FOSTER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Applied Biosystems (NYSE:ABI), an Applera Corporation business, today announced that its Software Development Community has established relationships resulting in two formal agreements intended to help scientists address next-generation sequencing bioinformatics challenges. Geospiza® and GenomeQuest will develop bioinformatics tools that are expected to advance data analysis and management for life scientists utilizing data generated by the SOLiD™ System, the life science industry’s highest throughput system for next-generation sequencing.