Bio-Rad Announces the Exclusive Availability of Biogazelle’s qbase PLUS Data-Analysis Software with Bio-Rad’s CFX96 and CFX384 Real-Time PCR Systems The Combination Improves the Accuracy of qPCR Experiments HERCULES, CA – Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (NYSE: BIO and BIOb), a multinational manufacturer and distributor of life science research and clinical diagnostic products, today announced the exclusive availability […]

IlluminaCompute Offers Scalability, Turn-Key Operation and Extensive Customer Support for Research Organizations of All Sizes HANOVER, Germany–At the BioIT World Europe Conference, Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) announced the launch of IlluminaCompute, a fully integrated computing solution for its Genome Analyzer sequencing platform. Bringing together Illumina’s powerful sequencing software with high-performance blade servers from Dell’s OEM and […]

Not-for-Profit to Create an Open-Access Genomic Data Platform for Drug Discovery SEATTLE–Sage Bionetworks, a not-for-profit organization established to develop an open-access genomic platform for use in drug discovery, announced a major founding donation today from Quintiles, the only fully integrated biopharmaceutical services company offering clinical, commercial, consulting and capital solutions worldwide. The Quintiles donation is […]

The Queensland Facility for Advanced Bioinformatics Selects IPA in Multi-Year Deal for Systems Biology Effort REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Ingenuity Systems, the leading provider of information solutions for life science researchers, and Millennium Science, Ingenuity Systems’ exclusive distributor for Australia and New Zealand, today announced a multi-year deal for Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA) with the […]

Screener’s High Throughput Screening Capabilities Yield High-quality Data for the Broad Institute’s NIH-funded Molecular Libraries and Imaging Initiative Lexington, Massachusetts (USA) and Basel, Switzerland — Genedata, a leading provider of in silico solutions for pharmaceutical R&D and related life sciences, today announced the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT has adopted Genedata Screener® for small-molecule […]

BIOTECHNICA 2009 HANNOVER, Germany — Today at the Biotechnica / Bio-IT World Europe conference in Hannover, Germany, BIOBASE and CLC bio announced a partnership to integrate BIOBASE’s comprehensive TRANSFAC® database with CLC bio’s popular workbenches and award-winning server solution. This partnership will provide researchers working with Next Generation Sequencing data with instant access to experimentally […]

BRI Pharmaceutical Research Inc. to Standardize on Thermo Scientific Watson LIMS PHILADELPHIA – Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that BRI Biopharmaceutical Research Inc., a leading bioanalytical and DM/PK/ADME contract research organization, has selected Thermo Scientific Watson LIMS (laboratory information management system) to help manage the bioanalytical and analytical […]

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — STARLIMS Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq:LIMS – News), a leading provider of laboratory information management systems, or LIMS, today announced that its web-based LIMS and Scientific Data Management System (SDMS) were selected by a government law enforcement agency in the Pacific Rim, in an agreement totaling $1.2 million for licenses and first-year maintenance. One […]

First to publish using company’s new research tool to net $10,000 grant MEMPHIS, Tenn.– Memphis-based Computable Genomix today announced it will launch a contest on Oct. 1, 2009, to coincide with the release of GeneIndexer, the company’s next-generation Web-based text-mining tool. Publish or Perish will award a $10,000 grant to each of the first three […]