Formerly known as Genosys Biotechnologies and before that Genetic Design, inDecember 1998, the company was acquired by Sigma-Aldrich. The new entity maintains manufacturing facilities in The Woodlands, Texas, US; Cambridge, U.K.; Hokkaido, Japan and Sydney, Australia. Sigma-Genosys is a supplier of custom synthetic DNA (oligos), gene arrays, and synthetic peptides, and a supplier of research reagents to the global life science research community.