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Affymetrix Licenses Biotique s BLIS Data Integration System

Nov 11, 2003

NEW YORK, Nov. 11 (GenomeWeb News) - Biotique Systems today announced that Affymetrix has licensed the Biotique Local Integration System (BLIS) for use in its internal research activities.

The deal builds upon a collaboration the companies began last September to build a freely available viewer for transcriptome data (available here).

Financial terms of the BLIS licensing agreement were not disclosed.

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