NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) — Fluidigm and BIOKE, distributor of Fluidigm systems in the Benelux region, have announced that Leiden University Medical Center has purchased the company’s BioMark real-time PCR system.
The system was installed in the laboratory of Gert-Jan Van Ommen, head of the Department of Human Genetics and founder of the Leiden Genome Technology Center, a “principal genomics facility in the Netherlands.
Fluidigm and BIOKE added that Van Ommen’s lab also plans to use BioMark digital arrays, which are crafted to partition a single sample/reagent mixture into 765 assays.
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.