Agencourt Bioscience Corporation
www.agencourt.com

A wholly owned subsidiary of Beckman Coulter, Inc., is a leading provider of genomic services and nucleic acid purification products in the life sciences market. Their products and services support the advancement of science in understanding biology, improving health and delivering safe and effective treatments for disease. Agencourt's purification products and services are based on the patented Agencourt SPRI® (Solid Phase Reversible Immobilization) technology, which has been adopted by several of the largest genome research facilities and used to sequence over one-third of the human genome. Agencourt was one of five NHGRI-funded Large-Scale Sequencing Centers whose goal was to sequence genomes of organisms of high biomedical importance. The company's state-of-the-art facilities are guided by the FDA's Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) as a contract analytical laboratory. Agencourt is located in Beverly, Massachusetts. For more information go to Agencourt Bioscience.

GATC Biotech
www.gatc-biotech.com

A leading European one-stop-shop service provider of molecular biological services and innovative bioinformatics solutions for industry and academia worldwide. GATC helps its customers to complete their research projects quickly, efficiently and economically. GATC's portfolio contains services in the areas of:

• genome sequencing
• 96 well / 384 well sequencing (high throughput)
• single sample sequencing
• transcriptomics
• functional analysis

These services complemented by a wide range of bioinformatic software, e.g. for DNA sequence analysis, genome analysis, DNA variant analysis software, AFLP and genotyping. The extensive portfolio makes it the leading service provider in Europe.

The employees are mostly scientists with long-term experience in biotechnology and molecular biology. Since 1997 the company is ISO-certificated (ISO 9001:2000).