Roche Applied Science produced reagents and systems for related to DNA sequencing, microarrays, gene expression, and cell analysis.

Important fields of application of the company's products are the research and development areas of the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.

Roche Applied Science was founded in 1859 as Boehringer Mannheim, a developer of rare chemicals and pharmaceuticals.

As of 2011, Roche Applied Science's instrumentation products included genome sequencing platforms, an instrument to perform automated polymerase chain reactions (PCR) and product analyses, and a system for real-time, label-free cellular analysis for use in cell invasion/migration studies.

[1][2] Genome sequencing, formerly a part of the Applied Science portfolio, was moved into Molecular Diagnostics division.