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Partek Enters Software Selling Pact with Life Tech

By a GenomeWeb staff reporter

NEW YORK (GenomeWeb News) – Following on yesterday's announcement of an agreement with Ion Torrent, today Partek said that it has inked a similar agreement with Ion Torrent's parent company Life Technologies.

Life Tech will make Partek's Genomics Suite available through its sales channel as a featured solution for analyzing data generated by Life Tech's next-generation sequencing devices, said St. Louis-based Partek.

"Partek has worked closely with us to ensure seamless data integration and rapid analysis, enabling our customers to interpret and present their findings with unprecedented speed and ease," Claude Benchimol, SVP of biological information systems at Life Technologies, said in a statement.

Terms of the agreement were not announced.

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