GAITHERSBURG, Md.--Gene Logic said it has signed the first two subscribers to its new GeneExpress database suite, a massive reference database of gene expression information.

SAN DIEGO--Structural Bioinformatics has purchased GeneMine from the now-defunct Palo Alto, Calif., bioinformatics company, Molecular Applications Group.

HAYWARD, Calif.--Lynx Therapeutics was recently issued a patent broadly covering its use of encoded adaptors in its Massively Parallel Signature Sequencing technology.

HERZALIYA, Israel--Bio-IT, a new company here also known as Bio-Information Technologies, said it has developed a computational tool that predicts the three-dimensional structure of proteins that can lead to drug developments.

ROYSTON HERTS, UK--Dominic Clark, who once served as UK bioinformatics manager for Glaxo Wellcome’s global R&D information systems and was most recently global internet and intranet services manager at Glax

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Gregory Went, a cofounder and executive vice-president of CuraGen, has taken the position of chief operating officer at Kiva Genetics, a privately held company founded here in 1998

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--LJL BioSystems has launched its High Efficiency Fluorescence Polarization AlleleSorter, a combination of customized algorithms and information technology tools designed to enable automated genotype

SUNNYVALE, Calif.--Amersham Pharmacia Biotech has been awarded a grant by the US National Human Genome Research Institute under a new program called Advanced Development of Genomic Technologies that is emphasiz

BOSTON--Boston University scientists have created what they say is the first synthetic "genetic toggle switch" to control the activity of genes. Working with E.

FOSTER CITY, Calif.--PE Biosystems Group is set to acquire Third Wave Technologies for $325.1 million in stock, according to a Bloomberg News report.

THE WOODLANDS, Texas--Lexicon Genetics has launched Lexgen.com, a "genomics internet exchange" that contains a substantial portion of Lexicon’s OmniBank gene sequence database and library of 60,000 knockout mouse clon

PALO ALTO, Calif.--Biogen has licensed the LifeSeq Gold database and LifeTools enterprise-wide data management software from Incyte Pharmaceuticals, which could receive future milestone payments and royalties o

ROCKVILLE, Md.--Celera Genomics’ stock price continued its climb on news of a planned two-for-one split, along with the announcement that it and the Berkeley, Calif., genomics firm Neomorphic have developed a b

LONDON--With the news that Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham intend to merge to form the world’s largest pharmaceutical company, it is clear that genomics and bioinformatics will play key roles as th

Chicago--The SNP Consortium announced that IBM has joined its group effort to create a public database of gene markers to enhance understanding of the biological basis for disease.

HEIDELBERG, Germany--German bioinformatics company Lion Bioscience, which revealed recently that it is planning a mid-year initial public offering on the Nasdaq and German NeuerMarkt exchanges, has formed a functional genomics partnership with Paradigm Genetics of Raleigh, North Carolina.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--When Hoechst and Rhone Poulenc merged last month to form the life sciences company Aventis in Frankfurt, Germany, one of the first steps taken by the new company s pharmaceutical arm was to spend $40 million to gain total control over the Hoechst-Ariad Genomics Center here.

KINGSTON, Ontario--The moment isn t exactly an auspicious one for launching a new bioinformatics software company. A shakeout in the competitive market has been predicted for years, and, in recent months, early entrants to the industry such as Compugen, Neomorphic, and Pangea Systems, have drastically altered their strategies. Another trailblazing bioinformatics company, Molecular Applications Group, was dissolved last month not long after its CEO had predicted that most companies in the space would ultimately either die or merge.

MARCO ISLAND, Fla.--A new scientific meeting for the genomics community that was organized by four noted researchers as an alternative to the Institute for Genomic Research s annual Genome Sequencing and Analysis Conference has already attracted more registrants than organizers anticipated. Advances in Genome Biology and Technology will be held here February 5-8.

GAITHERSBURG, Md.--Viaken Systems, which delivers via the internet research informatics technologies for genomic and biotech research companies, said it will team up with Hewlett-Packard to develop high-perform

VENLO, Netherlands--Qiagen announced last week that it has acquired Rapigene, a maker of genomic and single-nucleotide polymorphism analysis technologies.

SAN RAMON, Calif.--The bioinformatics company D’Trends announced that Da Hsuan Feng has joined its board.

SAN FRANCISCO--1999 ended on a high note for the biotech industry as interest in sector stocks was renewed and a number of companies completed successful IPOs during the fourth quarter, according to private merchant bank

BERKELEY, Calif.--Neomorphic, a privately held computational genomics company here, has appointed Guy Henshaw and Michael Olson to its board of directors.

HINXTON, UK--The Sanger Centre here said it will collaborate with Third Wave Technologies of Madison, Wis., to construct a high-density, single-nucleotide polymorphism map of human chromosome 22, which the cent