Business & Finance

Symyx Transitions to Pure-Play Scientific Software Company

Sunnyvale, CA (Scicasts) - Symyx Technologies has announced it's successful transition to a pure-play scientific software company with the completion of the planned divestiture of its High Productivity Research (HPR) business unit assets, previously announced on February 11, 2010. The divested assets will be owned and operated by FreeSlate (formerly HPR Global) in HPR's current location in Sunnyvale, California.

CLC bio and Isilon Form Partnership

Aarhus, Denmark (Scicasts) - CLC bio, a bioinformatics solution provider, has announced a partnership with Isilon Systems, which the company believes will help the life science community eliminate some of the toughest workflow bottlenecks when working with high-throughput sequencing data: Analysis and storage.

Evonik Extends Research and Development Partnership with Genedata

Basel, Switzerland (Scicasts) - Genedata, a provider of advanced software solutions for industrial biotechnology R&D, has announced an extended partnership with Evonik, a life science, specialty chemicals and material science company. According to the announcement, Evonik is expanding the application of its central computational infrastructure and has renewed licenses for the Genedata Phylosopher research data management system and the Genedata Expressionist cross-omics and molecular profiling system.

Infosys Technologies and Elan Pharmaceuticals Collaborate on Discovery Research

Fremont, CA - Infosys Technologies has announced that it will design and implement the Research Informatics System (RISe) at Elan Pharmaceuticals, to accelerate discovery research using a path-breaking co-creation engagement model that leverages Infosys’ existing intellectual property in this field.

IBM to Acquire Initiate Systems

Armonk, NY (Scicasts) - IBM has unveiled that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Initiate Systems, a market leader in data integrity software for information sharing among healthcare and government organizations. Initiate's software helps healthcare clients work more intelligently and efficiently with timely access to patient and clinical data. It also enables governments to share information across multiple agencies to better serve citizens.

AB SCIEX Launches as New Company

Foster City, CA and Concord, ON (Scicasts) - AB SCIEX has announced its launch as a new company dedicated to life science analytical technologies. According to the announcement, the new company combines the two halves of the highly successful AB SCIEX mass spectrometry joint venture into an integrated organization. AB SCIEX intends to utilize its new operating structure to increase speed to market in developing innovative new solutions and expanding service and support to enable the scientific community to continue its increasing use of mass spectrometry for a broader range of applications.

TGen Finalizes Alliance with Van Andel Research Institute

Phoenix, AZ (Scicasts) - The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) has announced the completion of a strategic alliance and affiliation agreement with the Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) that will maximize the research capabilities of both non-profit institutes.

TGen and Geisinger Health System Announce Strategic Partnership

Phoenix, AZ and Danville, PA (Scicasts) - The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and Geisinger Health System have announced the signing of a strategic research agreement that provides for a focused look at the gaps in clinical medicine where biomedical research can make a difference.

Finland Invests €1.85 Million in pan-European Infrastructure for Biomedical Research

Helsinki, Finland (Scicasts) - Finland has made its first specific commitment to the development of European biomedical research infrastructures (BMS ESFRIs) by supporting a joint pilot infrastructure project in bioinformatics (ELIXIR), biobanking (BBMRI) and translational research (EATRIS), according to a report from University of Helsinki. The initial commitment of 1.85 M€ is to support preparation and pilot studies in 2010.

Sage and Pfizer Enter Oncology Research Partnership

Seattle, WA (Scicast) - Sage Bionetworks has announced a new research partnership with Pfizer to build, analyze and exploit advanced network models of cancer.

Life Technologies to Acquire AcroMetrix

Carlsbad, CA (Scicasts) - Life Technologies, a provider of innovative life science solutions, has unveiled that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire AcroMetrix, for an undisclosed amount.

BioFocus Achieves €1.6 M in Payments

Saffron Walden, UK (Scicasts) - BioFocus has unveiled that it has achieved success in its oncology target discovery collaboration with Ortho Biotech Oncology Research & Development, a division of Janssen Pharmaceutica N.V. (Janssen). The success of the program has resulted in €1.6 million in target acceptance payments.

TB Alliance and BioFocus Enter Agreement

Saffron Walden, UK (Scicasts) - BioFocus has announced that it has signed a three year compound management agreement with the Global Alliance for TB Drug Development (TB Alliance). Under this agreement BioFocus will manage TB Alliance’s chemical library collection. These services will be provided by BioFocus’ compound management facility in South San Francisco, USA.

Virginia Tech Licenses GenoCAD Source Code to ISCB

Blacksburg, VA (Scicasts) - Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, an affiliated corporation of Virginia Tech, announced at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing that it has licensed the source code of GenoCAD to the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). According to the announcement, this agreement will facilitate the open source development of GenoCAD by the synthetic biology community.

imaGenes and CLC bio Collaborate

Berlin, Germany and Aarhus, Denmark (Scicasts) - CLC bio, a provider of High-Throughput Sequencing analysis solutions, has announced that they're collaborating with imaGenes, a German-based sequencing service provider, to better support the fast growing German market of high-throughput sequencing analyses. According to the announcement, imaGenes will provide all customers receiving Next Generation Sequencing data with a temporary license for CLC Genomics Workbench for assembly and downstream sequence analyses.

DNA Electronics Wins R&D Prize at Elektra09 European Electronics Industry Awards

London, UK (Scicasts) - DNA Electronics, a developer of disposable, real-time gene testing at the point-of-care, has been named as the winner of the prestigious R&D prize at the Elektra09 European Electronics Industry Awards. DNA Electronics, a spin-out of Imperial College London, triumphed from a shortlist of five other finalists to be named winner by an independent panel of judges in recognition of its innovative technology and intellectual property strategy.

Genome BC Collaborates with Chile and Norway to Sequence Salmon Genome

Vancouver, BC (Scicasts) - The economically important, environmentally sensitive Atlantic salmon species will have its genome fully sequenced, thanks to an international collaboration involving researchers, funding agencies and industry from Canada, Chile and Norway.

Supercomputing Organizations Collaborate on Extending Resources to Business, Industry

Portland, Oregon (Scicasts) - According to a report from the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), officials from the Institute and the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI) Supercomputing Center have signed a collaboration agreement in Portland, Ore., on Monday night at SC09, the international conference of high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis. The agreement is designed to enhance the offerings of both organizations' industrial outreach programs, OSC's Blue Collar Computing and KISTI's Small and Medium Business Supercomputing.

Medspira and Mayo Announce Licence Agreement

Minneapolis, MN (Scicasts) - Medspira, and Mayo Clinic have unveiled that they have entered into an agreement to commercialize, manufacture and market several Mayo Clinic developed products and technologies invented by Mayo physicians and scientists. Mayo Clinic technologies included in the licence agreement are two Radiology products currently available in the market, the Interactive Breath-Hold Control System and the BC-10 MRI Coils, and two technologies that Medspira will develop further, with the intent of making them commercially available in the next 12-24 months. "Medspira is honoured to work with Mayo Clinic where research is a critical part of its commitment to excellence and interdependence in the three areas of research, education and patient care," said Tim Anderson Medspira CEO.

IDBS Unveils Expansion in Asia Pacific

Guildford, UK, and Burlington, MA (Scicasts) - IDBS, a provider of research data management and analytics solutions to R&D organizations, has announced that it has expanded its Asia Pacific presence with new centres in both China and Australia. From these new offices IDBS is now providing customers with direct local support and training, as well as sales and business development across the entire portfolio of IDBS products; ActivityBase, E-WorkBook and InforSense Suites.