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TRUGENE HIV-1 GENOTYPING KIT AND OPENGENE DNA SEQUENCING SYSTEM IMPLEMENTED

June 9, 2009

BioCollections Worldwide, Inc. (BCW) today announced that the TRUGENE HIV-1 Genotyping Kit and OpenGene DNA Sequencing System have been implemented at the BCW Testing Laboratory. The TRUGENE system provides an integrated computational system that delivers enhanced data management, simplified system configuration and networking support as well as increased flexibility and throughput in order to generate genotype and gene sequence information. "The TRUGENE iMac OSX-based system will enable us to increase throughput and flexibility during the interrogation and monitoring of HIV-1," said Sixto Pacheco, CCRC, President and CEO at BioCollections Worldwide, Inc. (BCW) "BioCollections Worldwide, Inc. is committed to delivering best of class testing services to our customers. The implementation of this system will permit us to blast sequences against various databases in order to identify new and energing HIV subtypes."

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