NimbleGen Systems Inc.

Main Activity in Nanotechnology

Material Manufacturer

About Company

NimbleGen Systems, the leading supplier of flexible high-density microarray products and services, is enabling a new era of "High-Definition GenomicsSM." NimbleGen uniquely produces high-density arrays of isothermal long oligos that provide superior results for advanced genomic analysis methods such as CGH, ChIP, microbial whole-genome resequencing and expression tiling. NimbleGen's High-Definition Genomics enables scientists to obtain and integrate complex genetic data sets not previously accessible, providing a much clearer understanding of genomics and systems biology. This improved performance is made possible by NimbleGen's Maskless Array Synthesis (MAS) technology, which uses digital light processing and rapid, high-yield photochemistry to synthesize DNA.

NimbleGen Systems was established in 1999. The MAS technology is the result of research collaborations between the departments of biotechnology, genetics, physics, and semiconductor engineering at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. NimbleGen Systems has the exclusive worldwide license to the MAS technology from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF).