Company Announcements

Cheminformatics firm Optibrium announced in November 2016 a collaboration with Molport, a provider of a chemicals database, marketplace and order fulfillment platform.

Optibrium announced in January a collaboration with chemical source database firm eMolecules.

In January, Optibrium named Zastra Innovations as its sole distributor for India for StarDrop software for small molecule design, optimization and data analysis.

In November 2016, Dr. David D’Argenio retired from Simulations Plus’s Board.

Certara’s Simcyp Division launched in December 2016 a new strategic Quantitative Systems Toxicology initiative to advance mechanistic modeling. It leverages the company’s Quantitative Systems Pharmacology expertise and Cardiac Safety Simulator.

In January, Dotmatrics and 3E, an environmental health and safety compliance and information management service, announced a strategic alliance. Dotmatrics will integrate 3E’s 3E Online Safety Data Sheet management solution and Ariel substance-level chemical regulatory content with several of its products.

Schrödinger announced in January the integrations of the open source QUANTUM EXPRESSION density functional theory modeling software with its Materials Science Suite for the expanded use of first principles simulation. It expands applications to include chemical structures with crystalline structures.

Product Introductions

Life science R&D software firm Benchling introduced in November 2016 its Bioregistry system for complex biological entity registration and strain management, stating that it can accommodate the complete hierarchy of antibody discovery workflows.

In November 2016, Core Informatics released a validated cloud infrastructure offering built on Amazon Web Services for regulated and GxP customers.

Dotmatics launched in November 2016 Vortex for Bioinformatics, an easy-to-use program for analysis and visualization, which can handle whole genome, antibody, protein and peptide data types.

In November 2016, PerkinElmer released enhancements to its PerkinElmer Signals Perspectives platform, providing advanced text analytics and semantic understanding for unstructured data.

Wiley launched in November 2016 the Wiley Spectra Lab Desktop edition and Server edition for managing analytical data.

In December 2016, CloudLIMS.com introduced CloudLIMS Lite, enabling enhanced batch editing and centralized sample management, and featuring a new user interface.

RURO announced in December 2016 that its Limsfinity framework is now available on RURO’s Cloud.

In January, Certara introduce Simcyp Population-based Simulator v16. The platform is used to determine first in-human dose selection. New features include an enhanced lung model and new dermal absorption model.

In January, Certara launched D360 v9, featuring “virtual compound support” for creating and sharing new chemical structure ideas,  and D360 Express.

IDBS launched in January the E-Workbook Cloud, an enterprise platform featuring eight modules: ELN, Integrations (application user interfaces for integration of existing systems), Assay, Inventory, Connect (supporting B2B collaboration), Biology, Chemistry and Request.

In January, Genedata introduced Data Science Services for on-demand, project-based expertise in omic data analysis and interpretation for precision medicine. It is designed for use by pharmaceutical R&D organizations for omics-based patient profiling projects.

Lab-Ally released in January its CERF ELN v5.0, a combined ELN and document manager.

Sales and Orders of Note

ACD/Labs announced in November 2016 that Boehringer Ingelheim selected its ACD/NMR Workbook Suite, ACD/NMR Predictors and ACD/Spectrus Processor for use by several hundred scientists.

In January, LabVantage Solutions announced it was selected to replace an existing, custom LIMS at industrial technology firm Kennametal’s Quentin C. McKenna Center.

IDBS announced in January that genome editing firm Precision BioSciences implemented its E-Workbook.