- Premier Biosoft
Infobox Company
company_name = Premier Biosoft
company_
company_type = Private
foundation = 1994
location =Palo Alto ,California
key_people =Kay Brown (CEO)
homepage = [http://www.premierbiosoft.com www.premierbiosoft.com]
footnotes =PREMIER Biosoft International (“PBI” for short) is a
California ,United States basedbioinformatics company. The company specializes in developing software for use in genomics research. In addition to developing software products, the company offers assay design services and consultancy for bioinformatics projects. [ [http://lifesciencedirectory.com/link.php?n=1394 Link Details - Bioinformatics Companies -premier Biosoft ] ]Company Background
PREMIER Biosoft, established in 1994, was one of the earliest bioinformatics company, founded by Ms. Kay Brown with a mission to serve the life science research labs all over the world. The mission statement for PBI reads as follows: “Dedicated to producing cutting edge intuitive software for life scientists.” The company serves research labs, pharmaceuticals, core facilities and biotechnology companies with its products. The company's first product, Primer Premier, was authored over 12 years ago, for designing PCR assays.
Products & Services
After the launch of
Primer Premier [Vinay Singh, Sita Naik, "A Program for Design of Degenerate Primers from a Protein Sequence", Biotechniques, February 1998] the company released SimVector, a plasmid drawing and cloning simulation tool [Apte, A. Web cloning. Nature Biotechnology 17(5):505 (1999)] , and Array Designer, for designing microarray probes.The trend in the PCR market was soon shifting towards a new and powerful technique called real time PCR. PREMIER Biosoft caught up early and authored
Beacon Designer , supporting the most popular real time PCR chemistries The company later came out with a pathogen detection system [Apte, A. N., Thakur, D., “SimGene Pathogen Identification System”, Analytical Tools for DNA, Genes, and Genomes, DNA Press (2005)] called AlleleID with support for real time PCR and microarray probe design for designing cross species, species specific, intron-exon spanning assays and splice variant microarrays.The company has ventured into proteomics and glycomics research with the launch of Xpression Primer (tagged primer design tool), Protein Networker (protein interaction studies) and SimGlycan (glycan mass spec identification software). The company's latest offering, TMA Foresight, analyzes tissue microarray data [ [http://bioitalliance.org/blogs/premier_biosoft/archive/2008/04/03/291.aspx PREMIER Biosoft : PREMIER Biosoft enters the new arena of Tissue Microarrays ] ] .
Partnerships
Some well known names in the field of biotechnology research such as
Applied Biosystems [ [http://press.appliedbiosystems.com/corpcomm/applerapress.nsf/ABIDisplayPress/803EEF28BB85BDD28825745D000B6E0E?OpenDocument&type=abi Applied Biosystems ] ] ,Bio-Rad laboratories ,Stratagene , Biolegio, Proligo, TATAA biocenter, PamGene International, Veridiam [ [http://www.veridiam.com/news/7143PR.html Veridiam Medical News Release #7143 ] ] and bioMérieux appear on PREMIER Biosoft's partnership page. The company recently announced a collaboration with MRC-Holland for supporting theirmultiplex ligation-dependent probe amplification technology in AlleleID.References
External links
* [http://www.premierbiosoft.com Premier Biosoft Homepage]
* [http://bioitalliance.org/blogs/premier_biosoft/default.aspx Bio-IT alliance page]
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