Madison, Wisconsin
January 27, 2010
DNASTAR, Inc. and the BioIT Alliance today announced the expansion of the BioIT Alliance program to include DNASTAR, a software company that has been meeting the sequence assembly and analysis needs of life scientists for more than 25 years. The BioIT Alliance is a group of organizations working together to realize the potential of personalized medicine.
According to Les Jordan, Director of the BioIT Alliance, “Informatics is a key component in moving to true personalized medicine. With DNASTAR’s long-standing reputation for producing cutting edge desktop computer software tools for life scientists, it was only natural that DNASTAR would join the Alliance to help move the world closer to the reality of personalized medicine.”
Tom Schwei, DNASTAR’s General Manager, commented, “As the next-generation DNA sequencing revolution has expanded scientists’ thinking about what is possible, now is the time to aggressively move forward to solve the most important challenges we face in effectively processing, analyzing and interpreting the data generated by these new and emerging technologies. The keys to the future of human health are wrapped up in the data currently being generated. We at DNASTAR are pleased to be partnering with other members of the BioIT Alliance to help unlock the mysteries surrounding personalized medicine.”
The BioIT Alliance is a group of organizations committed to working together to realize the potential of personalized medicine by uniting the pharmaceutical, biotech, hardware, and software industries to explore new ways to share complex biomedical data and collaborate among multi-disciplinary teams to speed the pace of discovery in the life sciences.
DNASTAR, Inc., Madison, Wisconsin has been a pioneer in the development and sale of desktop computer software used to increase life scientists’ productivity for more than 25 years. Currently, DNASTAR produces Lasergene, a sequence analysis software suite; SeqMan NGen for the assembly of next-generation DNA sequence data; GenVision, a data visualization software application; and ArrayStar, a microarray and RNA-Seq gene expression analysis and visualization tool.
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