NEW YORK, Nov 30 – Rosetta Inpharmatics will develop a database for Abbott Laboratories that will include gene expression profiles for compounds

NEW YORK, Nov 30 - Protein Sciences Corporation and HTS Biosystems announced an expanded proteomics collaboration Thursday, in which they will jointly develop protein chips

NEW YORK, Nov 30 - Applied Biosystems introduced a new package of consumables for its ABI prism 3700 gene expression analyzers Thursday.

NEW YORK, Nov 29 – DoubleTwist has licensed its annotated human genome database package to Merck, DoubleTwist announced Wednesday.

NEW YORK, Nov 29 -- IBM has taken an undisclosed minority equity stake in protein database provider Structural Bioinformatics of San Diego, marking Big Blue’s first investment in a life sciences co

NEW YORK, Nov 29 –DeCode Genetics, in an effort to transform its raw population genomics data into revenue-generating products, has launched two new subsidiaries: Encode for pharmacogenic studies and DeCode Cancer for developing cancer diagnostic a

NEW YORK, Nov 29 – ProteinChip-maker Ciphergen Biosystems said Wednesday that it would collaborate with Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine to develop proteomic diagnostic tests for cancer.

NEW YORK, Nov 27 -- Rosetta Inpharmatics has formed a network of genome research organizations to further develop and promote the company's Gene Expression Markup Language as a file forma

NEW YORK, Nov 28 –Rosetta Inpharmatics said Tuesday that it has entered a three-year deal to provide Monsanto with crop gene expression data.

NEW YORK, Nov 28 – It’s official.

NEW YORK, Nov 28 – Motorola said Tuesday that it would use Compugen’s chip design services in the development and manufacture of some of its DNA biochips.

NEW YORK, Nov 27 – French Proteomics company Proteus and CEA-LETI, part of the French Agency for Atomic Energy have announced a partnership to develop biochips for proteomic analysis, Proteus announced Nov 23.

NEW YORK, Nov 27 - Viaken Systems launched its European operations by opening an office near Cambridge in Great Chesterford, UK, the company announced Monday.

NEW YORK, Nov 27 – Qiagen and Luminex have agreed to jointly develop consumable kits and assays using Luminex’s Labmap technology, the companies announced Monday.

NEW YORK, Nov 27 – Spotfire and Thermo LabSystems have agreed to intergrate Spotfire.net with Thermo’s Nautilus Lab Information Management System, the companies said Monday.

NEW YORK, Nov 27 – Noted bioinformaticist Michael Liebman has resigned as Roche Bioscience’s global director of bioinformatics to become chief scientific officer at Genmatics, a joint venture between Motorola and Medical Science Associates, and director of computational biology at the Univers

NEW YORK, Nov 27 – Aclara BioSciences said that a trial judge has granted the company’s request to reduce a $52 million jury award in a microfluidics trade secret lawsuit with Caliper Technologies by $17 million .

Leading bioinformaticist Stephen Lincoln has left Incyte Genomics to become senior vice president of life sciences bioinformatics at InforMax. At his new post he will be involved in product and business development and strategic planning, a broader role than the one he had at Incyte, where he was vice president of bioinformatics research and development, Lincoln said.

Applied Biosystems has launched its ABI PRISM 7900HT Sequence Detection System, a PCR instrument that the company said can conduct gene expression measurements and SNP detection at higher throughput and lower cost than its current ABI PRISM 7700 machine.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Nov 22 - As many black South Africans struggle to shake off the legacy of Apartheid, some are finding that bioinformatics offers a ticket to

NEW YORK, Nov 22 - CombiMatrix, a company that is using semiconductor technology to develop customizable microarrays, has filed for a $100 million initial public offering, the company announced Wednesday. CombiMatrix, based in Snoqualmie, Wash., wi

InforMax announced last week that the Whitehead Institute had signed on to become a customer and development partner for GenoMax, signaling InforMax s efforts to keep up with competitors who have recently formed alliances in the hopes of creating the ultimate bioinformatics platform.

Silicon Genetics has sold its enterprise-wide gene expression software application, GeNet, to the Cincinnati Children s Hospital Research Foundation, marking the first commercial sale of the product.

Michael Liebman has resigned as global director of bioinformatics at Roche Bioscience.

AT A GLANCE: Served eight years in the Israel Defense Forces’ Talpiot unit, during the first three of which he completed a Bachelor’s degree at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, in Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science. Holds an MBA from INSEAD, France.