Founded in 2001, the Canadian firm GenoLogics is based in Victoria, British Columbia, and develops laboratory information management systems (LIMS). The company’s first product was a LIMS for proteomics that grew out of a collaboration with the University of Victoria Genome BC Proteomics Center. As Tanis McSween, manager of marketing communications, explained, these collaborations gave […]

Spartacus Consulting introduced LabPortico ASP and Enterprise, online customer service tools for laboratories. Labtronics released Nexxis ILAB for the collection of information from lab informatics systems and instruments. Labtronics introduced LimsLink CDS 4.0. In May, Agilent released OL ECM Workgroup, an enterprise content management software package designed for smaller labs. Pricing begins at $21,000. Accelerated […]

IO Informatics appointed Robert Stanley, cofounder and CTO, president and CEO in April. VelQuest integrated its GMP Electronic Notebook System, designed for QA/QC applications, with Symyx Technologies’ electronic lab notebook applications, which are designed for R&D. Thermo Fisher Scientific granted Sage-N Research a sublicense to sell the SEQUEST search engine products. Agilent integrated EMC’s NetWorker […]

Bio-Rad Laboratories released KnowItAll Enterprise Server 3.0 and the KnowItAll AnyWare 1.0 browser-based client. Bio-Rad launched KnowItAll U for academic research and teaching. Sapio Sciences introduced Exemplar LIMS, addressing the complete pipeline from sample receipt in the lab through clinical trial management. Labtronics released Nexxis CLA (Instrument Calibration Manager) 4.0. Strand Life Sciences released Sarchitect, […]

Core Informatics integrated ChemAxon’s chemoinformatics capabilities within its Core LIMS. Ariadne announced that GeneWorks will distribute its products in Australia and New Zealand. Validation company VALcoa entered into separate partnerships with Thermo Informatics and Labtronics. Thermo Fisher Scientific partnered with Integrador de Soluciones Tecnológicas to open a sales center for informatics solutions in Columbia and […]

Consulting firm Taratec introduced Intelligent Solutions-LAB, a family of services designed to improve laboratory performance and productivity. It includes Operations Intelligence-LAB, Workflow Intelligence-LAB and Technology Intelligence-LAB. Thermo Scientific Asset Management Services appointed a specialized European team and launched a tailored service solutions with a focus on the UK, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands and […]

Hollywood, FL 5/23/07; Washington, DC 5/23/07—In a busy week for initial public offerings (IPOs) of laboratory product companies (see below), STARLIMS completed its IPO of common stock on the NASDAQ Global Market on May 23, raising an estimated $25.5 million in net proceeds (see IBO 5/15/07). The offering consisted of 2.1 million ordinary shares priced […]

In March, Rosetta Biosoftware introduced version 7.0 of the Rosetta Resolver gene expression data analysis system. Genedata AG released ToxPedia, based on the Expressionist platform, for the adoption of systems toxicology for drug safety prediction. BioImagene introduced the 3i web-based platform for developing imaging applications for digital pathology and drug discovery, featuring three modules of […]

KBC Private Equity acquired a 75% stake in bioinformatics company Applied Maths NV in 2006. SAS and Ingenuity Systems integrated their respective JMP Genomics and Pathways Analysis solutions. Ingenuity Systems partnered with Compendia Bioscience, a provider of cancer profiling data and analysis tools, to integrate their respective Oncomine Professional and Pathways Analysis solutions. Thermo Fisher […]