully completed Illumina CSPro™ certification for Infinium® Genotyping, gaining entry to an elite group of Illumina genomics service providers globally. Illumina Inc., a San Diego-based company, provides leading-edge genetic analysis tools to genomics centers worldwide.

Illumina CSPro is the collaborative service provider partnership dedicated to ensuring the delivery of the highest-quality data available for genetic analysis applications. Illumina CSPro Providers undergo a rigorous two-phase certification process that include minimum data generation, data certification and on-site audit of the facility and processes.

“The certification is a valuable confirmation of the effectiveness of our SOPs and GLP procedures: it emphasizes our policy to provide our clients with high quality data sets they can immediately work with.” said Edwin de Vries, Sales & Marketing Manager at ServiceXS. “We assist our clients in every step of their projects: design of Infinium custom iSelect® panels, performance of the experiments as well as extended data-analysis support. This certification underscores we truly are a reliable, flexible and experienced partner.”

Omead Ostadan, Illumina’s Vice President of Marketing, stated, “We are pleased to provide this Certified Service Provider Program to organizations which, in turn, provide exceptional service to their customers with the leading data quality the market has come to expect from Illumina platforms.”

The recent relocation of ServiceXS to a state-of-the-art laboratory environment, measuring 500m2, created the momentum to finalize the certification process. ServiceXS strives to complement the Infinium CSPro with certification for additional Illumina technologies.