NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – BioDiscovery announced today that it has partnered with Thermo Fisher Scientific on the development of an end-to-end cancer research product.
Under the terms of the deal, the companies will create an assay and software research package based on BioDiscovery's Nexus Express for OncoScan software — a copy number detection and downstream analysis tool developed for Affymetrix's OncoScan CNV assay — for Thermo's cancer research product portfolio. Thermo acquired Affymetrix in 2016.
Additional terms were not disclosed.
BioDiscovery had been working with Affymetrix for a number of years prior to the Thermo acquisition. In 2011, BioDiscovery become the preferred software provider for Affy's OncoScan FFPE Express Service data analysis, and in 2013 the companies introduced the Nexus for OncoScan software.
"Numerous researchers across the globe have relied on our flagship Nexus copy number product, as well as the Nexus Express for OncoScan software product, for quick and robust analysis of genomic data," BioDiscovery Founder Soheil Shams said in a statement. "We have seen a significant increase in OEM customers due to our software development capabilities. Our goal is to ensure our partners have a strategic advantage against the competition by leveraging our software."