According to the representative, all personnel from the sales, R&D, and training departments of Silicon Genetics have been switched over to Agilent. The acquisition closed on Nov. 1.
Together, Silicon Genetics, a Redwood City, Calif.-based software solutions company, and Agilent will form a life science-informatics team to create products spanning DNA, RNA, protein, and pathway applications, the companies said.
The team will sell and support products including the Rosetta Resolver and Luminator gene expression data analysis systems, the Agilent Spectrum Mill proteomics workbench, and the Agilent Synapsia informatics workbench.