Company Announcements Surety integrated in April its AbsoluteProof data integrity service with KineMatik’s electronic lab notebook. In April, Real Time Genomics appointed Steve Lombardi, former president and CEO of Helicos BioSciences, president and CEO. IDBS added ChemAxon’s Reactor engine parallel-synthesis add-on to its ChemBook electronic lab notebook. IDBS partnered with Thomson Reuters’ Intellectual Property & […]
LIMS (laboratory information management systems) lie at the heart of many laboratories’ informatics systems. Strategic Directions International’s (SDi’s) April report entitled “2012 Lab Informatics Survey of End-Users” is based on a survey of LIMS end-users and provides insight into important topics for LIMS vendors, including the use of LIMS with other software systems, how and […]
Last month, PerkinElmer unveiled its Ensemble for Chemistry, one of four Ensemble suites. Ensemble for Chemistry is an electronic laboratory notebook (ELN)-based suite of applications for planning and logging experiments. End-users can input, store and analyze data. “There’s a real productivity gain because [end-users] can clone previous experiments and repeat them or change them slightly,” […]
Atomic Spectroscopy Elvatech introduced the ElvaX Mobile portable X-ray fluorescence (XRF) instrument. It is controlled by a PDA and is currently shipping. PG Instruments released a new version of its most recent atomic absorption system, the AA500, which was released in mid-2011. The new version includes an embedded PC. The AA flame can run on […]
Atomic Spectroscopy LECO introduced new configurations for its latest generation of inorganic and organic elemental analysis systems. Late last year, sulfur and oxygen analyzers were released for the CHN628 analyzer. Each option has a price of about $8,000 to $10,000. In May, a sulfur option will become available for the TruMac series at an additional […]
Company Announcements In January, Battelle announced a strategic investment in CosmosID, which is a metagenomics software company focused on environmental biosurveillance and microbial identification. CLC bio announced that software sales increased 30% in 2011, and operating profit grew more than 50% to over $1 million. A total of 1,500 organizations own licenses to its software, […]
Company Announcements DNAnexus secured $15 million in October 2011 in second round funding led by Google Ventures and TPG Biotech. The company also entered into a technology collaboration with Google to provide an archive of publicly available DNA data through a Sequence Read Archive site hosted by Google Cloud Storage. Elsevier and PerkinElmer in November […]
The life science instrumentation (LSI) market encompasses a broad spectrum of technologies grouped into a dozen categories. LSI technologies range from mature, multibillion dollar markets to high-growth, burgeoning technology segments. Overall, the LSI market is the largest technology sector in the analytical instrument market, accounting for about a quarter of total sales. The LSI market […]
Company Announcements Certara announced in October that it will be the exclusive provider of Chemotargets’ software for predicting the off-target pharmacology of small molecules through the creation of customized ligand-based target models. In October, Accelrys agreed to market and sell SCYNEXIS’s Hit Explorer Operating System, a software-as-a-service workspace that supports real-time data sharing across multiple […]
Company Announcements In July, DNASTAR began direct sales, marketing and technical support in Europe. 5AM Solutions opened an office in Boston, Massachusetts, this summer. In August, PREMIER Biosoft acquired Redasoft, which provides the Visual Cloning sequence analysis software. Aridhia Informatics and Glencoe Software formed a strategic partnership in September to create software for life science […]
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