Genedata said that the Kluyver Centre Genomics of Industrial Fermentation in the Netherlands has extended by five years an ongoing agreement for Genedata's Phylosopher biological data management platform and Expressionist biomarker discovery platform.

Genedata said the Kluyver team is using the platforms to set up a systems biology workflow to enhance fermentation in yeast, filamentous fungi, or lactic acid bacteria. The workflow also supports sequencing projects, genome-wide functional studies, and strain and process design.

The University of Washington said it will expand use GenoLogics' lab information and genomics data management system Geneus in its Genome Sciences Genomics Resource Center.

The center has already installed the Geneus system, and it is currently increasing its sequencing capabilities to include a total of 18 Illumina Genome Analyzers, GenoLogics said.

GeneGo said that the Indiana Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute has licensed its pathway analysis suite MetaCore and its database searching tool Eureka.

CTSI is one of several institutes funded under the National Institutes of Health's Clinical and Translational Science Award program and is a partnership between Indiana University, Purdue University, and the University of Notre Dame.

GeneGo said that it will embed its Eureka platform into the CTSI portal for use by all CTSI researchers.

The Translational Genomics Research Institute is using the Isilon IQ network-attached storage system for its sequence analysis informatics infrastructure.

Isilion said that TGen is also using scale-out NAS and data-compression technology from Isilon partner Ocarina Networks to repurpose its previous SAN system as a backup archive.

TGen has used the Isilon IQ system to unify its next-generation sequencing workflow onto a single file system capable of scaling up to 10.4 petabytes of capacity and 45 gigabytes per second of aggregate throughput, Isilon said.

Integromics said that the National Cancer Institute and the international ESTools consortium of stem cell researchers have purchased a site-wide license for the company's RealTime StatMiner RT-qPCR data analysis software.

Under the terms of the agreement, RealTime StatMiner will be available to every researcher at the NCI and to ESTools consortium members.

CambridgeSoft said that it will deploy its E-Notebook to more than 400 researchers at VIB, a life science research institute in Belgium, after a pilot study that VIB carried out last year.

The company will deploy E-Notebook during 2010 to VIB researchers working in genomics, plant biology, neurobiology, microbiology, and other disciplines at four different universities in Flanders.

Dotmatics has licensed its query/reporting, data management, and interactive data visualization suite for cheminformatics to Heptares Therapeutics.

The solutions suite covers structure-activity relationship analysis, chemical informatics, data capture, knowledge management compound sourcing, and business intelligence solutions.

Qlucore said that researchers at Lund University will use its Omics Explorer data analysis software to conduct gene expression studies related to the prediction of sensitization.

The Lund researchers will use the software as part of the EU-funded Sens-it-iv project, which aims to develop in vitro approaches to reduce or replace animal testing for sensitization studies.

UNIConnect said that Pioneer Hi-Bred is implementing its UNIFlow laboratory information management system.