BioScreening - organic compounds for screening

30.05.2004 May 2004 News Archive
Scimagix, the leader in scalable image informatics solutions for pharmaceutical and biotechnology research and development (R&D), announced the availability of a new version of SIMS(R) (Scientific Image Management System) that provides significantly enhanced capabilities to its current version of SIMS. Drug discovery and pharmaceutical companies generate hundreds to thousands of images a day per lab, and require a solution to help store and manage the images from multiple sources with different image formats. Easy access and mining of these images facilitates a cost effective method of improving on the drug discovery process. Scimagix-PR 5/20/04

Evotec OAI, a leading partner for integrated, high-value-added drug discovery and development services, announced a collaboration with Nuvios for the screening of novel small molecule compounds for potential new drugs for the treatment and prevention of osteoporosis. Evotec OAI will apply its ultra high-throughput screening (uHTS), including proprietary, confocal fluorescence, as well as other technologies for the rapid identification of biologically active compounds to Nuvios' proprietary assays for profiling the effects of compounds on osteoclast and osteoblast growth and differentiation. Evotec-PR 5/19/04

Atugen has signed a multi-year contract research agreement with Sankyo as an extension of an already successfully collaboration on a number of molecular targets that Sankyo has discovered in different disease areas. atugen will now use its gene silencing technologies, including siRNA, GeneBlocs®, delivery reagents and functional assays to validate an undisclosed number of Sankyo targets. atugen-PR 5/17/04

Guilford Pharmaceuticals selects Evotec OAI as their Assay De-velopment and Screening Partner. The agreement is to identify small molecule compounds that interact with selected Guilford targets by providing an integrated biology solution including developing assays and utilizing them in a ultra high throughput format. Evotec-PR 5/13/04

Caliper Life Sciences and Amphora Discovery announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement for Caliper to acquire certain technology developed by Amphora for cell-based screening assays. Amphora employs Caliper's microfluidics technology as a key element in developing high-value drugs for the pharmaceutical industry and has developed broad assay
expertise for a number of target classes. Under terms of the agreement, Amphora will transfer to Caliper its proprietary cell culture techniques, as well as various hardware and software upgrades. Caliper-PR 5/6/04

Cytomyx has signed an agreement with Cambridge based Paradigm Therapeutics to produce and sell mammalian cell lines containing the ion channel sub-unit, SCN3B (Beta 3). Voltage-gated sodium channels (VGSC) confer electrical excitability on neurons and are of particular interest in drug discovery research targeting pain and a variety of other neurological conditions and disorders. Cytomyx-PR 5/5/04

Velocity11 and Labcyte announced a collaboration on a fully automated Assay Assembly system for sample inventory management and distribution. The Assay Assembly system combines the plate storage and handling capabilities of Velocity11s BioCel® Laboratory Automation platform with the nanoliter transfer technology of the Labcyte® Echo 550. Velocity11-PR 5/3/04

Peakdale Molecular has announcedthe introduction of a range of Peakexplorer™ screening libraries with the first library focused on G-Protein Coupled Receptors (GPCR). This library of over 1000 well-characterized highly diverse and novel drug-like compounds has been created using a combination of in silico design and Peakdale's chemistry. Peakdale-PR 5/3/04 

Aptanomics and Nanosyn Inc. have announced their collaboration to discover new drugs in the field of oncology. Under the agreement, Aptanomics will use its peptide aptamer technology to screen Nanosyn's highly-reputed small organic compound libraries. Nanosyn-PR 5/3/04
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