Pittcon returned to Chicago, Illinois, this year, from March 2 to 6, marking its first trip back to the city since 2009. The conference received a chilly reception, as temperatures dipped below 10° F (-12° C). The weather may have affected day visitors, as the total number of attendees fell 17.0% to 15,104 (according to […]
Company Announcements Rancho BioSciences partnered with OmicSoft in September 2013 for manual data curation. Goinformatics and TeselaGen announced a strategic partnership to integrate their respective GoLIMS platform, and computer-aided design and manufacturing platform for prototyping biomolecules in a cloud-based platform. Core Informatics opened a London, England, office in December 2013. Chemical Abstracts Service and PerkinElmer […]
Atomic Spectroscopy SciAps revealed its handheld laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) instrument, which is available in two models, the Z 500 and the Z 100. The system is comparable to handheld XRF for heavier elements, but LIBS can also detect lighter elements that are difficult or impossible for XRF to detect. The laser is an […]
Milwaukee, WI 1/3/14—ChemWare, a provider of information management systems to lab markets, has been acquired by Dohmen, an outsourced services company for health care. In addition to ChemWare, Dohmen also announced the acquisitions of Red Arrow Labs and Clinical Path Consulting. “Our life science and healthcare clients are increasingly interested in using technology to connect […]
Company Announcements Accelrys elected Heidi Melin, chief marketing officer at Plex Systems, to its Board in July. ChemAxon agreed to distribute Patcore’s CRAIS products globally excluding Japan. Certara partnered in September with the Critical Path Institute to develop a physiologically based pharmacokinetic model of the human lung built in conjunction with its Simcyp Population–based Simulator. […]
San Diego, CA 12/9/13—Accelrys, a provider of scientific innovation lifecycle management (SILM) solutions, has acquired QUMAS for $50 million in cash. QUMAS is a supplier of compliance software supporting regulatory and quality operations in life sciences and other highly regulated industries. QUMAS offers an electronic document management application with related R&D submission and quality analysis […]
Conshohocken, PA 11/22/13; London, UK 11/22/13—Instem, a publicly held supplier of IT solutions to the early development health care market, has acquired Perceptive Instruments for £1.0 million ($1.6 million = £0.62 = $1). Perceptive develops, manufactures and supplies image analysis and data processing solutions primarily focused on toxicology, microbiology and immunology. The UK-based firm had […]
San Diego, CA 9/3/13—Lab informatics firm Accelrys has acquired ChemSW, a provider of compliance solutions for environmental health and safety, including automated chemical inventory management, for $15.3 million in cash. The acquisition is expected to be modestly accretive to Accelrys’s non-GAAP EPS for 2013 and contribute $1–$2 million in non-GAAP revenues this year. ChemSW employees, […]
Company Announcements Ingenuity Systems, a QIAGEN firm, and Affymetrix announced in April they will copromote the Ingenuity iReport with Affymetrix expression microarray products. Real Time Genomics and the J. Craig Venter Institute announced in May a long term strategic collaboration to understand de novo mutations for stem cell progression studies and to deliver validated datasets. […]
Milford, MA 8/7/13—Waters has acquired Nonlinear Dynamics, a UK-based provider of proteomics and metabolomics analysis software, including Progenesis software for analyzing and visualizing raw proteomic data, for an undisclosed amount. “The opportunity to combine Nonlinear Dynamics informatics expertise with Waters worldwide leadership in chromatography and mass spectrometry will continue to create significant benefits for omics-focused […]
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