Profile: Ciphergen Biosystems, Inc develops & manufactures proteinchip systems that enable protein discovery, characterization and assay development. Our proteinchip system use SELDI (surface-enhanced laser desorption/ionization) proteinchip technology to rapidly perform the separation, detection and analysis of proteins at the femtomole level directly from biological samples. Our proteinchip arrays uses proteinchip readers & user-friendly proteinchip software to capture and analyze biologically important molecules from a variety of sources.