OpGen, Inc

OpGen Incorporated is a privately held DNA molecular diagnostics company headquartered in Gaithersburg Maryland.The Company was founded in January 2002 by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (“WARF”) with the objectives of developing and commercializing products and services utilizing proprietary core Optical Mapping Technologies for high precision microbial analysis markets. Optical Mapping is a powerful technology uniquely designed to rapidly generate de novo, high-resolution, ordered, whole genome restriction maps from single DNA molecules. Optical Mapping provides a comprehensive view of microbial, yeast, or fungal genomic architecture, in samples of pure isolates or mixtures.

The Argus Optical Mapping System brings high resolution comparative genomics, whole genome sequence assembly and strain characterization into your laboratory in an innovative, cartridge-based, automated platform. OpGen began providing MapIt Optical Mapping Services as a commercial laboratory in 2004. Optical Mapping Technology is used today in diverse applications in the areas of clinical and food microbiology, epidemiology, pharmacology, manufacturing quality control and applied research.

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