Agencourt Biosciences was established in 2000 to commercialized the SPRI bead DNA purification system developed at the MIT/ Whitehead Institute. Agencourt offers a wide range of Genomics and DNA sequencing services. One of the largest commercial DNA sequencing service providers with more than 25 ABI 3730xl instruments. Recently Agencourt was recently purchased by Beckman Coulter with their new DNA sequencing technology division being purchased by Applied Biosystems.