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.

In June, PerkinElmer became the sole worldwide distributor of Integromics software for the TIBCO Spotfire data visualization platform.

In July, Schrödinger and ChemAxon extended their partnership agreement for another five years and expanded it. ChemAxon will provide the JChem chemistry engine as well as Marvin sketching and rendering functionality to Schrödinger’s Seurat enterprise informatics platform.

Under a strategic partnership, Schrödinger enhanced its Enterprise Informatics offerings with DeltaSoft’s Chemcart and associated tool base.

In July, Ayasdi, whose Insight Discovery platform uses topological data analysis to analyze complex data sets, raised $30.6 million in Series B venture funding.

Product Introductions

Under a joint initiative, Schrödinger software will be integrated into BT’s BT for Life Sciences cloud platform.

In May, Accelrys launched the Accelrys Enterprise Platform 9.0, which has the capability to access large volumes of data across an enterprise, new features to enable externalized collaborations, and chemical structure perception.

Accelrys released in June the Accelrys Experiment Knowledge Base LIMS, featuring the ability to search and mine experimentation data from almost any source.

In June, SAP and the Technical University Munich introduced the free ProteomicsDB. Based on the SAP HANA platform, it is a protein-centric database and repository for MS-based proteomics data.

Kinexus Bioinformatics launched the open access DrugKiNET KnowledgeBase, which contains 105,000 experimentally tested protein kinase drug interactions and documents over 250,000 predicted protein kinase drug interactions.

The Pistoia Alliance released in June the HELM (Hierarchical Editing Language for Macromolecules) biomolecular representation standard software toolkit and editor under the permissive open source MIT license.

Genedata announced in June that its Genedata Biologics enterprise workflow system now also supports process and cell line development units.

PerkinElmer and Integromics introduced OmicsOffice 5.0, which allows users of TIBCO Spotfire to handle, process, analyze and visualize diverse genomics data.

RURO released Limfinity, the engine behind the company’s LIMS 24/7, as a stand-alone system.