Illumina, Inc.

Illumina is developing next generation tools that permit large-scale analysis of genetic variation and function.  The company's proprietary BeadArray™ technology - now used in leading genome centers around the world - provides the throughput cost effectiveness and flexibility to enable research in the life sciences and pharmaceutical industries to perform the billions of tests necessary to extract medically valuable information from advances in genomics and proteomics.  This information will help pave the way to personalized medicine.