Industry Biotechnology Headquarters Konstanz, Germany Type Limited company | Website www.gatc-biotech.com Founded 1990 | |
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Key people Fritz Pohl, executive chairman
Peter Pohl, CEO
Marcus Benz, COO Profiles | ||
GATC Biotech is a German company specialist in DNA and RNA sequencing for academic and industrial partners worldwide. The company offers sequencing and bioinformatics solutions from single samples up to large scale projects. 'The Genome and Diagnostic Centre' focusing on Next and Third Generation sequencing is based in the headquarters in Constance, Germany. The fully automated NGS laboratories are certified under ISO 17025. The Sanger sequencing business is located in 'The European Custom Sequencing Centre' in Cologne, Germany. The proximity to Cologne Bonn Cargo GmbH serves as the logistical hub within Europe.
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History
Founded in 1990 the company concentrated in the early days on commercialising a nonradioactive sequencing technology platform, patented by Prof. Pohl one of the founder of GATC. The direct blotting electrophoresis system, the GATC 1500 was utilised in the European Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome project. In 1996 started the transformation from an instrument manufacturer to a service provider in the field of DNA and RNA sequencing. As part of the Gene Alliance, founded in 1998, the company was involved in the large-scale genome analysis project Aspergillus Niger funded by DSM (The Netherlands) and finished in 2001. 2006 started the company to develop the next generation sequencing business division adding the Europe's first commercial PacBio RS platform in 2011.
Structure of the company
GATC Biotech is a limited company has several subsidiaries in Europe.
Products
The range of products covers the Sanger sequencing applications as well as next generation sequencing, such as de novo sequencing, human exome sequencing for clinical settings and RNA-Seq.