Affymetrix Completes Acquisition of Panomics Monday December 8, 8:00 am ET
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Affymetrix, Inc. (Nasdaq:AFFX - News) today announced the completion of its acquisition of Panomics, Inc., a privately held, Fremont, Calif.-based company which offers a powerful suite of assay products for a wide variety of low- to mid-plex genetic, protein, and cellular analysis applications.
“The acquisition of Panomics will strengthen our position in the high-growth market segments of validation and routine testing and create further operating leverage,” said Kevin King, president of Affymetrix. “Customers will benefit from a more complete workflow, beginning with whole-genome Affymetrix microarray studies and then using Panomics products to focus on genes and proteins of interest.”
Panomics has grown rapidly with a number of easy-to-use, low- to mid-plex products and sells into an installed base of more than 5,600 instruments worldwide. These products cover a broad range of sample types and offer a direct assay approach with high sensitivity and specificity.
The assays do not require nucleic acid extraction or amplification, which streamlines workflows for applications such as gene expression, copy number, and cytogenetics. Panomics products complement Affymetrix’ recently acquired liquid array technology and will enable the company to address low- to mid-plex genetic analysis requirements more effectively.
In connection with the completion of the acquisition, Affymetrix is paying approximately $73 million in cash to acquire Panomics.
Affymetrix will host a conference call on January 29, 2009 at 2 p.m. PT to review its operating results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year 2008. The company will also discuss the impact of the acquisition on this call. A live webcast can be accessed by visiting the Investor Relation section of the Company’s website at www.affymetrix.com. In addition, investors and other interested parties can listen by dialing domestic: (866) 500-AFFX, international: (706) 643-2771.
About Panomics
Panomics is a privately held life science company which offers a platform of reagents and products that enable the multiplex measurement of molecular events, such as intracellular pathway analysis, cell signaling, and gene expression profiling, in a quantitative and scalable manner. Panomics has grown rapidly on the value of its proprietary branched DNA technology for gene expression analysis in cell-based assays, as well as its signal transduction and transcription factor assays. Formerly named Genospectra, Panomics was founded in 2000 and is based in Fremont, Calif. For more information, please visit www.panomics.com.
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