MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — DNAnexus Inc., the leader in cloud-based genome informatics and data management, today announced that POLARIS (Personalized OMIC Lattice for Advanced Research and Improving Stratification), is now using DNAnexus to enable a series of genomic tests. The production-scale clinical applications will be used by the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS). POLARIS was […]

Toronto, CANADA — ACD/Labs, a Toronto-based chemistry software company, today announced that for the past three years professor Raphael Terreux of the University of Lyon has relied on the ACD/Percepta Platform for a collaborative research project investigating new, environmentally friendly high energy materials. Since leveraging the full suite of ACD/Percepta toxicity and ADME predictors, professor […]

Qlucore, a world leader in the development of bioinformatics software, has today unveiled Qlucore Omics Explorer 3.2, the latest version of its advanced data analysis software. Researchers will be able to undertake deeper data exploration and biomarker discovery using the additional functionalities in version 3.2 for clustering and classification. Clustering is used to find subgroups […]

New York, NY – Schrödinger, Inc. announced that it has entered into a research collaboration agreement with Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE), in which the two companies will work together to develop a computational model for predicting key properties relevant to biotherapeutic candidates. In this collaboration, each company will perform tasks in an attempt to develop […]

NESS ZIONA, Israel — NRGene has signed a co-marketing agreement with Illumina to promote NRGene’s proprietary de novo assembly informatics solution exclusively using Illumina sequencing technology. Under this agreement, Illumina’s global sales channel will promote NRGene’s DeNovoMAGICTM assembly technology. Together, Illumina’s sequencing technology and NRGene’s DeNovoMAGIC deliver the most practical, rapid, and cost-effective solution for […]

PierianDx, the leading provider of genomic software and services to enable data-driven personalized medicine, announced that it closed $9.25 million in Series A financing led by New York-based Health Catalyst Capital Management (HCCM). Joining HCCM in the investment round is a venture investing affiliate of Ocean Road Advisors, Inova Translational Medicine Institute (ITMI), and ARUP […]

Bethesda, Maryland, USA – The International Wheat Genome Sequencing Consortium (IWGSC) has announced the production of a whole genome assembly of bread wheat. Based on Illumina short sequence reads assembled with NRGene’s DeNovoMAGICTM software, the project goal was to produce a whole genome assembly of the bread wheat variety Chinese Spring. The most widely grown […]

Newark, Delaware – B&W Tek, an advanced instrumentation company that delivers lab quality Raman spectroscopy solutions through user-friendly mobile platforms is proud to announce the release of the TOS 4.0 software update for their award-winning TacticID® handheld spectrometer. The TacticID system has the industry’s largest on-board library of narcotics, pharmaceutical pills and cutting agents along […]

bioMérieux, a world leader in the field of in vitro diagnostics, today announced the acquisition of Applied Maths, a company that develops state-of-the-art software solutions for the biosciences, in particular for databasing, analysis and interpretation of complex biological data. Since it was founded in 1992, the company has gained worldwide recognition by leveraging its strong […]

Oxford, UK: Genomics plc (“Genomics”), a leading analysis company developing algorithms, data resources, and software solutions to uncover the relationships between genetic variation and human disease, today announced that Vertex Pharmaceuticals will use Genomics’ integrated database and state-of-the-art analysis tools to inform its drug research and development. These tools aim to provide confidence in the […]