NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) - Oxford Gene Technology said today that it has inked a collaborative agreement with Agilent Technologies that gives it access to Agilent’s microarray platform and makes Agilent an OEM supplier of OGT-designed microarrays.
Under the deal, OGT becomes an Agilent certified service provider and the companies plan to create a “Center of Microarray Excellence” that will focus on emerging microarray applications, such as array-CGH, ChIP-onchip, methylation, and microRNA analysis.
OGT said it will use Agilent’s 2100 Bioanalyzer platform and GeneSpring microarray analysis software in the center.
The agreement follows a number of licensing agreements that OGT has recently signed with MassTag Technologies, NimbleGen, and Illumina.