sentences:  In 2004, Mike Hunkapiller retired and Cathy Burzik replaced him as President of Applied Biosystems.Applera collaborated with General Electric, Abbott Laboratories, Seattle Genetics, and Merck in diagnostics development.Applied Biosystmes also teamed with Northrop Grumman and Cepheid of Sunnyvale, California, to detect Bacillus anthracis during the anthrax contamination case of the U.S.