Chelmsford, MA 8/22/17; Frederick, MD 8/24/17—Brooks Life Sciences, a provider of sample lifecycle management solutions for bioscience, has acquired certain assets from software provider RURO, including the FreezerPro web-based software. Financial details were not provided. Brooks Life Sciences has also entered into an exclusive license agreement to sell RURO’s BioBankPro software, which integrates the functionality of FreezerPro with external data sources and instruments. “These biorepository software tools are a natural fit into our life sciences portfolio as informatics integrates our services, consumables and infrastructure products by capturing comprehensive sample management information for customers globally,” stated Brooks Life Sciences President Dusty Tenney.

A company with 40 employees and approximately 800 customers, RURO supplies software for the management of biorespository samples. “What’s next for RURO? LimitLIS, RURO’s Laboratory Information System (LIS), continues to grow its market share, especially among laboratories in the field of toxicology,” said RURO CRO Vlad Lebedev. “Combined with our ISO 9001–certified deployment service for Limfinity enterprise laboratory software solutions and our suite of validation and compliance services, RURO is poised to spring up everywhere.”

Brooks Life Sciences’ software offerings currently include the ISIDOR (Integrated Sample Intelligence Data Online Repository) BioStudies platform for biobank data management and integration. This acquisition further adds the company’s offerings for biobanks. In the company’s fiscal third quarter conference call in August, Brooks Automation President and CEO Steven Schwartz noted the Life Sciences Systems segment’s interest in informatics acquisitions, which have a favorable margin.