FOSTER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Applied Biosystems (NYSE:ABI), an Applera Corporation business, today announced the worldwide availability of new gene expression analysis tools that are expected to give life science researchers added flexibility and greater efficiency in performing experiments that identify and quantify key genes in biological samples. The TaqMan® Express Plates are 96-well reaction plates containing dried-down assays selected from more than 50,000 of Applied Biosystems TaqMan® Gene Expression Assays, in customized sets.