AATI Rides the Next-Gen Sequencing Wave

Firm Is Positioned to Meet Rising Demand for Automated Nucleic Acid Analysis Advanced Analytical Technologies, Inc. (AATI) is using the boom in next-generation sequencing and interest from emerging markets to help drive its capillary electrophoresis instrumentation business. “Next-gen sequencing for DNA is growing by leaps and bounds in the United States and European Union, with strong growth in Asia,” notes Steve Siembieda, AATI’s COO. Siembieda is seeing an uptick in South America, too, as well as increasing interest in RNA sequencing: “Next-gen sequencing for RNA analysis is exploding.” Source: GEN Feb 1, 2014 (Vol. 34, No. 3)