GATC Biotech To Open Laboratory In London

GATC Biotech is set to open a sequencing laboratory in London to provide scientists in UK and Ireland with single sample sequencing services. It will be situated in the London BioScience Innovation Centre (LBIC) and will start operations on January 4, 2010.

Through the GATC London Laboratory, customers are expected to benefit from a free courier delivery service of less than 24 hours. In addition, in many cities throughout the UK and Ireland GATC offers a free sample collection service in the evening with overnight shipment directly to the GATC London Laboratory.

GATC Biotech plans to install a “5-to-9” overnight sequencing service, called NightXpress, which will reduce delivery times to just 16 hours from sample collection. From Monday to Friday, DNA samples will be collected for free from 5 pm at defined GATC sample collection points and by 9 am the next morning, including Saturdays, DNA sequencing results will be ready for download.

Peter Pohl, CEO of GATC Biotech, said: “With NightXpress we offer the world’s fastest sequencing service. Being already the first company in Europe to offer commercial sequencing services, GATC Biotech once again sets new standards by delivering mass customized sequencing services with fastest delivery times and at competitive rates.”