Cambridge, UK — Congenica, a global provider of clinical genomics interpretation software, today announced a new customer partnership with the Coimbra Paediatric Hospital (CPH), a leading paediatric hospital in Portugal and part of the Coimbra Hospital and University Centre (CHUC). Through this partnership, the hospital has licensed Congenica’s Sapientia™ software platform to perform analysis of whole-exome sequencing data and […]

Oxford Nanopore has released a new basecaller, Albacore v2.0.1, that identifies DNA sequences directly from raw data, rather than utilising an intermediary stage called ‘event detection’. This upgrade enhances accuracy of the single-read sequence data, contributing to high consensus accuracy for nanopore sequence data. Moving to raw basecalling also opens up opportunities for further improvements […]

Simulations Plus, Inc. (NASDAQ: SLP), a leading provider of simulation and modeling software for pharmaceutical discovery and development, today announced changes in its senior management structure. Walt Woltosz, chairman and chief executive officer of Simulations Plus, Inc., said, “The board of directors has appointed Mr. John DiBella president of the Lancaster, California division, known as […]

DNAnexus has teamed up with Saphetor, a leading variant analysis company, to build a sample-in, report-out genomic analysis solution. Saphetor annotates and classifies genetic variants from next-generation sequencing (NGS) data to help clinicians quickly and accurately diagnose disease to make faster, more precise treatment decisions. Saphetor’s technology is now available on the DNAnexus cloud-based platform. Saphetor has […]

Major update incorporates new models and tighter integration with GastroPlus™ Simulations Plus, Inc. (NASDAQ: SLP), a leading provider of modeling and simulation solutions for the pharmaceutical, chemicals, and consumer goods industries, today announced that it has released version 2 of its in vitro data analysis program, MembranePlus™. John DiBella, vice president for marketing and sales for Simulations Plus, said: […]

BOSTON, Mass., and PHILADELPHIA, Penn., August 15, 2017 –  Seven Bridges, the biomedical data analysis company, today announced that it has been selected to build a new data center in partnership with the Center for Data Driven Discovery in Biomedicine (D³b) at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and a consortium of academic research institutions.  This effort is funded by […]

Significant update of liver safety program includes performance and capability enhancements  DILIsym Services Inc., a Simulations Plus company (NASDAQ: SLP) and a leading provider of simulation and modeling software for pharmaceutical safety and efficacy, today announced that it has released Version 6A of its flagship QSP (quantitative systems pharmacology) modeling program, DILIsym. Dr. Paul Watkins, chair of […]

Genomics plays key role in metabolic disease study Partek genomic analysis software recently received its six thousandth citation in the June edition of Science Translational Medicine. To celebrate, Partek reached out to the authors of the paper that brought them to this milestone: Type 2 immunity is protective in metabolic disease but exacerbates NAFLD collaboratively with TGF-β. The […]

MADISON, Wisconsin – DNASTAR® has appointed SHIPS Bioscience as a distributor of its DNA, RNA and protein sequence analysis software in Japan, effective immediately. SHIPS Bioscience is a new company devoted to meeting the life science needs of researchers throughout Japan primarily through the distribution and support of DNASTAR software.   Shinji Shimada, President of […]

SAN DIEGO — Edico Genome today announced it has signed contracts with the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) and the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for the use of its DRAGENTM(Dynamic Read Analysis for Genomics) Bio-IT platform. Continuing their initiatives to advance cancer research, NHGRI and NCI purchased Edico Genome’s DRAGEN Somatic pipeline and DRAGEN Genome pipeline, ensuring accuracy, reducing costs and accelerating […]