Company Announcements

In June, John Wiley & Sons acquired SimBioSys, a provider of scientific-software tools that facilitate the drug-discovery process and a pioneer in the field of computer-aided retrosynthetic analysis.

Cresset appointed CloudScientific as a Chinese distributor in July.

Syapse raised $10 million in Series B financing, led by Safeguard Scientifics.

Simulations Plus agreed in July to acquire Cognigen, a provider of clinical trial–data analysis and reporting, for $7 million in cash and stock. The business is expected to add $5 million to Simulations’ revenues in the coming fiscal year. Cognigen President Dr. Thaddeus Grasela was appointed president of Simulations.

In August, RURO opened its first international office in Shanghai, China.

Neural ID announced the compatibility of its Intelligent Waveform Service with the TIBCO Spotfire platform.

Dotmatics introduced a new academic site-license program, available in packages for Chemistry Desktop, Chemistry Desktop and Visualization Productivity, and ELN.

Genospace announced an investment by Thomson Reuters, which is Thomson Reuters’ first investment in precision-medicine informatics.

Caris Life Sciences announced a collaboration with GenoSpace. Caris will apply GenoSpace’s population-analytics offering to uncover and better utilize insights from its tumor-profiling service.

Igenbio and Genome Compiler announced a collaborative agreement to create a synthetic-biology solution using Igenbio’s ERGO Genome Analysis & Discovery System.

BioData named Louis Culot as CEO in September. He was most recently vice president of Marketing and Business Development at BioDiscovery.

Product Introductions

SAS introduced the Life Science Analytics Framework, enabling clinical researchers to instantly query and analyze data in the cloud. It combines features of SAS Drug Development and SAS Clinical Data.

Genedata released Genedata Screening 12 in June. It features capabilities for data analysis from surface plasmon resonance, thermal shift, and combination and panel screens.

PerkinElmer launched ChemBioDraw Ultra, a digital-drawing tool with the ability to directly launch a search via a SciFinder button.

Optibrium introduced Sentira, a desktop application that provides visualization and analysis of compound data.

Certara released Muse Invent with new virtual synthetic-chemistry capabilities.