Optibrium and The Edge Software Consultancy, developers of software products and services for drug discovery and development, have announced a collaboration to provide an integrated platform linking the StarDrop and BioRails software packages

Helix Nebula – The Science Cloud (HNSciCloud) – has launched a €5.3 million tender to establish a European hybrid cloud platform

MSC Software has announced a partnership with the Campania Region Technological Aerospace District to launch the SIMULAB Project

Certara, a provider of decision support technology and consulting services for optimising drug development, has announced that Mitsubishi Tanabe has joined its Simcyp Consortium and licensed its proprietary Simcyp Population-based Simulator

Dassault Systèmes, a provider of product lifecycle management solutions, has announced that it will acquire Computer Simulation Technology, a specialist in electromagnetic and electronics simulation, for approximately 220 million euros

A new bioinformatics company, Nostrum BioDiscovery, a spin-out created through the combined efforts of The Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center - National Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) – has been created accelerate drug discovery through the application of high-performance computing

DataDirect Networks (DDN), has opened a research and development centre in Paris, in response to strong demand the French market and across Europe for high-performance big data storage solutions

Computer Simulation Technology has announced the acquisition of IdemWorks, a provider of modelling tools and services

The Pistoia Alliance has announced that the Presidents Challenge 2016 is now open for entries. The deadline for entries is Friday 2 September

Autoscribe Informatics has appointed Ritme as its distributor for the Matrix Gemini Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) in France, Italy and Switzerland