Company Announcements Cresset created the Versaphor desktop-applications division to supply tools based on its Fields (the 3D surface and electrostatic properties of molecules) technology to medicinal chemists, patent teams and others. CAMO Software opened an office in Yokohama, Japan, in March. Ingenuity Systems named Molecule Scientific its exclusive distributor for Taiwan, and Biodiagnostics a distributor […]

Company Announcements Accelrys appointed Michael A. Piraino, previously co-founder and CFO of MD Technology Partners, as senior vice president and CFO, and Paul J. Burrin, previously with Google, as chief marketing officer. GeneGo is now selling Omicsoft’s Array Studio and Array Server globally, except Japan. CLC bio recorded an over 130% increase in 2009 sales. […]

Atomic Spectroscopy Bruker introduced the Q2 ION at its Pittcon press conference. The Q2 ION is a compact benchtop arc-spark spectrometer. It is a cost-effective complement to handheld XRF for metals analysis at smaller foundries and recycling centers. The system is now available at a price of roughly $35,000. Following the success of its Terra […]

Company Announcements GenoLogics and CLC bio announced they will provide an end-to-end informatics and analysis solution for next-generation sequencing. Analyse-it Software entered into a joint-venture partnership with the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute to develop best practice standards and guidelines for medical labs using its statistical software. CLC bio named Filgen as its Japanese reseller. […]

Software as a Service (SaaS) is an on-demand software model, which allows users to subscribe to and access a variety of software applications via the Internet, instead of a physical on-site installation. In the case of Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), users can configure the LIMS and access data through a web browser. The LIMS […]

Company Announcements BD Biosciences integrated Ingenuity’s Knowledge Base and Search and Pathway Navigation technologies into its new website. Strand Life Sciences named François Mandeville executive vice president, Marketing, Technology and Strategy. He was previously with Agilent Technologies. Biomatters and GenomeQuest integrated their respective Geneious Pro 4.8 and GenomeQuest 6.0Beta to offer a top-down discovery methodology […]

Company Announcements Microsoft announced that it is no longer selling Rosetta Biosoftware’s Rosetta Resolver, Syllego and Elucidator software (see IBO 6/15/09). These products’ capabilities will be integrated into its Amalga Life Sciences platform. Microsoft named Les Jordan, technology strategist for the Life Sciences Industry Unit, director of the BioIT Alliance in June. The formation of […]

Company Announcements GeneGo and OmicSoft integrated their respective MetaCore pathway analysis platform and Array Studio. Accelrys’s fiscal 2009 revenues for the year ended March 31 rose 1.6% to $81.0 million. Operating loss decreased from $855,000 in the previous year to $319,000 (see IBO 6/15/09). US sales rose 0.5%, European sales fell 1.6% and Asia-Pacific sales […]

Company Announcements In March, Real Time Genomics, a US subsidiary of NetValue, received a $3 million investment from Catamount Ventures. Real Time Genomics provides the SLIM Search sequence-comparison technology for genomic mapping and alignment functions that are tolerant of mismatches. Systat Software and Rescentris agreed to globally offer their joint product, the SigmaCERF electronic lab […]

Company Announcements STARLIMS Technologies’ 2008 sales rose 6.2% to $25.2 million (see IBO 3/31/09). Product revenue grew 11.3% to $15.5 million, and Service revenue declined 1.1% to $9.8 million. Adjusted operating income fell 30.2% to $3.0 million. Sales to public-sector labs accounted for 39% of revenues, manufacturing customers accounted for 25% of sales. Revenue from […]