Company Announcements

GenoLogics and CLC bio announced they will provide an end-to-end informatics and analysis solution for next-generation sequencing.

Analyse-it Software entered into a joint-venture partnership with the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute to develop best practice standards and guidelines for medical labs using its statistical software.

CLC bio named Filgen as its Japanese reseller.

Dotmatics entered into a strategic relationship with Infocom for the Japanese market.

IDBS opened new centers in China and Australia in 2009 for direct support, training and sales resources.

Aditi Technologies, a provider of software product and application development services, announced a strategic partnership with the Microsoft BioIT Alliance.

Symyx Technologies partnered with the Royal Society of Chemistry to link their respective Discovery Gate content platform and ChemSpider database.

Oasis Infotech partnered with Maventic Innovative Solutions to integrate its LIMS with SAP ERP systems.

Product Introductions

Tripos introduced Benchware Discovery 360 5.0, which adds full featured forms-based querying and browsing and a data access dashboard.

Tripos launched the latest version of SYBYL-X Discovery Software for computational chemistry and modeling, which is now available for Windows and Linux.

LabVantage released Service Pack 7 for the SQL*LIMS product platform.

Ingenuity Software developed a new gene expression workflow with Life Technologies for its IPA software and Life’s SOLiD System and TaqMan Gene Expression Assay and Arrays.

Thermo Fisher Scientific and Symyx Technologies announced the integration of the Thermo Scientific Watson LIMS with Symyx Notebook.

Pharsight launched Phoenix NLME (nonlinear mixed effects) for population pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic analysis. It advances model-based drug development by providing an integrated environment for data analysis, modeling and simulation.

Cambridge Research & Instrumentation introduced inform advanced image analysis software, which detects and quantifies tissue structures and protein markers within individual cells.

Ocimum Biosolutions launched Biotracker Lite for small- to medium-size labs.

Chemical Computing Group released Molecular Operating Environment (MOE) 2009.10, featuring the SOAP server for integrating MOE into pipeline workflows.

RURO introduced the web-based Sciency electronic lab notebook.