AgriPlex Genomics and MolGen open a joint lab in Europe

AgriPlex Genomics, a leading genotyping services provider, and MolGen, a global solutions provider of innovative DNA/RNA extraction, have opened a joint lab in Europe. The new lab based in Veenendaal the Netherlands will offer faster turn-around times to their European customers. European plant and animal breeders will benefit from a combination of AgriPlex’s targeted genotyping-by-sequencing custom library preparation and analysis and MolGen’s DNA extraction and automation technologies at the new lab.

George Yang, CEO AgriPlex: ″We are committed to invest in Europe to meet the growing demands for AgriPlex products and services″.

AgriPlex Europe lab will offer genotyping service and technical support to their PlexSeq™ customized PCR amplification and library preparation customers. With the added capabilities of MolGen, both the Cleveland, OH (USA) and Veenendaal (NL) labs will be able to bring in house automated DNA extraction and additional automation, to further strengthen the AgriPlex workflow. This streamlined workflow solution will serve end-users in the agrigenomics industry, including plant and animal breeders as well as other types of high throughput genomics labs globally.

Niels Kruize, CEO MolGen: ″The joint venture will offer quicker service to existing AgriPlex customers in Europe.″