Company Announcements

Labsis Laborsysteme, a provider of rack/microplate-based data reduction and data management software, announced in January the acquisition of Mikrotek Laborsysteme, which supplies microplate data reduction software and database systems.

In March, Aeroblaze Laboratory partnered with LIMSey to provide an online portal for managing testing jobs.

Simulations Plus announced in April a distribution agreement with Electrolab India.

In May, BC Platforms, a provider of genomic data management solutions, closed a $10 million financing round, led by Debiopharm Innovation and Tesi.

ELN firm LabArchives integrated its system with Microsoft Office Online. The company has 180,000 users of its software.

SolveBio announced the integration of its Pathway Studio Pathway Viewer software with Elsevier’s database of biological molecular interactions and curated pathways.

In May, John Wiley and Sons partnered with CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society, for predictive synthesis, which will integrate the ChemPlanner cheminformatics software with CAS’s reaction content and associated references. New features include stereoselective retrosynthetic prediction. The latest version of ChemPlanner will be delivered exclusively in SciFinder.

Optibrium announced in May a collaboration with Imperial College London and the nonprofit Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative for drug development for neglected diseases.

In June, simulations and modeling software firm Simulations Plus agreed to purchase DILIsym Services for $10 million in cash and a possible earn out of up to $5 million. DILIsym Services provides products for simulation of drug-induced liver injury. DILIsym generated 2016 revenue of just over $3 million.

Product Introductions

In April, Autoscribe Informatics introduced the Field Analytics System for its Matrix Gemini LIMS. It allows for test data to be recorded off-line and uploaded when an Internet connection is available.

Brooks Life Science Systems released in May the BioStudies biobank data management system, which is integrated with MicroStrategy’s enterprise analytics and mobility software. It features visualization and dashboard capabilities.

In May, PerkinElmer launched PerkinElmer Signals Lead Discovery for searching, aggregating and analyzing internal and external data sources.

In June, TIBCO introduced the TIBCO Spotfire Data Catalog, a data connectivity and management solution for automatically finding and relating structured and unstructured data. It is part of PerkinElmer’s Signals platform.

FlowJo released in May FlowJo Envoy, a cloud environment for coordinating multi-omic workflows for flow cytometry and gene expression.

Sales/Orders of Note

In April, ResearchSpace and Lab-Ally announced the adoption of their RSpace ELN by Mass Innovation Labs, an incubator for scientific start-ups.

In May, Goldfinch Bio, a precision therapy developer, signed a multi-year license agreement for Optibrium’s StarDrop software.

Certara announced in May the Phase I unit at Peking Union Medical College Hospital’s Clinical Pharmacology Research Center will deploy its Simcyp Population-based Simulator to develop physiologically based PBPK models in support of drug applications.