Arrayjet and BioMicro Systems partner in the USA

Exclusive distribution agreement signed between Arrayjet and BioMicro Systems

May 15th 2007 Edinburgh UK: Arrayjet today announced that they have appointed BioMicro Systems of Salt Lake City, Utah as their exclusive distribution partner in the United States. Arrayjet’s Chief Executive, Graham Miller said, “It makes very good sense for our two companies to work together as we address the same application areas with highly complementary technologies. On top of that we share the common goals of the highest standards of customer support and in providing increasingly comprehensive packages which meet the demands of both research and, potentially, clinical applications of microarrays”.

BioMicro Systems have been very successful with their MAUI hybridisation system. Michael Feldman PhD, CEO of the company believes that the combination of their MAUI System with the new small arrayer from Arrayjet will form a very attractive package for potential users. “BioMicro Systems endeavors to be an innovative company offering integrated solutions to meet customer needs. The Arrayjet inkjet microarray spotters offer customers in the US the latest technology that affords the most flexibility in printing arrays, providing excellent performance, throughput and value. This combination of technologies gives researchers the tools to customise and optimise array design, hybridisation performance, and data quality.”

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About Arrayjet
Arrayjet® Ltd was founded in August 2000 by physicist Dr. Howard Manning (University of Cambridge), and molecular biologists Prof. Peter Ghazal and Dr. Douglas Roy (University of Edinburgh), to develop biological microarrays robotics using inkjet print-heads. In February 2001 Arrayjet secured two-stage funding from the Scotland based investor group Archangels and won a Scottish Enterprise SMART award. Dr. Manning is Arrayjet's Technical Director and Keith Howell, an Edinburgh based director and consultant, is Chairman. Professor Ghazal is chief scientific advisor and Dr Roy is lead advisor on microarrays. Duncan Hall, previously with Agilent Technologies, joined in early 2005 as Sales and Marketing Director. Graham Miller, formerly of PerkinElmer, is the CEO.

Arrayjet Microarray spotters have over 100 nozzles and produce microarrays of very high quality, with excellent morphology, uniformity, consistency and robustness. The extra nozzles also give an additional advantage in that there is redundancy in the print-head – it carries spare capacity on every print run. Academic and commercial researchers will benefit equally from the careful design and ingenuity of the instruments, since standard pin-based microarray spotters often produce differentiation in print quality; those producing their own arrays will no longer have quadrants of the chip that have higher densities of macromolecules than others. www.arrayjet.co.uk .

About BioMicro Systems, Inc.
BioMicro Systems is a private company that serves the life sciences community by developing and marketing biological research products based on its proprietary microfluidic and microarray technologies. In 2003 BioMicro Systems launched the MAUI Hybridization System, a cutting-edge microarray hybridisation instrument, designed to alleviate the processing bottleneck encountered during the microarray hybridisation process and to help researchers achieve greater sensitivity and more consistent/reproducible results. BioMicro Systems strives to become the company to provide the standard for achieving superb microarray hybridisation results. More company information can be found at www.biomicro.com .