NimbleGen Microarrays Used as Primary Platform for ChIP-chip Discovery in ENCODE Project

MADISON, Wis., June 13, 2007 – The Encyclopedia of DNA Elements (ENCODE) consortium today published a set of papers in Nature and Genome Research that sum the work of more than four years of effort dedicated to understanding the functional elements of the human genome—a step toward the goal of using such information to diagnose, treat and prevent disease. NimbleGen Systems, Inc. played a primary role in this international discovery effort, both as the chosen chromatin immunoprecipitation microarray (ChIP-chip) platform for a majority of investigators who participated in this study and as the recipient of $2.5 million in ENCODE research grants. At least 15 papers have been published to date by ENCODE participants using the NimbleGen platform.

Source: NimbleGen Systems, Inc.