Pathologists meeting in Kissimmee

454 Life Sciences, a Roche Company (SWX:RO) (SWX:ROG) (Pink Sheets: RHHBY), announced today at the Association of Molecular Pathology Annual Meeting in Kissimmee, Florida a series of revolutionary developments which significantly expand the company’s high-throughput sequencing portfolio. Addressing the growing demand for next-generation sequencing data in everyday biological and clinical research, the company revealed the new GS Junior System, an affordable bench top sequencing platform slated for release in 2010.

The GS Junior System, which is no bigger than a typical laser printer, has performance and features tuned to fit the needs of small to medium sized laboratories. The platform will launch with long-read GS Junior Titanium chemistry, offering 400 – 500 bp read lengths, and will be shipped with a desktop computer that is optimized for GS Junior Run processing and downstream data analysis. “With the GS Junior System, we are extremely excited to make next-generation sequencing readily available to the individual researcher, just as the PC brought computing to the masses,” said Christopher McLeod, President and CEO of 454 Life Sciences. “This truly enabling technology is now affordable for nearly every research lab. At the same time, we continue to extend the performance of our flagship Genome Sequencer FLX System.”

For more information on 454 Sequencing Systems, visit www.454.com. To visit the GS Junior micro-site, visit www.gsjunior.com.