Roche and PerkinElmer Enter into New Agreement for Distribution of NimbleGen CGX Cytogenetics

Roche and PerkinElmer PKI today announced a new supply agreement for distribution of the NimbleGen CGX microarray workflow, for use in constitutional disease research. Under this agreement, effective January 2012, PerkinElmer will assume responsibility from Roche for sales, service, and support of the CGX array workflow for most countries outside of the U.S. Roche will continue to sell this innovative workflow in the U.S. and other select markets. This is a further evolution of the relationship between the two companies which started in 2009 with the development of a comprehensive cytogenetics array workflow. The combined solution, the NimbleGen CGX array workflow, uses advanced microarray technologies from Roche with the cytogenetic-focused array design and analysis software developed from Signature Genomics (acquired by PerkinElmer in May 2010), which was the first laboratory to provide microarray-based cytogenetic testing in the U.S.