Company Announcements

Advaita Bioinformatics entered into an exclusive distribution partnership with Riken Genesis in April for Japan for its iPathway Guide platform.

Core Informatics announced in July the closing of a $17.5 million Series B funding, led by Oak HC/FT.

In July, RURO partnered with Integrated Systems Engineering to provide its LIMS to biobanks, with optional customization to serve tissue banks and tissue microarray core labs.

In August, Genedata announced the first four partners for its Screener Ready-to-Run program for turnkey integrations: IntelliCyt, Labcyte, Nanion Technologies and Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Intel Health & Life Sciences and Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University launched the Collaboration Cancer Cloud, an open platform-as-a-service solution for precision medicine analytics. It allows institutions to securely share patient genomic, imaging and clinical data.

OSTHUS, a consulting and software integration company, announced a partnership for integrating Dotmatics’s products within its data warehouse solutions, and providing domain expertise and help in customer deployments.

In September, labfolder announced the closing of a seven-digit financing round.

IBM Watson Health announced collaborations with Boston Children’s Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center’s Departments of Pathology & Cell Biology and Systems Biology, ICON, Sage Bionetworks and Teva Pharmaceuticals.

Product Introductions

In July, Genedata introduced Selector 4.0 genome knowledge management solution, featuring new capabilities for reference-independent genome sequence comparisons with reduced data processing and analysis time.

In September, Genedata launched Screener 13.0 for in vitro screening. New capabilities include support of high-throughput flow cytometry, and drug metabolism and pharmacokinetics screens.

In July, Certara launched Simcyp In Vitro (Data) Analysis (SIVA) Toolkit 1.0, designed to enable the analysis of complex in vitro studies.

In August, Amplion introduced the Biomarker Engine for gathering, filtering and annotating biomarker information.

In September, GenoCAD launched a new version of its DNA design platform, with a new feature that can generate up to 20,000 sequence variants at a time.

RURO launched Sciency ELN 5, featuring a new user interface and improved editing engine.

ChemWare introduced HORIZON LIMS 12, featuring a new .NET-based interface.