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GSA Buys DNAStar's Sequence Analysis Software

Sep 18, 2008
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Bioinformatics company DNAStar will supply the US General Services Administration with its sequence analysis software under a new five-year agreement, the company said on Wednesday. GSA provides products to a number of government agencies.
 
The Madison, Wis.-based company said GSA will purchase its Lasergene software, which is used in DNA and protein sequence assembly and analysis, at uniform and “favorable terms.”
 
Financial terms of the agreement were not released.

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