Tripos International, the leading provider of drug discovery informatics products and services, today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Pharsight Corporation, a leader in software, strategic and regulatory services designed to optimize clinical drug development. The transaction, valued at approximately $57 million, moves Pharsight into the Tripos portfolio. In making the announcement, Tripos’ […]

The MathWorks today announced its lead sponsorship of the International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) 2008 student competition, held annually by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). This year the competition brought together 84 undergraduate teams representing more than 1,000 students from 21 countries across Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the U.S. to design and assemble […]

Guildford, UK, 30 October 2008 – Global informatics provider IDBS today announced that BioFocus DPI (Cambridge, UK) has selected BioBook to handle all of its ADME data management needs. BioFocus DPI is the service division of Galapagos (Euronext: GLPG) and offers clients a comprehensive suite of target-to-drug discovery products and services. BioFocus DPI required an […]

SAN DIEGO–Accelrys, Inc. (NASDAQ: ACCL – News), a leading provider of scientific business intelligence software and services, today announced that it has entered into a re-seller agreement with CADFEM, an engineering solutions provider for computer aided engineering based in Germany, to deliver modeling and simulation software solutions to CADFEM customers in Europe. Under the terms […]

Tripos’ Widely Installed Discovery Research Software, SYBYL, is Now Available to an Even Broader Spectrum of Molecular Modeling Scientists Globally ST. LOUIS–Tripos International, leading provider of drug discovery informatics products and services, today announced the release of its popular SYBYL software for Mac OS X Leopard. SYBYL, a suite of computational chemistry and molecular modeling […]

Geneva, Switzerland and Odense, Denmark – October 28, 2008 – Geneva Bioinformatics (GeneBio) SA and Proxeon today announced an integration and distribution agreement focused on GeneBio’s Phenyx protein identification platform and Proxeon’s ProteinCenterTM data interpretation software. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Under the terms of the agreement, GeneBio’s Phenyx will be integrated […]

Guildford, UK, 24 October 2008 – IDBS, an industry-leading provider of enterprise data management solutions, announced that the prestigious Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology (Berlin, Germany) has expanded its usage of E-WorkBook by trebling its number of E-WorkBook licenses. Extending the use of E-WorkBook to include pure biology as well as molecular biology, the […]

Guelph, Ontario (October 21, 2008) – Labtronics Inc., a world leader in laboratory data integration and management solutions is pleased to announce the release of Nexxis SDK, a Software Developers Kit that supports integration of 3rd party applications with Nexxis ELN (Electronic Laboratory Notebook for Routine Analyses). Nexxis SDK provides programmatic access to Nexxis ELN, […]

Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ:ILMN) today introduced GenomeStudio Software, a primary analysis software program designed to analyze both microarray and sequencing data. For researchers, GenomeStudio Software enables the correlation of biological variation across multiple applications and graphical display of the results. The flexibility of GenomeStudio Software also allows researchers to integrate with third-party software providers for advanced […]

Phase Forward (NASDAQ: PFWD), a leading provider of data management solutions for clinical trials and drug safety, today announced that SGS Life Science Services, a leading contract research organization (CRO), has successfully developed multiple Phase I trials across various therapeutic areas using Phase Forward’s Central Designer tool. The Central Designer technology provides one central and […]