Company Announcements

In April, IDBS integrated its ELN for life sciences with Neural ID’s Intelligent Waveform Solution for automated biosignal recognition and analysis.

IDBS partnered with Rancho Biosciences in April, enabling the companies to provide mutual customers with manual data-curation services for IDBS’s E-WorkBook products in the translational and clinical-research arenas.

Ayasdi announced in April partnerships with the Innovative Medicines Initiative’s U-Biopred project, Intel and CLC bio.

ChemAxon announced the integration of Keymodule’s CLiDE OCSR software for chemical-structure recognition from structural images with its technology and the rights to sell CLiDE.

Simulations Plus agreed to terminate an exclusive software-licensing agreement with TSRL and to pay TSRL $6 million, ending its royalty payments on GastroPlus.

Advaita announced the receipt of a three-year, $1.76 million Phase III Small Business Investigational Research grant from the NIH National Institute of General Medical Sciences to develop its gene-pathway–analysis technology.

SAP announced a strategic collaboration with Stanford School of Medicine to research the contribution of genetics, environmental exposure, behavior and other factors to disease susceptibility using its HANA platform.

Cartagenia closed a $5.9 million financing round in May.

Indigo BioSystems announced in June the closing of an $8.5 million Series B round of funding.

Product Introductions

In April, the STARLIMS Forensic Business Unit introduced FR11.0, the first forensic release on the STARLIMS 11 platform.

Ayasdi launched the Ayasdi Cure application for its machine-learning platform designed to streamline the drug-discovery process. Features include compound-structure visualization, and a next-generation–sequencing analytics and variant viewer.

Certara released the Pre-clinical Safety Store software, a companion product to its D360 solution, which enables the capture and validation of file-based preclinical study data in a Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium Standard for Exchange of Nonclinical Data–based database.

SAS introduced JMP Genomics 7.0, featuring methods to correlate clinical phenotypes with rare or common genetic variants.

Genedata launched the Genedata Screener for Surface Plasmon Resonance. Codeveloped with AstraZeneca, it imports and analyzes full sensorgrams from commonly used SPR instruments.

RURO introduced in May Limfinity 5, featuring a new user interface and new graphical displays.