SAN DIEGO, Calif.--Invitrogen and the Novartis Institute for Functional Genomics announced that they will collaborate to develop collections of full-length genes for expression and protein structural studies.

MENLO PARK, Calif.--Peter Karp has vacated his position as vice-president for pathway research at Pangea Systems, which was recently re-launched as DoubleTwist, to direct the bioinformatics research grou

SAN DIEGO--Alan Hillyard, who joined Axys Pharmaceuticals as vice-president of information systems in July, 1999, left the company last month to fill the post of vice-president informatics and chief information

POHANG, South Korea--The Biological Research Information Center here has introduced GeneNet version 1.0, a meta-search system for online analysis of sequence similarity.

PASADENA, Calif.--Paracel announced last month that Incyte Pharmaceuticals has purchased Paracel’s massively parallel genetic data analysis engine for high-throughput search and annotation, GeneMatcher.

PLEASANTON, Calif.--EBioinformatics, a provider of web-based bioinformatics tools, has licensed Genscan, a gene-finding software program, from Stanford University Office of Technology Licensing.

HINXTON, UK--The UK’s Human Genome Mapping Project has announced the release of Expressed Sequence Tag Analysis Tools Etc., or ESTate 5.0.

WALTHAM, Mass.--Genome Therapeutics last month announced that it had reached a milestone in its genomics alliance with Schering-Plough.

BERLIN--Epigenomics, a biotech company here, has teamed up with researchers from several European research centers including the Sanger Center, the Max Planck Institute, the Centre National de Genotyp

PALO ALTO, Calif.--Incyte Pharmaceuticals last month filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Gene Logic, alleging that a process used by Gene Logic for amplifying complementary DNA infringes US patents 5,71

CAPE TOWN, South Africa--The South African National Bioinformatics Institute has released an upgraded version of its Stack database, an aligned gene index of human sequences and underlying tissue specific indices.

ANN ARBOR, Mich.--The Howard Hughes Medical Institute announced that it would grant the University of Michigan Medical School $4 million during the next four years to support a new interdisciplinary program in

PARSIPPANY, NJ--American Cyanamid and Hyseq announced last month that they have entered a multiyear agreement to discover agriculturally relevant genes using Hyseq’s high-throughput genomics and bioinformatics

GAITHERSBURG, Md.--Sequenom has installed its MassArray system at the US National Cancer Institute’s Advanced Technology Center here for use in analysis of single-nucleotide polymorphisms that occur in genes in

PRINCETON, NJ--AxCell Biosciences, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cytogen, has entered into a partnership with Compaq to develop a database software package that the companies said will help select promising drug targe

KIRKLAND, Wash.--Rosetta Inpharmatics last month signed an alliance with Agilent Technologies, a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard, to develop its new gene expression bio-informatics tool called Resolver Exp

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.--Maxygen late last month announced its initial public offering of 6.9 million shares of common stock at $16 per share.

ROCKVILLE, Md.--James Peck, 36, who spent the last 10 years developing internal and end-user software applications for the Lexis-Nexis online research company has been appointed vice-president, product development at Celera Genomics.

NEW YORK--IBM last month announced that a super-computer it is designing to be capable of one quadrillion operations per second will be used initially to tackle the "grand challenge" of modeling the folding of human proteins.

GAITHERSBURG, Md.--Viaken Systems, an application service provider here that specializes in research informatics for biopharma-ceutical customers, has allied with the Cambridge, UK, bioinformatics and systems integrat

OAKLAND, Calif.--Pangea Systems has changed its name to DoubleTwist to reflect its new identity as an application service provider and internet company, hosting a life science research portal at

SEATTLE, Wash.--Leroy Hood, a biotechnology pioneer and expert in genomic research and large scale DNA sequencing, has left his position with the Department of Molecular Biotechnology at the University of Washington to start a private venture.

JAMESBURG, NJ--Compugen last month staked out new bioinformatics territory on the internet by establishing LabOnWeb.com, a subscription-based online life sciences research portal. The move put Compugen into competition with other new, similar efforts such as Hyseq s GeneSolutions.com, eBioinformatics BioNavigator, and DoubleTwist.com, the new incarnation of Pangea Systems.

ROCKVILLE, Md.--1999 was a good year for bioinformatics software provider InforMax. The company doubled its staff to 110 while maintaining its focus on revenue growth and being profitable, Alex Titomirov, chairman and CEO of the ten-year-old operation, told BioInform. Some of the company s most recent wins involve Bristol-Myers Squibb and the US National Institutes of Health, which both licensed Vector NTI Suite, InforMax s desktop sequence analysis software package that now has more than 800 customers--more than 10,000 individual users.

PALO ALTO, Calif.--Molecular Applications Group s internet homepage vanished from cyberspace and furniture was being removed from its offices here last month as executives concluded negotiations to sell ownership of the company s key bioinformatics technologies, Stingray and Panther, to Affymetrix and Celera Genomics, respectively. CEO Debra Yu, who is a partner with the venture firm Bay City Capital, told BioInform that Molecular Applications Look and GeneMine technology were also sold in deals that she said were not disclosable. Although Yu said that the web site was down due to a deliberate power outage during the holidays, and that it would be maintained to support Molecular Applications existing customers, she acknoweldged that the company has been dissolved.