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Applera
Applera Corporation
of
Norwalk, Connecticut
, at #874 on the 2007
Fortune 1000
list, was one of the largest international
biotechnology
companies based in the United States. It was the successor company to what was the Life Sciences Division of
Perkin-Elmer
Corporation. Applera was not publicly traded, but instead it consisted of two major groups which are publicly traded
tracking stocks
in the
proteomics
industrial sector. These two groups were the
S&P 500
listed
Applera Corp-
Applied Biosystems
Group
of
Foster City, California
, and
Applera Corp-
Celera Genomics
Group
of
Rockville, Maryland
. In 2006, the company spun off the Celera Genomics group and changed its name from Applera to
Applied Biosystems
.
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