Company Announcements

IDBS entered into a strategic partnership with Soluzioni Informatiche for distribution of its E-Workbook Suite in Italy.

TIBCO Software partnered with IDBS to integrate their respective Spotfire Analytics Platform and ActivityBase chemistry technology for exploring the extended effects of chemical structures on biological activity.

Bio-IT World reported in April that Microsoft spun off its BioIT Alliance as a standards-development organization.

Cresset named Dr. Rob Scoffin CEO in April. He was formerly vice president of European Operations at CambridgeSoft.

IDBS reported that 2009 revenues grew 26.1% to £23 million ($36 million).

Schrödinger announced in April a $10 million equity investment from Cascade Investment, which is owned by Bill Gates.

Accelrys’s fiscal 2010 revenues for the year ending March 31 increased 2.4% to $83.0 million (see IBO 5/31/10). US sales fell 2.3% to make up 46% of revenues. European and Asia-Pacific sales grew 9.9% and 3.4% to represent 30% and 24% of revenues, respectively.

Product Introductions

NextBio released the Sequence-Centric module for the integration and mining of next-generation sequencing data from transcriptomic, copy number, epigenetic and resequencing studies.

DNAnexus launched a web-based service for analyzing, visualizing and managing next-generation DNA sequencing data.

GenomeQuest introduced the GQ-PMR genomic reference system for sequence data management, including the aggregation, normalization and hosting of raw data.

Labtronics released Nexxis iLAB 5.0, which integrates electronic lab notebooks, scientific data management systems and instrument platforms.

CAMO Software AS launched the Unscrambler X, its multivariate-data-analysis and design-of-experiments software, which is now focused on a wider range of applications and domains, including the on-line analysis.

Accelrys introduced Pipeline Pilot 8.0, featuring an expanded set of scientific protocol collections and enhanced rapid application development and deployment.

CLC bio announced in May a 50% price reduction for academic customers for its protein sequence–analysis software packages.

OpenEye Scientific Software released AFITT 2.0 software for crystallographers, featuring a completely automated wizard.

In May, Sapio Sciences released its Exemplar LIMS 4.0, featuring a fully extendible data model.