Madison, Wisconsin, USA
November 23, 2009

DNASTAR, a leading bioinformatics software company, and Wageningen University and Research centre in Wageningen, the Netherlands announced today the signing of a broad site license agreement for the use of Lasergene® sequence analysis software developed by DNASTAR.

Under the terms of the site license, all researchers in the Department of Agrotechnology and Food Sciences will have unlimited use of the software for their sequence analysis projects. The site license will include the latest version of Lasergene, v8.1, which provides users with automated virtual MultiSite Gateway cloning capabilities, along with numerous other new features. Lasergene, a comprehensive sequence analysis software program sold in more than 65 countries worldwide, provides users with tools to perform a wide range of DNA assembly, visualization and analysis operations on data generated by the conventional Sanger sequencing method as well as Next Generation platforms available from Roche 454, Illumina, ABI SOLiD and Helicos. It can also be used in a wide range of protein analysis applications. Additional Lasergene information and Free Trial versions of the software are available.

Bob Steinhauser, DNASTAR’s Director of Marketing stated, “Wageningen UR and DNASTAR have been working together for many years. This is the second department-wide site license for the use of our software at the University. We are extremely pleased that as the activities at the University have grown, DNASTAR has been able to grow with them. Lasergene’s novel features, broad applications base and constant updating with new Features, makes it an excellent sequence analysis platform choice to address present and future genomic research needs.”

About Wageningen University and Research centre
Within Wageningen UR, nine specialised and applied research institutes, Wageningen University and the University of Applied Sciences Van Hall Larenstein combine their efforts to contribute to solutions for important issues in the domain of healthy food and living environment. With its roughly 40 branches in the Netherlands, Brazil and China, 6,500 employees and 10,000 students, Wageningen UR is one of the leading academic knowledge institutes in its field worldwide. An integrated approach to the issues and the cooperation between the natural, applied and social sciences form the heart of the Wageningen Approach.

About DNASTAR
DNASTAR, Madison, Wisconsin, (www.DNASTAR.com) has been a pioneer in the development and sales of bioinformatics software used to increase researcher’s productivity for more than 25 years. Currently, DNASTAR produces Lasergene, a sequence analysis software suite; SeqMan NGen, an assembly tool specifically designed for use with Next Generation sequencing platforms; GenVision, a data visualization software application; and ArrayStar, a microarray gene expression visualization and analysis tool.

Website: http://www.wur.nl

Published: November 23, 2009