Applied Biosystems Japan Ltd., a division of the Applied Biosystems Group of Applera Corp., announced the establishment of Science Center Japan to develop and promote scientific collaborations between Japanese researchers and business partners in life science research. ABJ intends to strengthen its support of the local research and development community through the creation of this new entity. The announcement was made yesterday at a press conference in Tokyo, Japan. Read the press release.
Acacia Research Corp. announced that its CombiMatrix group has expanded its product line to include the CustomArray 4X2K. This product contains four independent 2000-feature microarrays on a single CustomArray. As with all CustomArray products, the 4X2K offers array customization, user control of probe design, and the ability to modify microarray design at any time. According to the company, it delivers high sensitivity, throughput, and ease of use for gene discovery, pathway research, and molecular characterization of disease. Read the press release.
ExonHit Therapeutics and Agilent Technologies Inc. have announced that SpliceArrays, a new generation of microarrays to detect alternative splicing, can now be purchased directly from Agilent. SpliceArrays previously had been available only through ExonHit’s SpliceArray Service, which was announced in February. The SpliceArrays’ patented probe design allows the detection of both the reference and alternatively spliced forms of targeted genes on Agilent’s microarray platform. Read the press release.
VizX Labs announced that the Oregon Cancer Institute purchased a license for VizX Labs' GeneSifter microarray data analysis system, capping a successful summer for the bioinformatics company. Recent months also saw sales of GeneSifter licenses across the nation and world, plus a Best Practices award and a growing GeneSifter Data Center repository and training resource. Read the press release.
Molecular Connections announced the licensing of NetPro, the hand-curated database of protein interactions, to GlaxoSmithKline. The current version of NetPro, Molecular Connections’ protein interaction database, covers more than 100,000+ manually curated and annotated protein-protein interactions from published biomedical literature. This new version of Netpro has more components of data in granular format for easy analysis in a high throughput manner. Website: www.molecularconnections.com.