Company Announcements

In July, DNASTAR began direct sales, marketing and technical support in Europe.

5AM Solutions opened an office in Boston, Massachusetts, this summer.

In August, PREMIER Biosoft acquired Redasoft, which provides the Visual Cloning sequence analysis software.

Aridhia Informatics and Glencoe Software formed a strategic partnership in September to create software for life science and clinical informatics, including personalized medicine. Aridhia will make a major investment in Glencoe Software.

In September, BioData, a provider of research management software, acquired the assets of LabLife Software, which develops lab management and sequence analysis software for academic labs.

Eagle Genomics named David Flanders CEO in September. Former CEO Abel Ureta-Vidal was named COO.

Product Introductions

DNASTAR released Lasergene 9, which brings together its software components into an integrated package and includes the ArrayStar microarray analysis software.

In July, Accelrys announced the deployment of ACD Labs’ analytical component collection on its Pipeline Pilot enterprise R&D platform. The analytical component collection enables the import, processing, handling and interpretation of analytical data.

In July, Thermo Fisher Scientific introduced the Thermo Scientific Clinical LIMS for clinical and molecular diagnostics and related research. It supports the information flow following a patient from point of care to molecular testing and results analysis, diagnosis and treatment.

The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics and GeneBio launched in August neXtProt, a comprehensive resource on human proteins, including information on function, subcellular location, expression and interactions.

Biomax Informatics released the BioXM Knowledge Management Environment 4.0, which integrates information from different data sources to build semantic networks.

In August, Accelrys launched an Academic Program, which offers affordable, exclusively academic software packages that allow researchers to publish Web applications developed with its software for external use by academic partners and collaborators.

Oracle released in September the Oracle Health Sciences Translational Research Center, a platform to facilitate the secondary use of health care data for clinical and research organizations. The initial release focuses on the aggregation, normalization and analysis of clinical information.

CLC bio and BIOBASE launched the Genomics Gateway database, a plug-in that integrates human-curated biological databases contained in BIOBASE’s Genome Trax database.