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23andMe - Mountain View, CA - personal genomics services

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A.P. Pharma - Redwood City, CA - polymer-based drug delivery
Accelrys - San Diego, CA ; Princeton, NJ; Cambridge, U.K. - enterprise-wide software development
Accuray - Sunnyvale, CA - develops image-guided radiosurgery devices
Acologix - Hayward, CA - biology-based drug discovery and development
Affymax - Palo Alto, CA - combinatorial chemistry of peptide therapeutics
Affymetrix - Santa Clara, CA - photolithographic DNA microarrays
Agilent Technologies - Palo Alto, CA - instrumentation and reagents for life sciences
AgraQuest - Davis, CA - natural pesticides
AGY Therapeutics - South San Francisco, CA - genomics-based drug discovery for the treatment of CNS diseases
Alexza MDC - Palo Alto, CA - drug delivery technology
Allometra - Davis, CA - makers of PyMood, genomics data visualization software
Alpha Innotech - San Leandro, CA - laboratory imaging systems
ALTA Analytical Laboratory - El Dorado Hills, CA ; San Diego, CA - mass spec services
Alteon - Parsippany, NJ - anti-aging therapeutics
Alza - Mountain View, CA - drug delivery
Amarin - London, UK; Mill Valley, CA; Sweden - therapeutics for neurology and pain management
Amphora Discovery - Durham, NC ; Mountain View, CA - analyzes therapeutic effects of a large chemical database (chemical genomics)
Amyris Biotechnologies - Albany, CA - specialty chemical synthesis with transgenic microbes
Anacor Pharmaceuticals - Palo Alto, CA - develops novel antiinfectives
AnaSpec - San Jose, CA - molecular biology reagents and services
Angiogenix - Burlingame, CA - biopharmaceutical company focusing on the treatment of ischemia.
Angiotech BioMaterials - Palo Alto, CA - tissue repair and regeneration products
Applied Biosystems Group (ABI) - Foster City, CA - molecular biology instrumentation and reagents
Applied GeneX - Davis, CA - gene expression analysis services
Applied Genomics - Huntsville, AL ; Burlingame, CA - antibody-based cancer diagnostics
Applied Imaging - San Jose, CA - image analysis instrumentation for cytogenetics and pathology
AppliedGeneX - Davis, CA - gene expression services
Aradigm - Hayward, CA - drug delivery technology
Arcturus - Mountain View, CA ; Carlsbad, CA - laser capture microdisection equipment and genomics reagents
Array Automation - Fullerton, CA - automated lifescience solutions (including non-photolithographic microarrays)
Arriva Pharmaceuticals - Alameda, CA - protease inhibitor therapeutics for the treatment of respiratory and dermatological diseases
ARYx Therapeutics - Santa Clara, CA - redesign of proven therapeutics to reduce toxicity
Aspira Biosystem - Burlingame, CA - proteomics
Attenuon - San Diego, CA - cancer therapeutics
Aura BioSystems - San Jose, CA - microchip cell assays
Avigen - Alameda, CA - viral vectors for human gene therapy
Axon Instruments - Union City, CA - microarray scanners

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Bacchus Vascular - Santa Clara, CA - medical devices for the removal of blood clots
BarrX - Sunnyvale, CA - radio-frequency (RF) ablative device for the treatment of Barrett's Esophagus
Bayer Pharma - Berkeley, CA - prescription medications, biological products, and biotechnology
BD Biosciences - San Jose, CA - BD business unit with subunits (Clontech, Discovery Labware, Immunocytometry Systems and Pharmingen)
BD Biosciences Clontech - Palo Alto, CA - molecular biology reagents, cDNA filter arrays
Beckman Coulter - Fullerton, CA - instrumentation
Berlex - Montville, NJ ; Richmond, CA; Seattle, WA - pharmaceuticals
Bio-Rad - Hercules, CA - molecular biology reagents, instrumentation and diagnostics
BioControl Systems (BCS) - Sebastopol, CA - physiological monitoring devices
BioGenex - San Ramon, CA - histology and cytology diagnostics
Biolog - Hayward, CA - cell-based assays
Biomarin Pharmaceutical - Novato, CA - fully integrated pharmaceutical company
Biopharm Systems - San Mateo, CA - clinical trials IT and data management
Biosearch Technologies - Novato, CA - oligonucleotide and fluorescent dye reagents
BioSeek - Burlingame, CA - human systems biology drug discovery
Biotique Systems - Emeryville, CA - bioinformatics consulting and design
BioVision - Mountain View, CA - apoptosis and cell signaling reagents
BioZone Laboratories - Pittsburg, CA - contract manufacturing
BN ImmunoTherapeutics - Palo Alto, CA - cancer vaccine research

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Caliper LifeSciences - Hopkinton, MA ; Mountain View, CA - microfluidic LabChip
Callida Genomics - Sunnyvale, CA - sequencing by hybridization
Caltag Laboratories - Burlingame, CA - multi-color immunological assays for flow cytometry
Calypte Biomedical - Portland, OR - HIV and STD diagnostics
Cardica - Redwood City, CA - develops automated surgical devices for coronary artery bypass surgery
CCS Associates - Mountain View, CA - drug development consulting
Celera - Rockville, MD ; South San Francisco, CA - genomics-based diagnostics
Celera Diagnostics - Alameda, CA - medical diagnostic joint venture between Applied Biosystems and Celera Genomics
Cell Biosciences - Palo Alto, CA - protein analytic instruments and reagents
Cell Genesys - South San Francisco, CA ; San Diego, CA; Memphis, TN - human gene therapy; viral therapeutics
Cellegy Pharmaceuticals - South San Francisco, CA - therapeutics targeting gastroenterology conditions and sexual dysfunction using topical formulations and nitric oxide donor technologies
Cellerant Therapeutics - Palo Alto, CA - hematopoietic stem cell-based therapeutics
CellGate - Sunnyvale, CA - developing improved drug delivery based on their transporter molecules
Cepheid - Sunnyvale, CA ; Maurens-Scopont, France - DNA analysis instruments based on microfluidics and microelectronics
Cerus - Concord, CA - therapeutics based on the inhibition of nucleic acid replication
ChemGenex Pharmaceuticals - Menlo Park, CA - chemical genomics-based cancer therapeutics
ChemoCentryx - Mountain View, CA - chemokine-based therapeutics
Chiron - Emeryville, CA - develops products for preventing and treating cancer and infectious diseases
Clarient - San Juan Capistrano, CA ; Irvine, CA - image-based cancer diagnostics
Codexis - Redwood City, CA - chemical products and services
Compaq - Houston, TX ; Boston, MA; Cupertino, CA - life science hardware solutions
Complete Genomics - Mountain View, CA - next-gen sequencing
Concentric Medical - Mountain View, CA - develops medical devices used in Interventional Neuroradiology
Connetics - Palo Alto, CA - drug development for connective tissue diseases
Corcept Therapeutics - Menlo Park, CA - developing therapeutics to treat psychotic major depression
Corgentech - South San Francisco, CA - therapeutics based on transcription factor decoys
CV Therapeutics - Palo Alto, CA - small molecule therapeutics for cardiovascular disease
Cytokinetics - South San Francisco, CA - small molecule drug discovery programs in cytoskeletal pharmacology, specifically for treating cancer
Cytoplex Biosciences - Dallas, TX ; Kalamazoo, MI; San Leandro ,CA - ion channel biosensors for cell-based assays

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Deltagen - Redwood City, CA - drug discovery tools and services using animal knockout models
DepoMed - Menlo Park, CA - develops oral drug delivery systems
diaDexus - South San Francisco, CA - genomics-driven drug discovery and diagnostics development
DiscoveRx - Fremont, CA ; Birmingham, U.K. - cell-based assay development
DNA 2.0 - Menlo Park, CA - custom gene synthesis and protein engineering
Dynavax - Berkeley, CA - development of therapeutics based on "immunostimulatory sequences"

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EGeen International - Foster City, CA - pharmacogenetic development of known drugs based on info from the Estonia Genome Project
Eksigent Technologies - Livermore, CA - microfluidic devices
Entelos - Foster City, CA - PhysioLab software for drug development reserach
Epitomics - South San Francisco, CA - monoclonal antibody production
Eureka Pharmaceuticals - San Francisco, CA - pharma
Evolutionary Bioinformatics - Menlo Park, CA - bioinformatics consulting
Exelixis - South San Francisco, CA - human therapeutics based on model genetic organisms

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Fibrogen - South San Francisco, CA - extracellular matrix biology-related diseases
FivePrime Therapeutics - South San Francisco, CA - protein and antibody therapeutic discovery
Fluidigm - South San Francisco, CA - microfluidic chips

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Galileo Pharmaceuticals - Santa Clara, CA - drug development targeting redox signaling pathways
GeMune - San Francisco, CA - gene and tissue profiling using monoclonal antibodies
GeneEd - San Francisco, CA - life science e-learning solutions
Genelabs Technologies - Redwood City, CA - SLE (Lupus) therapeutics
Genencor - Palo Alto, CA - biotechnology of industrial enzymes
Genentech - South San Francisco, CA - human disease therapeutics
Genetic Savings & Clone - Sausalito, CA - gene banking and animal (pet) cloning
GeneTrol Biotherapeutics - Oakland, CA - develops and commercializes proteins for the treatment of human diseases.
Genomic Health - Redwood City, CA - genomics-based diagnostics for clinical research
Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation - San Diego, CA - genomics research institute focused on neurosciences, immunology, signal transduction and microbiology/virology
Genopsys - Santa Cruz, CA - molecular optimization of protein structure
GenoRx - Hayward, CA - bioelectronic detection tools
GenoSpectra - Fremont, CA - low multi-plex gene expression assay
Genteric - Alameda, CA - gene-based protein drug delivery
Geron Corporation - Menlo Park, CA - oncology and regenerative medicine based on telomerase, human embryonic stem cells and nuclear transfer
Gilead - Foster City, CA - biopharmaceutical therapeutics for human disease
Gryphon Therapeutics - South San Francisco, CA - protein technologies
Guava Technologies - Hayward, CA - cellular analysis instrumentation

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Illumina - San Diego, CA ; Wallingford, CT (CyVera); Hayward, CA (Solexa); Little Chesterford (Solexa) - DNA microarray and next-gen sequencing
Ingenuity Systems - Redwood City, CA - biology and bioinformatics software
InSite Vision - Alameda, CA - ophthalmic diagnositcs and drug delivery
InterMune Pharmaceuticals, Inc. - Brisbane, CA - development of treatements for pulmonary and infectious diseases and cancer
IntraBiotics Pharmaceuticals - Mountain View, CA - antimicrobial and oncology therapeutics
IntraPace - Menlo Park, CA - gastric pacemakers

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Juvaris BioTherapeutics - Pleasanton, CA - platform for the development of immunotherapeutic vaccines

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Kosan Biosciences - Hayward, CA - polyketides-based drug discovery
Kumetrix - Union City, CA - blood analyte monitoring using silicon micro-needles

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Large Scale Biology - Vacaville, CA ; Owensboro, KY; Germantown, MD - plant transformation with viral vector/functional genomics and proteomics and proteomics-based drug discovery
LightSpeed Genomics - Sunnyvale, CA - next-gen sequencing
Lipomics Technologies - West Sacramento, CA - lipid metabolism analyses and technologies; contract services

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Maxygen - Redwood City, CA - molecular breeding
MDL Information Systems - San Leandro, CA - discovery informatics software
Medarex - Princeton, NJ ; Milpitas, CA - monoclonal antibody-based therapeutics
Mendel Biotechnology - Hayward, CA - plant functional genomics
Mergen - San Leandro, CA - gene expression with spotted oligo microarrays
Miikana Therapeutics - Fremont, CA ; Toronto, Canada - drug discovery and in-lincensing of therapeutics targeting the inhibition of histone deacetylases and the proteasome
Milagen - Emeryville, CA - multiplexed protein detection
MiraiBio - Alameda, CA - bioinformatics software provider
MMI Genomics - Davis, CA - livestock genotyping
Molecular Devices - Sunnyvale, CA - reagents and instrumentation for the life sciences
Monogram Biosciences - South San Francisco, CA - viral disease technologies

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NanoInk - Chicago, IL ; Campbell, CA - nanotechnology company which develops biotech applications
Nanophotonics Biosciences - Menlo Park, CA - next-gen sequecing
Nanosyn - Menlo Park, CA - small molecule compounds (medicinal chemistry)
Navigenics - Redwood Shores, CA - personal genomics services
Nektar Therapeutics - San Carlos, CA - develops drug delivery technology and early stage drug development
Neugenesis - San Carlos, CA - monoclonal antibody production
Neurobiological Technologies - Emeryville, CA - neuroscience therapeutics
NeurogesX - San Carlos, CA - therapeutics for the treatment of pain and nerve signaling disorders
Nexus Genomics - Mountain View, CA ; Fulton, MA - bioinformatics services
Novacea - South San Francisco, CA - cancer therapeutics
Novozymes Biotech - Davis, CA - engineering industrial enzymes (US R&D subsidiary of Novozymes A/S)
NuGEN Technologies, Inc. - San Carlos, CA - single primer isothermal amplication (SPIA)
Nuvelo - San Carlos, CA - therapeutics discovery and development

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Onyx Pharmaceuticals - Emeryville, CA - human disease therapuetics
Oracle - Redwood Shores, CA - database solutions for the life sciences

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Pacific Biosciences - Menlo Park, CA - next-gen sequencing company
Pain Therapeutics - South San Francisco, CA - painkiller development
Panomics - Redwood City, CA - membrane-based DNA and protein array products
ParAllele - South San Francisco, CA - highly multiplexed SNP genotyping technology
Peninsula Pharmaceuticals - Alameda, CA - anti-infective therapeutics
Perlegen Sciences - Santa Clara, CA - whole genome scanning to determine genetic variation and how it relates to human disease
Pharmacyclics - Sunnyvale, CA Sunnyvale, CA - small molecule (texaphyrins)-based pharmaceuticals
PharmQuest - Mountain View, CA - software for pharmaceutical development
Pharsight - Mountain View, CA - drug development consulting services
Pherin Pharmaceuticals - Redwood City, CA - CNS pharmaceuticals which act via the vomeronasal organ (pheromone sensory organ)
Planet Biotechnology - Hayward, CA - monoclonal-antibody therapeutics produced in plants
Plexxikon - Berkeley, CA - protein structure-based drug discovery
Polymorphic DNA Technologies - Alameda, CA - genomic (SNP) services
Predicant Biosciences - South San Francisco, CA - diagnostics based on body fluid analysis
Predictive Diagnostics - Vacaville, CA - serum-based cancer diagnostics
Protein Design Labs - Fremont, CA - monoclonal antibodies
ProteomTech - Emeryville, CA - protein production and services, including native folding

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Quark Biotech - Fremont, CA Cleveland, OH; Chicago, IL; Pleasanton, CA; Israel - genomics-based drug discovery and development
Questcor - Union City, CA - markets CNS-related therapeutics

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Rational Genomics - South San Francisco, CA - genomics software
Raven Biotechnologies - South San Francisco, CA - monoclonal antibody therapeutics
Receptor BioLogix - San Francisco, CA - protein therapeutics for the treatment of cancer, autoimmune and metabolic diseases
Renovis - South San Francisco, CA - neurological therapeutics
Rigel Pharmaceuticals - South San Francisco, CA - retroviral-based small molecule drug discovery
Roche Palo Alto - Palo Alto, CA - R&D unit of Roche Holding focusing on the discovery of new medicines for a wide variety of dieseases

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Saegis Pharmaceuticals - Half Moon Bay, CA Half Moon Bay, CA - pharmaceuticals for enhancing memory and brain function
Sangamo BioSciences - Richmond, CA - engineered transcription factors for gene regulation
SciClone Pharmaceuticals - San Mateo, CA - infectious disease and cancer therapeutics
Scimagix - San Mateo, CA - image data management software
Scios - Fremont, CA - human therapuetics
SomaGenics - Santa Cruz, CA - RNA-based translation inhibitors for functional genomics and therapeutics
Spring BioScience - Fremont, CA - gene and protein expression reagents
SRI Biosciences - Menlo Park, CA - contract research organization for drug discovery and development
StemCells - Palo Alto, CA - human neural stem cell therapeutics
Sun - Santa Clara, CA - life sciences hardware solutions
Sunesis Pharmaceuticals - South San Francisco, CA - small molecule drug discovery
SuperGen - Dublin, CA - oncology therapeutics (generally acquired in late stage development)
SurroMed - Mountain View, CA - biomarker-enabled drug discovery
Symyx - Santa Clara, CA - combinatorial chemistry and software solutions for the life sciences, chemical, and electronics industries
Synergia Pharma - South San Francisco, CA - drug discovery for neurological disorders

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Technologene - Los Gatos, CA - recombinant molecule production technology
TeleChem International - Sunyvale, CA - customized and standard microarrays
Telik - Palo Alto, CA - discovery and development of small-molecule biopharmaceuticals
Tercica - South San Francisco, CA - endocrine therapeutics
Therapeutic Human Polyclonals - Mountain View, CA - antibody therapeutics
TheraSense - Alameda, CA - blood glucose monitoring
Theravance - South San Francisco, CA - multivalent drug design
Thermogenesis - Rancho Cordova, CA - thermodynamic instrumentation
Threshold Pharmaceuticals - Redwood City, CA - conjugation chemistry-based pharmaceuticals for the treatment of cancer
Titan Pharmaceuticals - South San Francisco, CA - CNS and cancer based pharmaceuticals
Tosk - Santa Cruz, CA - transgenic mouse and rat production
Trace Genetics - Richmond, CA - genomics services
TransOral Pharmaceuticals - Corte Madera, CA - oral drug delivery technology
Trinity Biosystems - Palo Alto, CA - novel vaccines development using proprietary drug
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Valentis - Burlingame, CA - gene-based human therapeutics
Vantus - Rancho Cordova, CA - veterinary stem cell laboratory services
Varian - Palo Alto, CA - radiation therapy equipment
VaxGen - Brisbane, CA - vaccine therapeutics
Ventria Bioscience - Sacramento, CA - recombinant protein production in barley (malting)
Vermillion - Fremont, CA - protein-based diagnostics
Vicuron Pharmaceuticals - Fremont, CA - antibiotic and antifungal therapeutics
Virtual Chemistry - Redwood City, CA ; San Diego, CA - custom software solutions for life sciences
VistaGen Therapeutics - Burlingame, CA - applied stem cell technology-based functional genomics drug discovery services
Visualize Inc. - Phoenix, AZ ; Gold River, CA - Data visualization software
Vitra Bioscience - Mountain View, CA - CellCard cell-based assays using encoded particle technology

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WaferGen - Fremont, CA - silicon wafer-based high-throughput screening and cell-based assays

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Xenogen - Alameda, CA - imaging and transgenic technologies
Xenomics - Richmond, CA - DNA-based diagnostics of urine samples
XenoPort - Santa Clara, CA - drug delivery technology
Xoma - Berkeley, CA - antibody-based therapeutics

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Zyomyx - Hayward, CA - proteomics technology development