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News Release from: Agilent Technologies Europe
Edited by the Laboratorytalk Editorial
Team on 22 August 2007
Strand reaches GeneSpring development
agreement
Agilent Technologies has announced an agreement that enables Strand Life Sciences to develop Agilent's GeneSpring software
This move is designed to accelerate upgrades as Agilent aggressively addresses evolving customer needs This agreement expands on an existing relationship between Stratagene and Strand
This article was originally published on Laboratorytalk on 30 Jun 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Stratagene was acquired by Agilent in June 2007.
"We are excited about this new partnership with Strand Life Sciences", said Bruce von Herrmann, general manager and vice president of Agilent's Software and Informatics Division.
"Their expertise in delivering chemistry and biology software will accelerate our bioinformatics software development and move us toward our number-one goal of providing application and workflow solutions for customers".
"Agilent is an ideal partner for us as we build out applications for systems biology and, more broadly, in drug discovery", said Vijay Chandru, PhD, chairman and chief executive officer of Strand Life Sciences.
"Our proven Avadis platform will power the market leading GeneSpring products and enable rapid development of new functionality and analysis capabilities.
"This relationship will give customers more reasons to choose GeneSpring as their data analysis solution".
The first version of GeneSpring GX developed by Strand Life Sciences is scheduled for release in late 2007.
Customers of Stratagene's ArrayAssist software will be offered a migration path to this new version of GeneSpring.
More information will be available at the Agilent Bioinformatics Conference, September 27-28, 2007 in Berlin, Germany.
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