Amersham Biosciences Ranked Top Supplier in Proteomics Market
07-Jan-2002
ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 4 - Amersham Biosciences is the company that scientists most closely associate with products and services for protein science and proteomics research. Bio-Rad Laboratories ranked a close second in general awareness and was considered a leader in several categories of products used by protein researchers.
This finding is just one of the many insights derived from a multi-part survey of more than 1,000 scientists actively engaged in protein research. bioinformatics LLC, a leading provider of market research to the biotechnology industry, today announced the publication of ``The Tools & Techniques of Protein Science: Catalyzing the Future of Proteomics.'' This series is based on eight separate surveys investigating every facet of the protein research market.
In addition to market leaders Amersham Biosciences and Bio-Rad, other suppliers also fared well in specific product categories associated with proteomics: Invitrogen (protein expression and purification), Ciphergen and Packard Bioscience (protein microarrays), Agilent (microfluidics), Pierce Chemical (protein visualization), Applied Biosystems and MicroMass (mass spectrometry), and Clontech (in vivo biomolecular interactions).
BioInformatics LLC first created a map of the market based on the specific techniques used in each phase of protein research. The next step was to develop detailed questionnaires addressing the techniques, applications, products and suppliers associated with protein expression, purification, separation, visualization, identification and characterization. In addition, questionnaires were created to examine scientists' use of protein databases and software as well as methods for studying biomolecular interactions.
The eight questionnaires were fielded to qualified members of The Science Advisory Board (http://www.scienceboard.net ) -- the world's largest online panel of scientific customers. ``All participants in this study were first required to participate in an initial 29-question survey designed to characterize their experience with a variety of tools and techniques associated with protein science,'' according to Tamara Zemlo, PhD who oversees the activities of The Science Advisory Board. ``Based on their responses to this initial survey, we then invited qualified respondents to participate in subsequent surveys relating to the specific applications and techniques where they had experience,'' says Zemlo. Zemlo explains that it was important to conduct the study using multiple questionnaires because ``it's increasingly evident that a combination of technologies is required to fully characterize a proteome.''
The reports, which can be purchased separately or as a set, have yielded an enormous amount of data with important implications for the market's suppliers. For example, the top two cutting-edge proteomics technologies that scientists are considering using are protein chips and liquid-phase separation techniques. Additionally, academic researchers would like suppliers to focus on improving current separation and detection methods that would enable them to analyze closer to 100% of the proteome. In contrast, scientists working at pharmaceutical companies want suppliers to focus on automating all procedures in order to improve reproducibility and achieve higher throughput.
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