Company Announcements

DNAnexus announced in February strategic alliances with Geisinger Health Systems and the University of California San Francisco for the development of clinically relevant workflows for DNA sequencing.

Biomatters promoted Managing Director Dr. Brett Ammundsen to CEO in March.

Cartagenia opened its first North American office in Boston, Massachusetts, in March.

Partek announced in March a partnership to offer its customers a streamlined selection of Life Technologies’ TaqMan assays directly from its software user interface.

In March, Qlucore named Filgen as a Japanese distributor.

Knome was selected as a partner in the Illumina Genome Network.

In April, Knome named Jay Therrien, PhD, senior vice president of Global Sales. Most recently, he was vice president, Commercial Operations, Sequencing, at Life Technologies.

Under an April agreement, authors submitting articles to selected BioMed Central journals will be provided with complimentary subscriptions to an enhanced version of LabArchives’ electronic laboratory notebook software.

In April, Todd Johnson, Accelrys’s executive vice president of Marketing, Corporate Development and Strategy, resigned.

Product Introductions

Biomax Informatics launched in February the PEDANT Cloud Service for online sequence analysis.

In March, PREMIER Biosoft released the Beacon Designer 8.0 oligo design tool, with the ability to design primers across exon-exon and exon-intron junctions.

Cartagenia introduced in March the BENCH lab next-generation sequencing (NGS) solution for clinical data.

In March, Agilent released GeneSpring 12.0 for the analysis of NGS data and joint analysis at the pathway level across multiple “omics” platforms.

AJ Blomesystem, an Analytik Jena company, released readyLIMS, featuring a range of configuration options.

In April, CLC bio announced that the features of its DNA Workbench, RNA Workbench and Protein Workbench packages are now incorporated into the CLC Main Workbench for traditional sequence analysis and visualization. For network licenses, the new prices are $3,999 and $799 for industry and academia, respectively.

Media Cybernetics introduced the Image-Pro Premier processing and analysis software package, featuring support for multiresolution files.

In April, Simulations Plus released ADMET Predictor 6.0, featuring the new MedChem Designer molecular-drawing tool and additional predictive models for metabolism and toxicity.