Informatics

Company Announcements

BD Biosciences integrated Ingenuity’s Knowledge Base and Search and Pathway Navigation technologies into its new website.

Strand Life Sciences named François Mandeville executive vice president, Marketing, Technology and Strategy. He was previously with Agilent Technologies.

Biomatters and GenomeQuest integrated their respective Geneious Pro 4.8 and GenomeQuest 6.0Beta to offer a top-down discovery methodology for next-generation sequencing projects.

In September, GeneGo initiated a 24-month collaborative development project with pharmaceutical companies and academic centers to create a knowledge base on the development and biology of different types of stem cells.

Advanced Chemistry Development incorporated its German branch in September.

Symyx Technologies opened a software R&D center in Bangalore, India, in September through a partnership with Encora, a provider of collaborative product-development services.

Symyx joined the SAFE-BioPharma Association, a nonprofit organization that creates and manages the SAFE-BioPharma digital identity and signature standard for the pharmaceutical and heath care industries.

Tripos introduced a Benchware Pantheon Partner Program for software developers.

NextBio closed a $8 million Series C round of financing in September, which was led by Newbury Ventures.

RainDance Technologies and CLC bio partnered to develop software for the analysis of targeted resequencing data.

In October, BIOBASE and CLC bio partnered to integrate their respective TRANSFAC database and workbenches for release in spring 2010.

Geneva Bioinformatics and Integromics SC integrated their respective Phenyx software and OmicsHub Proteomics tool.

FarHawk Marketing Services will distribute SpectraWorks software products in North America.

Product Introductions

Zumatrix introduced the Neptune II, an enhanced configuration of Autoscribe’s Matrix Gemini LIMS for user access from a full Windows client or a web browser.

Illumina launched IlluminaCompute, a fully integrated computing solutions for its Genome Analyzer platform, that brings together Illumina software with blade servers from Dell’s OEM and Life Sciences Group and modular storage capacity from Isilon Systems.

Accelrys released Materials Studio 5.0, featuring a wider range of analytical instrument simulations.

Ariadne introduced Pathway Studio 7, Desktop Edition, featuring a regenerated ResNet Database

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