Industry

Certara, a provider of decision support technology and consulting services specialising in drug development and healthcare, has announced that it has established two Phoenix Centers of Excellence in Asia

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