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ABI Stops Selling HTS Biosystems SPR Array Platform

Oct 05, 2004

NEW YORK, Oct. 5 (GenomeWeb News) - Applied Biosystems will no longer develop, service, or distribute HTS Biosystems' surface plasmon resonance array platform, HTS said today.

 

From now on, the platform, sold as the 8500 Affinity Chip Analyzer by ABI, will be marketed by HTS Biosystems as the Flexchip Kinetic Analysis System.

 

As a result of its ongoing business review, ABI decided to stop selling the instrument. "Although we have had a successful relationship with Applied Biosystems, we understand their future market emphasis, and agree that the Flexchip system's success is best served through specific market focus by HTS," said Gregory Freitag, HTS' CEO, in a company statement.

 

The two companies first agreed to bring the instrument to market  in 2002.

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