CombiMatrix and Strand Genomics Enter into Co-Marketing Agreement

12-Jul-2004

Strand Genomics, a Bangalore-based Life Sciences informatics company announced that it has entered into a co-marketing agreement with CombiMatrix. Under this arrangement CombiMatrix will market avadis, Strand's flagship software for microarray data analysis as a preferred solution for the CombiMatrix system. Strand and CombiMatrix will develop an interface to facilitate ordering of CombiMatrix's CustomArrayTM products through avadis.

Avadis combines scalable analytical algorithms with powerful and interactive visualization to derive valuable insights from the data. The uniqueness of avadis stems from the depth and versatility of its capabilities in accessing, visualizing and analyzing gene expression data. avadis has the ability to seamlessly access and import data from various sources. It also provides a wide range of clustering techniques and statistical tests that make up the complete analysis toolset. avadis is a comprehensive solution that meets all the needs of gene expression researchers with a superior performance-to-price feature. avadis is available in three editions - explorer, prophetic and pride.

CombiMatrix synthesizes oligonucleotides in situ to build high performance custom and content microarrays. The researcher can choose the sequences of interest from any genome, any gene or any species. CombiMatrix's revolutionary technology allows for complete customization, flexibility and arrays are delivered to the customer in days, not months.

"We are pleased to be able to offer our customers a high quality data analysis application along with our CustomArray products", stated Dr. Amit Kumar, President and CEO of CombiMatrix. "This relationship enables us to leverage our growing sales infrastructure."

"We are very pleased to work with CombiMatrix which has cutting-edge expertise in microarray technologies," said Vijay Chandru, Ph.D., CEO of Strand Genomics. "We strongly believe that this will be a very successful partnership and will help both CombiMatrix and Strand deliver value added products to our customers"

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