biotechnology founded 1994 founder larry jia headquarters irvine ca headquarters key people larry jia chairman and ceo website www.zymoresearch.com zymo research is an american manufacturer of molecular biology research tools . contents 1 history 2 products 2.1 epigenetics research tools 3 distribution 4 references 5 external links history edit zymo research corporation was founded by larry jia in 1994 . the company started its home base in orange ca in a garage manufacturing products for dna and rna extraction and purification and other specialty products for e. coli and yeast based research . since then it has expanded its product offerings to include tools for epigenetics research . as of december 2010 the privately held company has relocated its headquartered operations to irvine ca . in 2009 zymo research europe was established in freiburg germany . it works as a distribution support hub for europe and the middle east and will also be initiating research and development programs at a new facility intended for state of the art researching . products edit the company is a supplier of dna extraction and rna extraction kit products used to isolate and purify dna and rna from various sample sources ranging from tough to lyse environmental samples to tissue blood and serum samples . 1 they have expanded in recent years and today have emerged as an epigenetics company offering products in dna methylation and dna hydroxymethylation . epigenetics research tools edit zymo research offers from their epigenetics line up products for cpg methylation detection and quantitation . many of these products exploit the bisulfite conversion approach wherein unmethylated cytosine is converted to uracil allowing for downstream sequencing analysis . the company also offers polymerases optimized for pcr analysis of bisulfite converted dna as well as antibodies for ip based epigenetics research . in addition to their methylation portfolio zymo research recently began to offer product lines for analysis of 5 hydroxymethylcytosine . in late 2010 the company became the first to offer a kit for locus specific 5 hydroxymethylcytosine detection protection digestion amplification . included in the company s epigenetics portfolio are kits for nucleosomal dna purification chromatin immunoprecipitation and small rna isolation . distribution edit the company s products are distributed in north america and internationally through distributors located in europe asia south america africa australia and others . references edit 2 3 4 http bitesizebio.com 2008 01 21 dna gel extraction miniprep cleanup kits zymo http www.sciencemag.org site products lst 20091009 . xhtml http www.genengnews.com gen articles insights accrue on epigenetic modification 3177 page 4 archived copy . archived from the original on january 11 2011 . retrieved december 15 2010 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title zymo research & oldid 739246818 categories research support companies navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 13 september 2016 at 16 07 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view