Beckman Coulter (Fullerton, CA) recently announced that it has combined Agencourt Biosciences and Cogenics to form Beckman Coulter Genomics—a business to conduct sequencing, genotyping, and gene expression studies.

Among the platforms BCG will use are Roche’s 454 Genome Sequencer FLX, Applied Biosciences’ SOLID, and Illumina’s Genome Analyzer.  MORE