FOSTER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Applied Biosystems (NYSE:ABI), an Applera Corporation Business, today announced a new reagent kit designed to improve the workflow for DNA sequencing. The BigDye® XTerminator™ Purification Kit addresses the often cumbersome purification or ‘clean-up’ step in the Sanger Sequencing workflow to produce higher quality DNA sequence data faster and with significantly fewer steps than other purification methods.