Zymark Corporation announces that Bruker Daltonics Inc. (NASDAQ: BDAL) has integrated Zymark?s Twister Universal Microplate Handler with the new autoflex? MALDI-TOF product. Twister is a low cost, bench-top microplate handler designed to standardize laboratory applications for microplate readers, washers and liquid handlers. Bruker Daltonics is using Twister to feed MALDI microplate targets to the autoflex MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer.

"Emerging industrial biology applications in genomics and proteomics require new design approaches for integrated life science systems based on mass spectrometry," commented Frank H. Laukien, President & chief executive of Bruker Daltonics. "Twister provides us with an automated interface between our proprietary AnchorChip? microplate format MALDI-targets and the autoflex, and will help further strengthen our leadership position in very high throughput, ultra-sensitive MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry."

?We are excited that Bruker Daltonics has selected the Twister Universal Microplate Handler to increase throughput on their new advanced mass spectrometry systems,? stated Zymark Corporation President and chief executive Kevin Hrusovsky. ?By making a modification to the Twister gripping mechanism, we are able to ensure highly reliable transfers of Bruker Daltonics new target design. Twister is now utilized by more than 55 different third party devices to increase throughput and walk-away time. It is great to combine resources with esteemed partners like Bruker Daltonics to together create the total solution.?

Bruker Daltonics is a leading developer and provider of innovative life science tools based on mass spectrometry. Its substantial investment in research and development allows it to design, manufacture, and market a broad array of products intended to meet the rapidly growing needs of a diverse customer base, including pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, proteomics companies, molecular diagnostics companies, academic institutions, and government agencies Bruker Daltonics has diverse technology platforms which integrate automated sample preparation and clean-up, advanced front-end AnchorChip MALDI targets and API source technology with cutting-edge proprietary MALDI-TOF, ESI-TOF, ion trap, and FTMS mass analyzers, as well as analysis and bioinformatics software Bruker Daltonics is also a worldwide leader in supplying mass spectrometry-based systems for substance detection and pathogen identification in security and defense applications. For more information on the autoflex MALDI-TOF MS or other Enabling Life Science Tools Based on Mass SpectrometryTM, please contact Bruker Daltonics at (978) 663-3660, ext.1149, or visit our website at: www.daltonics.bruker.com.

Zymark Corporation, located in Hopkinton, Mass., is a world-leading supplier of laboratory automation for the life science industry. The company?s Twister Universal Microplate Handler can be interfaced with a wide variety of devices from the industry?s leading instrumentation companies, and thus equips scientists with small bench-top workstations that allow the flexibility to meet changing laboratory needs. For information about Twister and other Zymark Corporation products, please visit: www.zymark.com. 

For additional information contact:
Jordana Estner
Marketing Communications
508) 497-6549
lynda.thomas@zymark.com

Twister is a trademark of Zymark Corporation. AutoFlex is a trademark of the Bruker LPA Group.