TUCSON, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Research Corporation Technologies (RCT) partner Flanders Institute for Biotechnology (VIB) has sequenced and annotated the genome for Pichia pastoris, the cornerstone of RCT’s Pichia protein expression platform. Pichia has become one of the more widely used microbial production hosts to express recombinant proteins, with more than 120 companies using RCT’s platform worldwide.