CLONTECH develops, produces and markets innovative biological products to the life science market worldwide. CLONTECH is a wholly owned subsidiary of Becton, Dickinson and Company. With the thousands of genes thus far identified, new horizons have opened up. The Genomics Era has evolved into the Functional Geonomics Era, and the challenge now is to elucidate the function of the proteins encoded by the myriad of genes characterized. CLONTECH is more than prepared to help scientists forge ahead into this brave new era.