Informatics
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 diagnostics. Each company will market the combined solution.
Remedy Informatics received a $6 million investment from the Merck Global Health Innovation Fund.
BioData named Adam Sartiel, former Israel site manager for Life Technologies, CEO in November 2012.
Genedata integrated Life Technologies’ online store with its Genedata Expressionist for Genomic Profiling and Genedata Analysis software for users to purchase TaqMan PCR assays specific to their next-generation sequencing data.
Era7 Bioinformatics opened its first US office in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in November 2012.
In December 2012, KineMatik and Blaze Systems announced a strategic alliance and reseller agreement.
Agilent and SRI International signed a licensing agreement to offer research customers a package that combines Agilent’s GeneSpring Gx, GeneSpring NGS, Mass Profiler Professional and Pathway Architech 12.5 with SRI’s BioCyc Pathway Database Collection, a collection of 2,038 Pathway/Genome Databases.
Schrödinger announced in December 2012 the receipt of an additional $20 million from Bill Gates.
In January, Omicia appointed Mike Aicher CEO. Most recently, he led LabCorp’s Western Division.
Water Trax partnered with Accelerated Technology Laboratories to offer full interoperability.
Product Introductions
Effective November 1, 2012, all of ACD/Labs’ technique-specific Spectrus Workbooks are available.
Maverix Biomics released the Maverix Analytic Platform, which integrates the management, exploration and visualization of genomic data. It utilizes open source algorithms and applications and offers a pay-as-you-go pricing model.
In November 2012, IO Informatics, in cooperation with Sage-N Research, launched the Sentient Integrated Data Appliance for plug-and-play solutions for the integration, discovery and visualization of experimental data and information from public resources.
Chemical Computing Group released Molecular Operating Environment 2012.10, with new applications focused on protein engineering and biological tools.
RURO released version 4 of its LIMS 24/7, featuring a new File Repository home-screen section.