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Sugen Uses Pangea's Tools To Reduce Redundancies

Dec 03, 1999
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OAKLAND, Calif.--Sugen, a small molecule drug-discovery company wholly owned by Pharmacia and Upjohn, has licensed Pangea Systems' proprietary Clustering and Alignment Tools. Greg Plowman, Sugen's vice-president of molecular biology, said that the performance of Pangea's clustering tool on multiprocessor machines would allow Sugen to reduce the redundancies in its large sequence databases.

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