Protogene Laboratories of Menlo Park, Calif., announced plans to market, manufacture, and provide custom oligonucleotide DNA microarrays for academic and commercial genomics research scientists. Researchers will be able to specify what they want on a chip and the company will supply them with the finished product within days, said Christopher Wolf, president and CEO of Protogene.
Rosetta Inpharmatics has released version 1.6 of its Rosetta Resolver Expression Data Analysis System. This is the latest release of Rosetta Inpharmatics’ enterprise-wide bioinformatics solution for large-scale gene expression analysis. Enhancements to the system include the addition of several new clustering algorithms and the disclosure of elements of the system’s Application Program Interface. All Rosetta Resolver system customers with an existing support contract will be upgraded to the new version of the product at no additional cost.