BioDiscovery, Inc. Announces OEM Supply Agreement with Bio-Rad Laboratories for Worldwide Distribution of Microarray Analysis So
June 29, 2004
BioDiscovery of El Segundo, California, is a leading provider of software products for bioanalysis and in particular of products for quantification and statistical evaluation of gene expression results. Its software systems ImaGene® and GeneSight® are used in hundreds of premier laboratories worldwide.As a result of this agreement, BioDiscovery will customize its popular ImaGene software for image analysis of microarrays, and its data analysis package GeneSight to Bio-Rad specifications into new software packages for Bio-Rad microarray products. These products will be sold and distributed by Bio-Rad in conjunction with their microarray scanner and arrayer equipment worldwide.
DNA microarrays or biochips are slides onto which a large number of different DNA probes have been attached and fixed in a regular pattern. These arrays permit parallel detection of defined target sequences of DNA. The results are imaged and analyzed using special scanners. Target groups are customers in academic research as well as research facilities in biotechnology, the pharmaceutical industry and clinical diagnostics.
Soheil Shams, Ph.D., President of BioDiscovery said, "Bio-Rad and BioDiscovery both have a common goal of creating solutions which effectively harness the power of microarray technology".
BioDiscovery was founded in 1997 in Los Angeles, California, and is a leader in the development of microarray bioinformatics software and services. BioDiscovery provides a full line of modular software employing unique patented methods. BioDiscovery software offerings span the entire microarray process, including, image processing, data mining, statistical analysis, and data management.
For more information contact:
BioDiscovery, Inc.
Greg Moore
Vice-President Business Development and Marketing
Phone: (310) 414-8100 ext. 507
Fax: (310) 414-8111
E-mail: gmoore@biodiscovery.com