FOSTER CITY, Calif. & WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 4, 2006--Applied Biosystems (NYSE:ABI - News), an Applera Corporation business, today announced at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) that it has entered into a collaboration with the Core Genotyping Facility, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., a contractor for the National Cancer Institute (NCI), on a series of biomarker studies for cancer research.