Company Announcements

GenomeQuest and Ingenuity Systems integrated their respective Sequence Data Management platform and IPA software.

Analytik Jena’s AJ Blomesystem subsidiary, a LIMS supplier, acquired a 55% share in comicon, which develops software modules for lipid chemistry for food analysis.

CLC bio will participate in the EU’s COGANGS (Comparative Genomics and Next Generation Sequencing) project to develop a software suite using up to one thousand genomes as knowledge inputs for gene regulation analysis.

Simulations Plus announced in January a five-year research collaboration agreement with the FDA to develop QSAR toxicity models.

Elsevier and IDBS integrated their respective Reaxys chemistry workflow solution and E-Workbook Suite.

In February, GenoLogics entered into a coselling agreement with Illumina, which will market a version of its Geneus LIMS that is preconfigured for Illumina’s sequencing instruments and TruSeq sample preparation kits.

Life Technologies signed a distribution agreement with Partek, making the Partek Genomics Suite a featured solution for analyzing data generated by the Ion Torrent sequencer.

IDBS’s 2010 revenues grew 26.9% to $46.2 million. Worldwide perpetual software license sales increased 82% to $16.7 million, with services revenue up 10% to $11.8 million and recurring annual revenues up 8% to $17.7 million.

Product Introductions

Gene Logic launched ASCENTA 4.0, a reference software product for use in gene expression studies, featuring a new Gene Ontology view.

Labtronics released Nexxis EM (Environmental Monitoring), a software system that monitors environmental systems and makes the data available to the whole lab.

Genedata introduced Genedata Screener 9, a comprehensive software system for high-content data analysis, featuring improved image access and display and new visualization options.

Golden Helix released a new Sequence Analysis Module for its SNP & Variation Suite software, featuring tertiary analysis methods for next-generation DNA sequencing studies.

BSSL Software introduced the Seahorse Scientific Workbench, a software suite based on the AnIML data standard for capturing, analyzing and sharing lab data from any analytical technique.

BSSL Software released SciPDF technology, which embeds scientific data in existing PDF documents.

IDBS launched ScienceLink, a scientific content–brokerage platform for delivery of on-demand scientific content from third parties, as a feature of its E-Workbook Suite.