Company Announcements

In January, Elsevier acquired Aureus Sciences, which provides databases and software for drug discovery and development.

Qlucore announced in January an agency agreement with Novo Newton Scientific for Ireland, Spain, Italy and South Africa.

5AM partnered with LABVANTAGE Solutions to provide consulting and implementation services to LABVANTAGE, with an initial focus on biobanking.

NextBio announced a translational research partnership with Emory University, Winship Cancer Institute and the Aflac Cancer Center for interpreting molecular and genomic data from children with medulloblastoma with the goal of discovering predictive biomarkers.

GenoSplice Technology partnered with Curie-Cancer, the body responsible for developing Institut Curie’s industry partnership activities, for applications in cancer genomics.

Optibrium and Lhasa announced a technology collaboration agreement for toxicity prediction involving their respective StarDrop and Derek Nexus software platforms.

Certara named Kansas State University’s Institute of Computational Comparative Medicine as a Phoenix Center of Excellence. The partnership will focus on the use of the Phoenix PK/PD modeling and simulation platform to support studies in veterinary medicine.

CLC bio announced a 30% increase in both software sales and employees in 2012 and a more than 30% rise in new organizations as customers. The company now has over 100 employees and more than 2,000 total unique-organization customers.

Product Introductions

In January, Cresset relaunched its FieldScreen system as blazeV10 for ligand-based virtual screening.

Genedata introduced Genedata Biologics 3.0, an enterprise solution for integrated biologics R&D data management, featuring new standardization of antibody screening, protein engineering and protein production processes.

Dotmatics introduced Bioregister, a complete biologics registration system.

In February, Elsevier launched the Reaxys Medicinal Chemistry workflow solution for access to data to enhance the compound selection process.

Accelrys announced in February that the Reaxys chemistry workflow solution is now directly accessible through the Accelrys Electronic Lab Notebook.

Bina Technologies launched the Bina Genomic Analysis Platform, stating it can analyze a whole human genome in four hours or less. The linearly scalable end-to-end solution for variant analysis of sequenced DNA data is an on-premise and hybrid cloud solution available on a monthly subscription basis.