Company Announcements Accelrys’ 2012 revenues grew 12.6% to $162.5 million. Adjusted operating profit fell 47.2% to $2.0 million. License and subscription, maintenance on perpetual license, and professional services and other revenues grew 12.6%, 9.7% and 68.9% to make up 55%, 24% and 14% of sales, respectively. However, content revenue fell 25.6% due to the phaseout […]
Hilden, Germany and Redwood City, CA 4/29/13—QIAGEN has acquired Ingenuity Systems for $105 million in cash, effective April 29. Ingenuity is a provider of software solutions for the analysis and interpretation of the biological meaning of genomics data, including Knowledge Base, an expert-curated database of genomic variations and disease models. Ingenuity had 2012 sales of […]
Atomic Spectroscopy Bruker’s N8 Horizon instrument was introduced in November 2012. The N8 has a brilliant microspot source with a 0.5 mm spot size, and a sample holder that can be configured for small-angle and grazing incidence XRD. The standard Vantec area detector can also be augmented by an optional linear detector to provide wide-angle […]
Company Announcements In January, Elsevier acquired Aureus Sciences, which provides databases and software for drug discovery and development. Qlucore announced in January an agency agreement with Novo Newton Scientific for Ireland, Spain, Italy and South Africa. 5AM partnered with LABVANTAGE Solutions to provide consulting and implementation services to LABVANTAGE, with an initial focus on biobanking. […]
Atomic Spectroscopy Bruker debuted the Aurora Elite inductively coupled plasma (ICP)–MS, a high-performance sibling to its existing Aurora M90. The improved ion optics and fast electronics increase the sensitivity of the system, and Bruker considers it the most sensitive single quadrupole ICP-MS on the market. The base price is $178,000, though a complete system with […]
Multi-vendor laboratory services have proved to be a fast growing and strategic market for analytical instrument companies. Such services not only expand a particular instrument company’s share of an end-user’s service revenues, but also provide greater customer intimacy and an expanded presence in the end-user’s lab. As a result, the breadth of such offerings has […]
Company Announcements Ingenuity Systems announced in November 2012 a long-term collaboration with LabCorp to license and deploy its clinical content and applications to rapidly review and annotate clinically relevant sequence variations. Cartagenia integrated Interactive Biosoftware’s Alamut gene visualization software into its BENCHlab platform, a web-based software and database platform that interprets genomic variation in routine […]
The life science instrumentation (LSI) market is the largest technology sector, accounting for about a quarter of the total analytical instruments industry. It encompasses a broad spectrum of technologies grouped into 13 categories. Unlike most other instrument markets, the LSI market is heavily reliant on the aftermarket. Consumables, reagents, kits and other aftermarket products make […]
Company Announcements Genedata and Insilico Biotechnology integrated their respective Genedata Selector and Insilico Discovery simulation software to create an end-to-end platform for industrial biotechnology research. In September, ChemAxon opened a new East Coast headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Ingenuity Systems partnered with Life Technologies in October to develop a joint solution for interpretation of molecular profiling […]
Company Announcements In June, STARLIMS acquired its Asia Pacific distributor, STARLIMS Australasia. Global Helix opened an office in Japan in June and selected Filgen as its exclusive distributor for the country. NextBio and the Cancer Care Institute formed a strategic partnership in June focused on the clinical use of genomics. Certara named the University of […]
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