PHILADELPHIA — Mohammad Abdullah Al Azzaz Company Limited (MAAZ) has implemented Thermo Scientific SampleManager LIMS, the leading Informatics solution for process industries worldwide, to enhance the services offered through the company’s contract testing laboratories. MAAZ, an ISO 17025:2005-approved laboratory by IAS U.S.A., is a strategic partner to key contractors in the Middle East focused on […]

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the addition of an important new feature to its Genomic DNA ScreenTape assay—the DNA Integrity Number, or DIN, for assessing the integrity of genomic DNA. The new feature is designed to ensure the quality of genomics experiments, especially next-generation sequencing (NGS). It builds on […]

Bishops Stortford, UK. — Dotmatics, the leading provider of scientific informatics solutions and services, announced today that Rob Brown, PhD, from BIOVIA, Dassault Systèmes (formerly Accelrys) has joined Dotmatics in a newly created position of Vice President of Global Informatics, reporting to Dotmatics’ Global Head of Commercial Operations, Richard Lingard. Rob is a trusted member […]

PROVO, Utah — Tute Genomics, already a standard bearer in the clinical genomics industry, has added even more valuable experience and proven leadership to its team with the naming of Andrew Olson as vice president of sales. “Tute Genomics is uniquely positioned to lead the revolution in genome­-guided precision medicine,” said Olson. “With the most […]

Calif.– Bina Technologies, Inc. (Bina, Redwood City, CA, USA) announced today that they have been acquired by Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY). Bina Technologies1,2 is a privately held company that provides a big data platform for centralized management and processing of next generation sequencing (NGS) data for the academic and translational research markets. Bina […]

ALAMEDA, Calif.– LifeMap Sciences, Inc., a subsidiary of BioTime, Inc., announced today the release of MalaCards, Version 1.07. The new release is available at https://www.malacards.org/. MalaCards is a database of human diseases and their annotations that is modeled on the architecture and richness of the popular GeneCards® database of human genes (https://www.genecards.org/). The database consolidates […]

Eagle Genomics (Eagle), a bioinformatics–based company creating new opportunities with large-scale genomics data and data generation technologies for application to real world problems in healthcare, consumer goods, and the environment, announced today a signed 4-year agreement with Procter & Gamble (P&G) to fully deploy Eagle’s bioinformatics software platform, eaglecore. eaglecore improves bioinformatics research to help […]

Oslo, Norway –- CAMO Software today announced the launch of Service Pack 2014 for their all-in-one Multivariate Data Analysis (MVA) and Design of Experiments (DoE) software, The Unscrambler® X. The Unscrambler® X is used by engineers, scientists, researchers and data analysts across R&D, Quality Control and Production departments in a range of industrial sectors as […]

Provo, Utah -— Tute Genomics, a leader in cloud-based solutions for genome analysis, has raised $2.3 million in Series A1 funding led by UK-based Eurovestech. Peak Ventures and a number of angel investors also participated in the investment round. “We are at a pivotal time in genomics as the healthcare community adopts next-generation sequencing and […]

Belfast — Andor Technology, an Oxford Instruments company and world leaders in scientific imaging and spectroscopy solutions, is proud to announce the release of Komet 7 and Komet 7-GLP, our latest versions of the original Komet software first released in 1992 by Kinetic Imaging. Andor’s Komet software has been the recognized leader in the field […]