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Top Stories
 Ocimum Biosolutions acquired the Microarrays division of MWG Biotech, a world leader in Genomics. As part of this deal, Ocimum Biosolutions took over MWG's portfolio of biochips on the complete genomes of a multitude of model organisms (including rat, mouse, zebra, and fish) as well as a biochip representing the complete human genome. These would now be known as OciChips™.
Ocimum Biosolutions will continue to produce all MWG Biotech catalog products unchanged and according to same high quality standards. This provides guarantee to all former MWG Biotech customers that they will able to seamlessly carry on with ongoing research projects and will not have to worry about compatibility of data. More... |
 With many new annotations and more sequence information in place, it became imperative to update the existing Mouse 30K OciChip™ and to make this progress available to our customers. It goes without saying that Ocimum Biosolutions continues to produce the older version of the Mouse 30K OciChip™ (slides A, B, C) in order to enable all scientists to continue any research projects with the product. The Mouse 30K OciChip™ and OligoSet has continued unchanged after Ocimum Biosolutions acquired the microarray business from MWG Biotech like all other MWG Biotech catalog arrays. More...
 Ocimum Biosolutions Inflammation Arrays (Human and Mouse) have been developed and extensively validated in cooperation with Professor Kracht's Group at the Medical High School Hanover, Germany. It is now possible to access a huge amount of data online, established with Ocimum Biosolutions Inflammation Arrays in numerous experimental settings in Hanover. More...
 Along with its OciChip™ arrays, Ocimum Biosolutions now offers a full fledged hybridization service for expression profiling, including first pass data analysis taking advantage of the in-house produced Genowiz™ array analysis software solution. This offers the opportunity to get access to the array technology without hardware investments and no learning delays but have results immediately. The customer can take advantage of a variety of options including amplification protocols starting with as little as 100 ng of total RNA. The service successfully started in June 2005 in the Munich, Germany and soon will be available from Indianapolis, USA and Hyderabad, India to serve the North American and Asian markets alike.
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Product Announcements
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Pharmatracker™ is a multi-platform, multi-user, cost-effective Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) especially suited for pharmaceutical industry. It enables R&D and manufacturing laboratories to perform QA/QC on all inventories and to keep accurate track of samples, reagents, instruments, processes, and output. It provides complete and cost effective solution for implementing a paperless Pharma lab. More...
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Ocimum Biosolutions released Genowiz™ 3.0 on July 1, 2005.  Genowiz™ is a powerful gene expression analysis program that has been designed to store, process and visualize gene expression data efficiently. It includes a suite of advanced analysis methods and allows researchers to select analysis methods appropriate for their dataset. More... |
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Ocimum Biosolutions released Genchek™ 2.2 on July 20, 2005.  Genchek™ is a comprehensive, yet user-friendly sequence analysis tool with architecture to suit multi-platform and multiple-user-access. In addition to functionalities such as import of sequences in all universally recognized formats, alignments, vector trimming, contig assembly, BLAST, primer design and analysis for ORFs, RE and protease digestion sites, Motifs, and hydrophobicity plots, Genchek™ 2.2 comes with more features to your workbench. |
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Customer News
Ocimum has added a few more names in the list of its prestigious clients in last quarter. Some of them are
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- Cerilliant Corporation, Texas, U.S.A. (Pharmatracker™)
- National Institute of Cellular Biology, DCU, Dublin, Ireland (Biotracker™)
- UNM Health Sciences Center, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico (Biotracker™)
- Nagarjuna Fertilizers and Chemicals Limited (NFCL), Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India (Biotracker™)
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- The Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, U.S.A. (Genchek™)
- Natural Resources Canada, Canada Forest Service, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada (Genchek™)
- Zentaris GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany (Genchek™)
- Toronto General Research Institute (TGRI), Toronto, Ontario, Canada (Genowiz™)
- Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany (Genowiz™)
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Upcoming Events
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The 12th Annual Chips to Hits® conference will be held on September 12-14, 2005 at Boston Convention & Expo Centre, Boston MA. This event will feature conference sessions, new product launches, technology workshops, 100 exhibition booths and 75 scientific posters. Ocimum Biosolutions is one of the Tote Bag sponsors of this event. Please visit us in the exhibit hall to know more about our OciChips™.
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Ocimum Biosolutions will also be exhibiting its latest products in Society for Neuroscience's 35th Annual Meeting to be held November 12–16, 2005 in Washington D.C.
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Events in last quarter
Ocimum Biosolutions has recently participated in quite a few industry shows. Some of them are
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The 13th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology was hosted on June 25-29 which brought together scientists from molecular biology, medicine, computer science, mathematics and statistics. ISMB was a great success for Ocimum Biosolutions as it bought Ocimum Biosolutions to the attention of a lot of academics and research institutions along with commercial biotech and pharma companies.
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Bio-IT World Conference + Expo 2005 edition was held in Boston on May 17-19, 2005 at Boston's Hynes Convention Centre. Ocimum showcased its Bio IT capabilities here and participated along with the government of Andhra Pradesh under the India pavilion. Ocimum Biosolutions got a huge response for being an integrated genomics solution provider. The sponsors at this year's event included Ocimum Biosolutions along with EMC, Hewlett Packard, IBM, Microsoft Corporation, and Sun Microsystems.
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The fifth editiion of Bangalore Bio was held on April 22-24, 2005. Ocimum Biosolutions launched the brand name “OciChips” during this show. Ocimum Biosolutions also did two technology showcase workshops, one on OciChips and another on Data Management for biotech and pharma companies.
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The 44th Annual Meeting of SOT was held at the Ernest Morial Convention Center, New Orleans during the week of March 6-10, 2005. Ocimum Biosolutions also participated in it, highlighting Toxchek™ and other preclinical capabilities along with Clintox Bioservices.
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