GATC Biotech was a German company specialist in DNA and RNA sequencing for academic and industrial partners worldwide.
Founded in 1990 the company concentrated in the early days on commercialising a nonradioactive sequencing technology platform,[1] patented by Prof. Pohl, one of the founders of GATC.
The direct blotting electrophoresis system, the GATC 1500 was utilised in the European Saccharomyces cerevisiae[2] genome project.
As part of the Gene Alliance, founded in 1998, the company was involved in the large-scale genome analysis project Aspergillus niger funded by DSM (The Netherlands) and finished in 2001.
[3] In 2006 the company started to develop the next generation sequencing business division adding the Europe's first commercial PacBio RS platform in 2011.