Wageningen University and DNASTAR
sign Lasergene® Site License Agreement

MADISON, Wisconsin – September 9, 2008– DNASTAR, a leading bioinformatics software company, and Wageningen University and Research Centre (Wageningen UR), the Netherlands announced today the signing of a broad license agreement for the use of Lasergene sequence analysis software developed by DNASTAR. 

Under the terms of the site license, researchers in the Department of Plant Science of the university and Plant Research International, both parts of Wageningen UR will have unlimited use of the software for their sequence analysis projects.  Lasergene is a comprehensive sequence analysis software program providing users with tools for performing a wide range of assembly, visualization and analysis operations on data generated by conventional Sanger sequencing method as well as Next Generation platforms available from Roche 454® and Illumina®.   

Bob Steinhauser, DNASTAR’s Director of Marketing, “Wageningen University is one of the leading life science research universities in Europe.  DNASTAR has been building its relationship with the Wageningen University for many years.   We are very pleased that the University chose our software for their sequence assembly and analysis research needs.   We continue to see business trends where organizations are trending towards standardizing their research platforms to simplify data sharing among their scientists.   Lasergene’s novel features and broad applications base make it an excellent platform choice to address present and future genomic research needs.” 

Lasergene is a comprehensive, easy to use suite of tools for molecular biologists and geneticists used primarily in the assembly and analysis of DNA and protein sequences.  The software provides researchers with a broad range of analysis tools that can be used with traditional and Next-Generation sequence analysis projects.  It has been sold in over 65 countries worldwide.  Wageningen University joins a growing list of public and private organizations worldwide that are utilizing the Lasergene sequence analysis software program.

About the Wageningen University
Wageningen University is one of the leading life science research universities in Europe.  Its collaboration with the Van Hall Larenstein School of Higher Professional Education and research institutes from the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture to form Wageningen UR provide the working ground for over 9,000 scientists in fields of life science and natural resource research. 

About DNASTAR
DNASTAR, Madison, Wisconsin,   (www.DNASTAR.com) has been a pioneer in the development and sales of bioinformatics software used to increase researcher’s productivity for more than 24 years.  Currently, DNASTAR produces Lasergene, a sequence analysis software suite; SeqMan NGen, an assembly tool specifically designed for use with Next Generation sequencing platforms; GenVision, a data visualization software application; and ArrayStar, a microarray gene expression visualization and analysis tool.