Using automated sequencing machines from Perkin-Elmer, DeCode sequenced the DNA from the healthy and the sick to locate the gene.

FORBES: Genes for sale

Perkin-Elmer, for years an also-ran instrument maker, last month raised its visibility (and market cap) by forming a spinout company to generate genomic information.

FORBES: Tailor-made drugs

The private genome project is being undertaken by Celera, a company based in Rockville, Maryland, that is owned by Perkin Elmer, a scientific-instrument maker.

ECONOMIST: Genomic pronouncements | The

TIGR, and Michael Hunkapiller, the president of Perkin-Elmer's applied biosystem division.

ECONOMIST: Genetic warfare

The early DNA sequencers that were used in the Human Genome Project started out at Perkin-Elmer before a restructuring made the technology part of a separate company.

FORBES: PerkinElmer Enters DNA Sequencing Market

Hubble, too, was built by Lockheed, but its own near-fatal flaw, an improperly shaped mirror which crippled the telescope for three years, was the fault of the mirror's manufacturer, Perkin-Elmer.

ECONOMIST: Genesis had its switches in backwards

Perkin-Elmer's new machine refines this process and automates it.

ECONOMIST: Genetic warfare