Happy New Year, dear partners!

2007 was a year of fast development and growth for Bioatlas in many ways. Our product portfolio, among other smaller introductions now includes the new Titan line of polymerases which offers our partners lower cost and longer shelf-life – something that many of our partners have asked for and our team is now much larger both in terms of our internal team as well as the number of resellers we are working with.

Looking forward into 2008, we see continuing development in the same main areas. We already have interesting new products in the development pipeline and hope to bring the first ones to you in the first quarter of the new year. Current negotiations and activities by our partnership team also show us that we will continue to increase our number of clients in 2008 at the planned pace. All of this will naturally also require us to continue increase our team – which along with our clients and reputation, is one of our main values.

To close this rather lengthy narrative, we would like to express the sincere thank you to You – our clients from the whole Bioatlas team. We hope that 2007 was a good year for you in both professional and personal perspective. We wish we'll have a successful 2008 together!

With kind regards,
Bioatlas team

12.12.2007 Bioatlas launches Atlas Antifade

We are happy to announce our next addition to the Bioatlas product lineup – Atlas Antifade.

When exposed to excitation light, all fluorescent dyes fade (photobleach). The extent of photobleaching depends on the intensity and duration of illumination. The photon output of a dye represents the average number of cycles of excitation followed by fluorescence emission that the dye undergoes before it is irreversibly photobleached.
Atlas Antifade reagent minimizes photobleaching of experimental samples. It allows the visualization of fluorophores across entire spectrum: DAPI, FITC, R6G, Cy2, Cy3, Rhodamine, TexasRed, Cy3.5, Cy5, Cy5.5 and Cy7.

Applications:
Atlas Antifade is designed for microarray experiments and confocal fluorescence microscopy protecting dyes against photobleaching over spectrum. The glycerol-containing solution is ready-to-use and recommended for most applications. Detected microarrays can be stored 1-2 weeks at +4ºC in dark.

11.12.2007 Bioatlas joins the Estonian Biotechnology Association

Bioatlas is proud to become a member of the Estonian Biotechnology Association (EBio, www.biotech.ee). EBio is a national organization for the life science industry in Estonia and is a private non-profit organization. The main objective is to improve industry conditions and to support business development among the member companies and research institutions.

EBio is represents the industry with Estonian public institutions as well as with industry groups abroad.

01.12.2007 Bioatlas launches a selection of widely used buffers in liquid format

Powder format buffers for electrophoresis have been a part of Bioatlas product catalogue since 2006. Based on the feedback from our satisfied customers and partners we developed a line of ready-to-use liquid buffers. The selection of concentrated buffers includes the following buffers:

10x PBS
20x SSC
10x TBE
  5x TBE
10x TAE
10x Tris-Glycine
10x Tris-Glycine-SDS

Ready-to-use buffers ensure that our researchers can concentrate solely on their work by saving valuable time of buffer mixing.

01.11.2007 Bioatlas adds the Titan line to its catalogue

Keeping true to the core of Bioatlas’s vision of always trying to develop and improve the service we offer to our partners, we announce the addition of the Titan product line to our catalogue. By adding the Titan line to Atlas, we offer our partners a wider choice of reagents so that they are always able to find the one suitable for their specific application. The Titan range of polymerases also offers impressive shelf-life of up to 2 years, which can be especially helpful to our distributors and OEM customers.

As always, the Bioatlas team is working on next additions already, and we hope to be able to announce them to our current and new customers shortly.

01.11.2007 Bioatlas announces 2 new OEM partnerships in Europe

We are pleased to announce that two new life science reagent distributors have chosen Bioatlas as their OEM supplier of PCR reagents. One of our new partners is a leading company in an Eastern-European country, and the other one in Western-Europe. According to our respective agreements, we do not publish the names of our OEM partners.

01.11.2007 Bioatlas will have a new partner in Finland.

By mutual agreement, Bioatlas and BMTF ended the exclusive distribution agreement for Bioatlas products in Finland. We would like to thank BMTF for their co-operation and wish them all the success in their future business. We expect to announce a new distribution agreement for Finland shortly, as the negotiations have already started.

01.07.2007 Bioatlas announces signing of a distributor agreement in Serbia with Belit

Bioatlas and Belit are glad to be able to announce that Belit has become the exclusive distributor of Bioatlas branded PCR reagents in Serbia. Bioatlas sees South-East Europe as one of its key markets and we expect to announce new partnerships in the region in the next few months. Belit is a company with a proven track record or setting challenging goals on the marketplace and meeting them.

Interested customers can reach Belit d.o.o.:
E-mail:         marko.poznanovic@belit.co.yu
                   aljosa.tanaskovic@belit.co.yu
Phone:        +381 11 29 10 102
Fax:            +381 11 20 30 402
 

22.05.2007 Bioatlas relocates to Tartu Science Park

In relation to becoming one of the companies of Tartu Science Park, Bioatlas announces its relocation to a bigger facility at the Science Park. The new facility positions us close to our clients and partners, and allows us to upgrade our logistics and warehousing capability. Our new contacts are:

Address:      Bioatlas                    Riia 181A                    51014 Tartu                    Estonia E-mail:         info@bioatlas.com  Web page:    www.bioatlas.com  Phone:         +372 5562 4867 Fax:             +372 616 6755

21.05.2007 Bioatlas announces the rearrangements in quantities of enzyme units in catalogue for purchase orders

Responding to feedback from our customers and reselling partners, we have decided to optimize the quantities of enzyme units in our catalogue. Please check the catalogue numbers and quantities carefully in our last edition of catalogue or on our website before confirming the PO. We will keep the old quantities available for a transitional period, and apologize for any inconvenience this may cause to all of our clients and partners!

20.05.2007 Bioatlas announces expansion of portfolio of products with 10 high quality life science products

Bioatlas is glad to announce expansion of our current portfolio of products. We have added a new PCR Mix with an incorporated dye - 2x Atlas RedTaq PCR Mix, a whole new product line – Atlas Ready Mixed Buffer Powders, but also Atlas 10x TAE Buffer Solution and Atlas Ethidium Bromide Ready Mixed Solution. All provided with a high quality and with advisable price for all our customers and resellers all over the world.

02.05.2007 Bioatlas announces 3 new OEM partnerships in Western-Europe

During the last weeks Bioatlas has closed agreements with 3 OEM partners for supplying our portfolio of PCR reagents to the respective clients. As with the addition of each client, we are glad that the test results with our products have convinced our partners to choose Bioatlas as their supplier.

01.04.2007 Bioatlas announces a new OEM partnership in Eastern-Europe
  
Bioatlas is glad to add another OEM partner to its list of clients. A company from Eastern-Europe with a strong market presence has chosen us as the exclusive provider of their PCR reagents.

10.03.2007 Bioatlas announces 2 new OEM partnerships in South-East Asia

Bioatlas has signed partnership agreements with two more OEM partners for its PCR reagent portfolio in Asia. We are glad to be signing on new partners, who after testing our products both in-house as well as with their customers have chosen Bioatlas as their supplier of the reagent portfolio.

01.03.2007 Bioatlas announces signing of a distributor agreement in Finland with BMTF

Bioatlas and Biomolecular Tools Finland (BMTF) are happy to announce that BMTF has become the exclusive distributor of Bioatlas branded PCR reagents in Finland. Both companies see great potential in the partnership, and will be working together in the coming months to offer Bioatlas’s high quality reagents to researchers all around Finland.

Interested customers can reach BMTF:

Biomolecular Tools Finland Ltd.
www.bmtf.fi
sales@bmtf.fi
Phone: +358 40 5363 040
Fax: +358 420 953 873

15.01.2007 Bioatlas introduces updated and extended catalogue and website
  
We are very glad to introduce our new catalogue to our current and new partners. The catalogue is a result of a long process of development and hard work from Bioatlas team.

We have extended our selection of PCR reagents, so our customers are able to find a whole range of products from a single source.  We have added a number of ready-to-use PCR mixes, a new Pfu enzyme, as well as other PCR reagents to the portfolio.

We hope the new catalogue is well received by our partners, and area waiting for your feedback.

01.01.2007 Bioatlas wishes all its partners a Happy and Prosperous 2007!
  
2006 has been a very successful year for Bioatlas and we are happy that a number of companies have chosen us as their provider of high-quality molecular biology reagents.

We are working hard on extending our portfolio, and will have a new catalogue available in January, so please check back soon.