Company Announcements

Accelrys appointed Michael A. Piraino, previously co-founder and CFO of MD Technology Partners, as senior vice president and CFO, and Paul J. Burrin, previously with Google, as chief marketing officer.

GeneGo is now selling Omicsoft’s Array Studio and Array Server globally, except Japan.

CLC bio recorded an over 130% increase in 2009 sales.

In February, CLC bio partnered with Isilon Systems to bundle their respective CLC Genomics Machine and Isilon IQ scale-out NQ platform.

Schrödinger acquired the PyMOL interactive visualization and presentation molecular modeling environment from the estate of Dr. Warren L. DeLano in January.

InfoQuant, a provider of DNA copy number analysis software, joined the BioIT Alliance in January.

DNASTAR, a provider of sequence analysis, data visualization and microarray software, joined the BioIT Alliance in January.

Golden Helix named Millennium Science as a distribution of its SNP & Variation Suite in Australia and New Zealand.

The Winvale Group, an information technology solutions provider, joined Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Informatics Global Partner Alliance and will provide Thermo informatics solutions under GSA Schedule 70.

Product Introductions

As a result of its collaboration with the FDA, Pharsight introduced the Phoenix NLME 1.0 data-processing and modeling software for population PK/PD and Phoenix Connect, which allows users to save all the work done with different tools under a single Phoenix project file.

CLC bio released the CLC Genomics Server 2.0, featuring RNA-sequencing analysis.

Symyx Technologies introduced Isentris Forms to offer a phased migration path to Isentris, and Isentris Data Miner to offer a low-cost, low-risk introduction to Isentris.

Symyx launched the no-fee, web-based Symyx JDraw Applet.

Rescentris launched a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering of its eCERF Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN).

Micronic released the Track-IT Sample Management System, which interfaces with most barcode readers and scanners, for tracking laboratory samples.

IDBS introduced the IDBS Biomarker Discovery and Validation Solution, which is a “biomarker ELN” based on the InforSense and E-WorkBook Suites.

BioDiscovery released Nexus Copy Number 5.0 for DNA copy number analysis and validation, featuring a cloud-based Nexus database.

In February, Promium announced the broad availability of a subscription service offering, provided through a SaaS implementation, for the Element DataSystem LIMS.