Enza Chooses Fluidigm BioMark System to Help Assure Core

Seed Quality
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fluidigm Corporation and BIOK, a licensed
distributor for the company, today announced that Enza Zaden, one of the worlds leading suppliers
of high-quality vegetable seeds for agriculture, has chosen the Fluidigms BioMark System for
Genetic Engineering and the new 96.96 Dynamic Array to help assure the quality of its seed supply.
As the worlds food supply increasingly faces new demands for high-yielding and disease resistant
crops, the need for high-quality seeds of varieties that produce great tasting, nutritious vegetables
remains high. With different soil characteristics and climate zones impacting the growing
experience, the world is no longer a place where the same seed meets everyones need. Enza Zaden
has responded by utilizing genetically-based marker-assisted selection techniques to choose its
seeds and check hundred-of-thousands of them to help ensure that it delivers just the right flavor
product for everyones palate and breeding for the right varieties to meet everyones need.
Fluidigms BioMark System uses integrated fluidic circuit (IFC) technology to reduce complexity,
improve throughput with nanoliter precision and provide significant cost-savings (less reagent and
smaller samples) for high-throughput genotyping applications. Fluidigms new BioMark 96.96
Dynamic Array is capable of performing 9,216 simultaneous real-time PCR experiments running
gold-standard TaqMan assays in nanoliter quantities.
We consider the 96.96 Dynamic Arrays a massive parallel monoplex PCR platform. We were
surprised by the ease with which we could convert our standard markers for multiplex detection,
said Jeroen Rouppe van der Voort Ph.D., Manager Biotechnology Research and Applications, Enza
Zaden Research and Development B.V.
With the introduction of Fluidigms new 96.96 dynamic arrays, a specific gap has been filled in the
area of number-of-samples times number-of-markers needed. We have searched a long time for a
platform that provides the user-friendliness, speed and reliability that the BioMark System and the
96.96 Dynamic Array brings to our efforts, concluded Rouppe van der Voort.
Enza Zaden selects seed characteristics for a wide variety of vegetable crops that match the wishes
and requirements of its customers throughout the world. This marker-assisted breeding helps assure
that each seed results in high-yielding crop plants with extended disease resistance for the regions
in which they will be grown, said Gajus Worthington, President and CEO of Fluidigm. We are excited
and proud that our BioMark System can help Enza Zaden provide the very best product for its
customers.
About Fluidigm
Fluidigm develops, manufactures and markets proprietary Integrated Fluidic Circuit (IFC) systems
that significantly improve productivity in life science research. Fluidigms IFCs enable the
simultaneous performance of thousands of sophisticated biochemical measurements in extremely
minute volumes. These integrated circuits for biology are made possible by miniaturizing and
integrating liquid handling components on a single microfabricated device. Fluidigms IFC systems,
consisting of instrumentation, software and single-use IFCs, increase throughput, decrease costs
and enhance sensitivity compared to conventional laboratory systems. Fluidigm products have not
been cleared or approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use as a diagnostic and are only

available for research use.

For more information, please visit www.Fluidigm.com.
About BIOK
BIOK is a key provider of products and services in life sciences. The companys aim is to accelerate
the progress in R&D and diagnostics of customers in academic, hospital and other research settings
as well as pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. BIOK provides products and services in the
field of genomics, proteomics & molecular diagnostics. Through many years of experience in the life
sciences sector combined with a highly trained staff, BIOK provides excellent technical support and
market knowledge, resulting in added value for its customers. BIOK was appointed as Fluidigms
exclusive distributor for the BioMark System for real-time PCR and genotyping in the Benelux in
August 2007.
Fluidigm, the Fluidigm logo, Topaz, BioMark, and NanoFlex are trademarks of Fluidigm
Corporation.