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Agilent Certifies Empire Genomics, Welgene for Microarray Service Providers Program

Dec 15, 2006
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) — Agilent Technologies said yesterday it has signed on Empire Genomics and Welgene Biotech as new members of its Certified Microarray Service Providers program.
 
The program includes training and assessments with Agilent’s 60-mer oligo microarrays, the company said. The training systems for the Agilent platforms include quality control, sample preparation, hybridization, microarray analysis, and final data analysis.  
 
Empire Genomics is a personalized medicine company based in Buffalo, NY, and Welgene Biotech is a PCR and microarray-analysis company based in Taipei City, Taiwan.
 
Agilent also said it re-certified French RNA-splicing company ExonHit.
 
 

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