QIAGEN builds on AMR work with Ares Genetics deal

19 February 2019

Netherlands-based QIAGEN (NYSE: QGEN) has acquired an exclusive license to leverage Ares Genetics’ proprietary antimicrobial resistance (AMR) database to develop innovative bioinformatics and assay solutions in the field.

QIAGEN also gains rights to use bioinformatics tools and workflows from the ARES Technology Platform in its bioinformatics products and services for researchers and a non-exclusive license to develop and commercialize molecular research assays using the research platform’s content with its own develop and commercialize molecular research assays using.

The platform, known as ARESdb, is powered by artificial intelligence and is claimed to be the most comprehensive, global and continuously updated proprietary knowledge base on genetic AMR markers and their diagnostic relevance.

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