Dick Farrahar

Applera Corp. manufactures medical instruments

Part of Applied Biosystems, Inc., Tropix, Inc. is a company that manufactures DNA tracing and biological products. The company is based in Bedford, MA. Tropix was acquired by Applera Corp. on April 19, 1996.

Part of Applied Biosystems, Inc., Molecular Informatics, Inc. develops bioinformatics software. The company is based in Santa Fe, NM. Molecular Informatics was acquired by Applera Corp. on November 24, 1997.

Applied Biosystems, Inc. is a company that provides integrated systems for sequencing, flow cytometry, and various types of PCR. The company is based in Foster City, CA. The company's products cover the entire process from sample preparation to data analysis. The company was founded by Chris Yoo, Marvin H. Caruthers, Michael W. Hunkapiller, and Leroy E. Hood. Applied Biosystems was acquired by Invitrogen Corp. from Applera Corp. on November 21, 2008 for $6,417.85 million.

PerSeptive Biosystems developed and manufactured an integrated system for the purification, analysis, and synthesis of bio-molecules, reducing the time and cost of drug discoveries. BVP’s Chris Gabrieli invested in the company’s second round in December 1989. PerSeptive was purchased by Perkin Elmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI) in 1998, it is a part of Applied Biosystems (NYSE: ABI), a subsidiary of Applera, Perkin Elmer’s former biotechnology division

Flagship Pioneering (Flagship Pioneering) is a venture capital firm founded in 1982 by Ed M Kania and Noubar B Afeyan. The firm is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.