Agilent Technologies Inc.today announced the winners of the 2011 eMerging Insights grant program: Dr. Michael J. MacCoss of the University of Washington and Dr. Peter J. Park of Harvard University. Each will be awarded $75,000 toward their ongoing research on open source data-integration tools. The first grant,for “Validating Protein Pathway Information: Integrating Proteomic Data with […]

VICTORIA, British Columbia–GenoLogics, a leading provider of laboratory information management system (LIMS) software specifically designed for next-generation genomics labs, today announced an $8 million round of strategic financing led by new investor Illumina, Inc., a global leader in next-generation sequencing (NGS) instruments. The financing will be used to accelerate product development for future clinical applications […]

WESTBOROUGH, Mass. — GenomeQuest Inc., a global provider of large-scale genomic software applications, today announced the appointment of three charter members to its clinical advisory board. The board will provide expert perspectives across science, medicine and technology related to the broad use of genomics in health care delivery by academic research centers, commercial and academic […]

WALTHAM, Mass.–PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on improving the health and safety of people and the environment, today announced several new hardware and software features for the Company’s flagship Opera® High Content Screening (HCS) System to enhance its live cell imaging and analysis capabilities. The enhancements to the Opera system will enable biopharmaceutical and […]

CAMBRIDGE, UK – Optibrium, a provider of software solutions for drug discovery, today launches StarDrop 5.1, an upgraded version of its innovative support tool which helps drug discovery scientists to guide key decisions in drug discovery and quickly achieve successful project outcomes. As a result of this upgrade, StarDrop’s unique capabilities to guide the design […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif.–New research presented this week highlights the ability of NextBio to help life scientists and clinicians investigate publicly available genomic data to assess biological mechanisms underlying drug toxicity, as well as discover prospective cancer biomarkers for further validation. The unique capabilities of NextBio to search and make discoveries, not possible by other methods, […]

Palo Alto, California — PREMIER Biosoft, as a part of its contract software development services, has delivered OligoArchitect™ Online v2.0 to Sigma Life Science, the innovative biological products and services research business of Sigma-Aldrich. Sigma-Aldrich, with operations in over 40 countries, is a life science and high technology company. Its chemical and biochemical products are […]

San Francisco, CA – Real Time Genomics, Inc., today announced the immediate availability of RTG Investigator v2.3 sequence analysis software featuring native support for the Ion Torrent semiconductor sequencing platform. With this release, Ion PGM™ users with whole genome, exome and metagenomics data can generate world class genomic analyses in minutes, using the most advanced […]

OpGen, Inc. announced today the launch of Genome-Builder, a high performance software module that provides new, powerful capabilities for precision sequence assembly and significantly decreases the time and labor required for human, animal and plant genome sequence assembly. OpGen presented initial studies using Genome-Builder this week with its collaborators at the Sanger Institute during a […]