Table 2.

Genomics firms taxonomy

Category	Description
AGRIVET	Agriculture and veterinary genomics
DATABSE	Database creation, subscription, or licensing
DNASEQN	DNA sequencing
DNATEST	DNA testing service, clinical or diagnostic screening
DRUGDEV	Drug, biologic, and vaccine development
GENEFNL	Gene function and functional genomics; characterization of genes and their products
GENEMAP	Gene mapping; linkage, association studies; SNP discovery, use and analysis
GENEPOP	Genetic epidemiology; population studies
GENETFR	Gene transfer and gene therapy; vectors for gene therapy
GENEXPR	Gene expression analysis; microarray analysis; analysis of siRNAs and other regulation element
IDNTFCN	DNA forensics, DNA identification service
INFRMTX	Bioinformatics for DNA analysis; data mining
INSTRMT	Instruments for DNA analysis
LEGLSVC	Legal services; privacy protection
PHRMGEN	Pharmacogenetics or pharmacogenomics
STANDRD	Setting standards, testing service benchmarks
SUPPLYR	Genomics reagents supplier; microarray manufacturer; service provider
TRSTFND	Trust fund or genomics capital source
SYNBIOL	Synthetic biology