Table 9

Selected Organizations Frequently Citing Affymetrix Patents

Citing Organization
Description of Relevant Technology
Grants

3M
Photopatterned DNA chips
N
ACLARA BIOSCIENCES
Microfluidics for preprocessing of genetic material
Y
AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES
Ink-jet manufactured DNA chips
N
BIOFORCE NANOSCIENCES
Mapping nucleotide positions and molecular interactions through atomic force microscopy
Y
BIOMICRO SYSTEMS
Microfluidic systems to enhance DNA hybridization
N
CALIPER TECHNOLOGIES
Parallel microfluidic devices for preparation of genetic material
Y
CALTECH
Protein design, genetic sequence analysis and amplification, size based polynucleotide sorting
Y
CEPHEID
Rapid genetic testing for diseases and bioterrorism
Y
CLONTECH LABORATORIES
Glass, nylon, and plastic expression profiling microarrays; disease profiling arrays
Y
EASTMAN KODAK
Reagents and imaging systems for microarrays
N
FUJI PHOTO FILM
Electrochemically assembled DNA chips, optical scanners for expression arrays
N
GENE LOGIC
Analysis of Affymetrix GeneChip data
Y
GENOSPECTRA
Chronological quantitation of genetic cellular events
N
HARVARD COLLEGE
Protein arrays
Y
HYSEQ
Protein modeling and DNA chips
Y
ILLUMINA
High density optical wells and scanning systems for nucleic acid analysis
Y
INCYTE
Microarrays for gene expression studies and drug discovery
Y
KIMBERLY-CLARK WORLDWIDE
Multipurpose optical diffraction biosensors
N
LARGE SCALE PROTEOMICS
Protein identification and characterization
N
LEXICON GENETICS
Gene knockout technology to systematically discover the physiological and behavioral functions of genes
Y
MIT
Nanoparticles to create, through deposition and pattering, microelectronic devices that incorporate biological materials. Nanocrystal tagging and tracking of DNA.
Y
MAXYGEN
Protein therapy
Y
MERGEN
DNA chip maker
N
MOTOROLA
Stamped DNA chips
N
NANOGEN
Sample preparation and testing tools
Y
NANOSPHERE
Protein/Nucleic acid detection without amplification
Y
NANOSTREAM
Microfluidic systems to enhance array throughput
N
ORCHID BIOSCIENCES
Microfluidic glass chips for identity testing
Y
PERLEGEN SCIENCES
Whole genome association studies on DNA chips to better match patient genotypes with medications
Y
ROSETTA INPHARMATICS
Ink-jet microarrays and analysis software for genetic research
N
SEQUENOME
Resequencing array for genotyping
N
SOMALOGIC
Rapid protein based diagnosis of disease
Y
STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Using cell stress response to identify drug targets, nucleic acid amplification, pin based DNA chip manufacturing
Y
SYMYX TECHNOLOGIES
High throughput chemical discovery and analysis on microarrays
Y
TELECHEM INTERNATIONAL
Noncontact microspotting devices
N
THIRD WAVE TECHNOLOGIES
Molecular diagnostics and amplification
Y
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
Flourescense tagging, expression analysis algorithms, diagnostic arrays, chemical discovery arrays
Y
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
Creating temperature gradients on DNA chips to better characterize molecular interactions
Y
VIALOGY
Data cleaning software for gene expression studies
N
ZYOMYX
Human and murine cytokine protein assays
Y

Lenoir and Giannella Journal of Biomedical Discovery and Collaboration 2006 1:11   doi:10.1186/1747-5333-1-11