Company Announcements In September, Qlucore named Commmugene as a distributor for South Korea. Vista Equity Partners agreed in September to acquire TIBCO Software for $24 per share, or $4.3 billion including the assumption of net debt. The acquisition was completed this month. TIBCO provides Spotfire software, which is exclusively licensed to PerkinElmer (see IBO 12/15/13) […]
Waltham, MA 10/29/14—PerkinElmer has acquired Ceiba Solutions, a company that provides science- and lab-IT software and services and offers IT services and emerging software platforms. Financial details were not disclosed. PerkinElmer will integrate Ceiba’s capabilities into its OneSource services, which include Lab IT. “As customers seek solutions and business models to help drive more productive […]
The 64th annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genomics was held October 18–22 in San Diego, California. The event attracted 8,433 attendees, including 6,566 scientific attendees (nonexhibitors), a 3.1% decrease from the 2013 show, which was held in Boston, Massachusetts. Two hundred forty companies exhibited, compared with 235 last year. In a Tuesday […]
Company Announcements In June, John Wiley & Sons acquired SimBioSys, a provider of scientific-software tools that facilitate the drug-discovery process and a pioneer in the field of computer-aided retrosynthetic analysis. Cresset appointed CloudScientific as a Chinese distributor in July. Syapse raised $10 million in Series B financing, led by Safeguard Scientifics. Simulations Plus agreed in […]
An unfortunate consequence of the recent explosion in next-generation sequencing (NGS) activity is the huge amount of generated data that are unused or not used to their full potential. Analysis of sequence data can take orders of magnitude more time than producing it and, as a result, is unable to keep pace. The existence of […]
Company Announcements In April, IDBS integrated its ELN for life sciences with Neural ID’s Intelligent Waveform Solution for automated biosignal recognition and analysis. IDBS partnered with Rancho Biosciences in April, enabling the companies to provide mutual customers with manual data-curation services for IDBS’s E-WorkBook products in the translational and clinical-research arenas. Ayasdi announced in April […]
Newtown, PA 6/6/14—GGA Software Services, a supplier of scientific-informatics services, has been acquired by EPAM Systems, a publicly held provider of product-development and software-engineering solutions, for cash and $10 million in stock. “Not only are we very excited about the significant growth opportunity in the Life Sciences and Healthcare industry verticals, we also see tremendous […]
Company Announcements In the fourth quarter of 2013, PerkinElmer acquired Google Ventures–backed Wingu, a developer of a cloud-based platform for research collaboration. Cambridge Semantics integrated ChemAxon’s search and visualization capabilities into its Anzo software. IDBS and Osthus, a global systems integrator, announced a strategic partnership, which includes development of new integration modules for additional services, […]
At a time when large exhibitions seem to be declining in attendance and exhibitor participation, Analytica has clearly established itself as a “must-attend event” based on a proven formula for success. The trade fair took place May 10–13 in Munich, Germany. Held at an outstanding modern venue in the heart of Europe, well planned and […]
Atomic Spectrometry Bruker introduced its second generation S1 Titan handheld X-ray fluorescence (XRF) product line. In addition to a more ruggedized, weatherproof housing, the new versions include a detector shield as standard. Four models are available, with different sources and detectors. The high-end S1 Titan 800 has a variable voltage X-ray source and a silicon […]
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