CLC bio news

CLC bio expanding network to deliver NGS to the Japanese market

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:41:00 +0100

CLC bio has started a new expansion phase of the distribution of its NGS solutions into the Japanese market.

GenoLogics and CLC bio to Provide End-to-End Genomics Informatics and Analysis for Next Generation Sequencing

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:57:00 +0200

GenoLogics and CLC bio will provide an end-to-end informatics and analysis solution, optimized for Next Generation Sequencing research that addresses both lab and data management and data analysis all within one integrated system.

BIOBASE and CLC bio partner to give genomics researchers world class solution

Tue, 6 Oct 2009 09:12:00 +0200

At the Biotechnica / Bio-IT World Europe conference in Hannover, Germany, BIOBASE and CLC bio announced a partnership to integrate BIOBASE's comprehensive TRANSFAC� database with CLC bio's popular workbenches and award-winning server solution.

Accurate and fast methods to estimate the population mutation rate from error prone sequences

Mon, 5 Oct 2009 12:12:00 +0200

CSO at CLC bio, Bjarne Knudsen and Michael M. Miyamoto from the University of Florida recently wrote an article in BMC Bioinformatics.

RainDance Technologies and CLC bio Collaborate to Develop Specialized Software Solutions for Targeted Resequencing

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 13:19:00 +0200

RainDance Technologies and CLC bio today announced a partnership to develop specialized software for the analysis of targeted resequencing data generated by workflows incorporating RainDance's Sequence Enrichment Solution and next generation DNA sequencing platforms.

CLC bio delivers specialized immunoinformatics solution to Symphogen

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:45:00 +0200

CLC bio has just completed a specialized immunoinformatics solution that is fully customized to fit into Symphogen's proprietary Symplex� technology for high throughput identification of antibodies with diversity and specificity customized to a particular therapeutic application.

CLC bio produce the most reliable mapping results according to article published in PLoS ONE

Mon, 3 Aug 2009 09:11:00 +0200

Last week Nicola Palmieri and Christian Schl�tterer of Institut f�r Populationsgenetik, Veterin�rmedizinische Universit�t Wien, Vienna, Austria, published an article in PLoS ONE, Vol. 4, No. 7. (28 July 2009), e6323, under the headline Mapping Accuracy of Short Reads from Massively Parallel Sequencing and the Implications for Quantitative Expression Profiling

The University of Queensland signs agreement with CLC bio

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:25:00 +0200

The University of Queensland and CLC bio have signed an agreement, providing each student enrolled in the university's genetics courses with a copy of CLC Main Workbench, worth more than $2 million USD over four years.

JCVI improves its metagenomics annotation pipeline with high-performance computing solution from CLC bio

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:53:00 +0200

The J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI) in Rockville, Maryland, has recently incorporated CLC bio's accelerated versions of the algorithms Hmmpfam and Hmmsearch into their bioinformatics pipeline for functional annotation of proteins identified in metagenomics data. The algorithms originate from Dr. Sean Eddy's popular HMMER package but their core parts have been accelerated by CLC bio using SIMD technology.

BaseClear to bundle Illumina data with CLC bio's software

Thu, 9 Jul 2009 10:48:00 +0200

Today, the leading provider of Next Generation Sequencing analysis solutions, CLC bio, announced that the premier Dutch sequencing service center, BaseClear, will provide all customers receiving Next Generation Sequencing data with a license for CLC Genomics Workbench for assembly and downstream sequence analyses.

CLC bio expands NGS solutions with Digital Gene Expression by Tag Profiling

Thu, 2 Jul 2009 08:48:00 +0200

CLC bio today announced the release of new versions of the desktop application CLC Genomics Workbench, version 3.6 and the award-winning enterprise platform CLC Genomics Server, version 1.6. With this release, CLC bio's platform is taking yet another major step towards full support for researchers preferring Digital Gene Expression analysis compared to traditional analogue Expression Array analysis.

CLC bio reveals biocomputing solution at ISMB 2009 in Stockholm

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:49:00 +0200

At the 17th international conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) and 8th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) in Stockholm, Sweden, we have revealed our first turnkey biocomputing solution for analyzing and visualizing Next Generation Sequencing data, called CLC Genomics Machine.

A big move into high-performance computing...

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:05:00 +0200

At the upcoming 17th international conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) and 8th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) in Stockholm, Sweden, June 27 – July 2, we will unveil our first turnkey solution for analyzing and visualizing Next Generation Sequencing data, called CLC Genomics Machine.

Next Generation Sequencing solutions with ChIP-sequencing

Wed, 3 Jun 2009 15:29:00 +0200

CLC bio today announced the release of new versions of their premier solutions for analyzing and visualizing Next Generation Sequencing data, the desktop application CLC Genomics Workbench, version 3.5 and the award-winning enterprise platform CLC Genomics Server, version 1.5. With this release, CLC bio is making a major push into epigenomics by supporting chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing (ChIP-seq) analysis.

Cluster support for short and long read assembly

Mon, 18 May 2009 14:58:00 +0200

Due to many requests from customers and potential customers, we have today published a Perl script example on how to distribute our CLC NGS Cell high-speed reference assembly on a multi-node computer cluster to achieve close to linear speed-up of the assembly process.

CLC bio's enterprise platform wins award at Bio-IT World Expo

Fri, 1 May 2009 00:59:00 +0200

CLC bio's enterprise platform for Next Generation Sequencing data analysis, CLC Genomics Server, has just been awarded the �Best of Show� prize at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo 2009 - an award judged by a team of Bio-IT World magazine editors and leading industry experts.

Licenses NOT out of stock at CLC bio

Thu, 2 Apr 2009 10:00:00 +0200

Yesterday, we published a story that our licenses had run out of stock due to overwhelming demand. That was an April Fools' prank - we have our own license generator and no Russian entities are involved in that process...

CLC bio discusses Digital Gene Expression in Nature

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 13:51:00 +0100

Could it be only a matter of time before all gene-expression analysis goes digital? Nathan Blow explores this interesting subject in a recent Technology Feature in Nature.

The Einstein Center for Epigenomics, of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Signs Site License Agreement with CLC bio

Mon, 2 Mar 2009 13:11:00 +0100

The Einstein Center for Epigenomics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York, has entered into an agreement with CLC bio to put the company's full suite of bioinformatics tools into the hands of epigenomics researchers and other investigators at the College. The suite includes CLC bio's premier solutions for handling high-throughput sequencing data, CLC Genomics Workbench and CLC Genomics Server.

Enterprise Solution for Next Generation Sequencing data analysis

Mon, 9 Feb 2009 17:51:00 +0100

We just launched our new enterprise level product line, consisting of CLC Science Server and CLC Genomics Server.

With CLC Genomics Server, we releases the world's first user-friendly, cross-platform, three-tier enterprise solution with high-performance computing based analysis of Next Generation Sequencing data. The enterprise solution consists of CLC bio's workbench clients and web clients for the individual users, a database for data management, and a powerful server for carrying out heavy calculations and integrating with the customer's own or 3rd party tools.

We launched our largest software update to date including Gene Expression analyses

Thu, 5 Feb 2009 15:19:00 +0100

We just launched major updates to all our workbenches, resulting in the largest software update in the company's history. In addition to a wide range of new features and improvements within sequence analysis, our two top software products CLC Main Workbench and CLC Genomics Workbench now support a full workflow in the analysis of both digital- and analogue gene expression, such as single-color microarray gene expression.

CLC bio bridges digital and analogue gene expression with the new version of CLC Genomics Workbench

Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:08:00 +0100

We have just released version 3.0 of our highly popular solution for analyzing and visualizing Next Generation Sequencing data, CLC Genomics Workbench. The new version is crammed with new and powerful features, like digital gene expression, expression analysis of micro arrays and RNA-seq data � and an overhauled long reads assembler which is up to 15 times faster than the previous version!

Release of CLC NGS Cell 2.0

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 11:08:00 +0100

CLC bio today released a major upgrade to CLC NGS Cell, our command-line based high-performance computing package for analysis of Next Generation Sequencing data from Illumina Genome Analyzer, Roche/454, SOLiD, and Helicos.

CLC NGS Cell runs on both Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X platforms, and is the most flexible and powerful NGS sequence assembly software in the market - among others because it in benchmarks tests has proved to be 10 to 20 times faster than the second-fastest NGS software.

CLC bio Succeeds in Accelerating Life Science Research

Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:30:18 +0100

CLC bio had a breakthrough year in 2008 and is looking to continue along the same positive path in 2009. One of the major milestones in 2008 was the release of CLC bio's innovative solution for analyzing Next Generation Sequencing data, CLC Genomics Workbench, which is very popular and already the best selling software solution by CLC bio. The success of this solution is also apparent when looking at the fact that CLC bio crossed the magic line of more than 1 million downloads for all their software packages.

Overview of High-Throughput Sequencing platforms

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:13:00 +0100

It can be quite overwhelming to keep oneself updated with the newest technological innovations in the field of High-Throughput Sequencing. Which machines can do what - for example do you know which machines that can handle paired end data? Or has the best yield per hour?

Did dinosaurs live when your sequence analysis software was written?

Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:11:00 +0100

Let's be honest here: The old dinosaurs of sequence analysis software have neglected updates and new features for a looooooooong time... Perhaps like the dinosaurs, they cannot adapt? Maybe it's a sign of going extinct soon?

One million scientists can't be wrong

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:07:19 +0100

This time 3 years ago we have had our free software for basic bioinformatics out in 4 months and had roughly 5 000 downloads total. And minutes ago today, Monday November 10th, we surpassed a major milestone with one million downloads!

CLC bio Signs Strategic Collaborative Agreement with J. Craig Venter Institute

Thu, 9 Oct 2008 10:56:00 +0200

CLC bio announced today an agreement with the J. Craig Venter Institute, a not-for profit genomic-focused research institute. The accord consists of a multi-year site license for the entire CLC bio bioinformatics suite of products. The goal is to implement CLC bio's enterprise solution as a scientific platform across all JCVI sites. This enterprise solution will provide different research projects at JCVI with a coherent integration layer and a standardized way of developing custom software and specialized algorithms.

CLC bio Partners with Illumina to Provide Next Generation Sequencing Analysis Technology

Thu, 2 Oct 2008 12:54:00 +0200

Following an overwhelming reception of CLC Genomics Workbench 1.0, CLC bio is happy to announce the release of its next major version of their flagship product: CLC Genomics Workbench 2.0. Additionally, CLC bio has taken another important step in leading next generation sequencing data analysis by becoming an Illumina Connect partner. Illumina Connect is a bioinformatics software partnership program established by Illumina, Inc. to advance data integration and analysis.

First of 100 Arab Human Genomes Sequenced by Saudi Biosciences, Beijing Genomics Institute Shenzhen, and CLC bio

Tue, 9 Sep 2008 15:34:00 +0200

An international consortium consisting of Saudi Biosciences, Beijing Genomics Institute Shenzhen, and CLC bio have in a joint effort performed an initial sequencing and analysis of the first Arab human genome, as part of a large project to sequence 100 Arab human genomes to map the unique genetic variations of the Arab population.

CLC bio release white paper on the world's fastest Next Generation Sequencing assembly algorithm

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:15:00 +0200

CLC bio has just released a scientific white paper which confirms, that, in benchmarking tests, CLC bio’s new algorithm for assembly of Next Generation Sequencing data is the fastest one available. Not only is CLC bio’s algorithm considerably faster, but it also provides a better quality of the results, compared to other algorithms benchmarked in the white paper.

Beijing Genomics Institute signs global site license with CLC bio for Next Generation Sequencing software platform

Thu, 3 Jul 2008 13:02:00 +0200

Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) has signed a global site license agreement for CLC bio's Next Generation Sequencing solution, CLC Genomics Workbench. The site license covers all researchers at all BGI sites, both inside and outside of China.

Beijing Genomics Institute - at the forefront of Next Generation Sequencing

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 12:30:00 +0200

CLC bio is delighted to have Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) as a partner. The partnership has especially proven valuable within the area of Next Generation Sequencing. As CLC bio and BGI are going to upscale the collaboration with new initiatives in the soon future, CLC bio would like to make an introduction of BGI to all our users.

Dr. Ian Holmes joins CLC bio's scientific advisory board

Wed, 2 Jul 2008 11:34:00 +0200

It is great pleasure for us to welcome Dr. Ian Holmes, assistant professor at University California, Berkeley, to our scientific advisory board.

CLC bio moves to new Headquarters in Denmark

Tue, 1 Jul 2008 13:28:00 +0200

On July 1st, we moved our Danish headquarters to a newly built office building in the Katrinebjerg area - a fast growing Danish ICT community which also features high-tech companies Google, VMware, and B&O, to name a few - as well as the University of Aarhus and the new interdisciplinary nanoscience center, which is currently under construction.

CLC bio releases Next Generation Sequencing data analysis solution

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:23:00 +0200

CLC bio released the new Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) solution, CLC Genomics Workbench, which incorporates cutting-edge technology and algorithms, while also supporting and integrating with the rest of a typical NGS workflow.

CLC Genomics Workbench is the first comprehensive analysis package which can analyze and visualize data from all the major NGS platforms, such as SOLiD by Applied Biosystems, 454 GS flx by Roche Applied Science, Solexa by Illumina, and HeliScope by Helicos.

CLC bio partners with Accelrys

Tue, 6 May 2008 13:55:00 +0200

We are happy to announce our collaboration with Accelrys, who develops and commercializes scientific business intelligence software for the integration, mining, analysis, modeling and simulation, management and interactive reporting of scientific data.

The partnership brings many synergies to both Accelrys and CLC bio, and adds much value to our customers. In the first phase of the collaboration, CLC bio provides full integration of Accelrys' SciTegic Enterprise Server with CLC bio's advanced desktop-based sequence analysis software, as well as our Next Generation Sequencing and High Performance Computing solutions.

CLC bio to collaborate with Microsoft on integrating life science technology

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:48:00 +0200

At the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo in Boston, USA, CLC bio announced collaboration with Microsoft Corp. on integrating CLC bio's extensive bioinformatics solutions with Microsoft's software platform, for the benefit of companies, corporations, and institutions in the biotech, pharmaceutical, and life science sectors. CLC bio has already added support for Microsoft SQL Server in its database solution, CLC Bioinformatics Database, as well as support for Microsoft's high-performance computing solutions, Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 and Windows HPC Server 2008.

World Premiere of Next Generation Sequencing solution from CLC bio

Fri, 25 Apr 2008 08:40:00 +0200

On Monday, April 28, CLC bio will officially unveil their new Next Generation Sequencing solution, CLC Genomics Workbench, the first comprehensive analysis package which can analyze and visualize data from all the major Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) platforms, such as SOLiD from Applied Biosystems, 454 GS flx from Roche Applied Science, Solexa from Illumina, and HeliScope from Helicos. The World Premiere is at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo, April 28 - April 30, at the World Trade Center in Boston, USA.

CLC bio develops Digital Gene Expression software for developing the potato plant into a super-crop

Wed, 9 Apr 2008 13:50:00 +0200

CLC bio, several prominent Danish research institutions, and three crop-enhancing companies have joined forces in a project which aims to develop potatoes into a high-efficient, low-maintenance and multipurpose crop, which cannot only be used for animal and human food, but also for energy and chemical production, like biofuel and starch. The project will make extensive use of Next Generation Sequencing technology and Digital Gene Expression - also known as Tag-based Transcriptomics - to generate the knowledge for developing next generation crops.

CLC bio and University of Copenhagen Sign Site License Agreement

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:29:00 +0100

CLC bio and Department of Biology, Faculty of Science at University of Copenhagen, have signed a site license agreement for CLC bio's premier bioinformatics software solution, CLC Combined Workbench, in combination with CLC bio's Educational Suite. The deal runs for five years and is for several hundred seats, giving every researcher, student and teacher access to the software at all times.

Goodbye CLC Free Workbench - hello CLC Sequence Viewer

Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:58:00 +0100

Our very first application, CLC Free Workbench, which came out in the summer of 2005 is now the subject of a name change. From this day forward CLC Free Workbench will be known as CLC Sequence Viewer. It's still the same software and we haven't removed any of the features and have no plans to do so.

CLC bio tests Next Generation Sequencing solution on South African tuberculosis data

Tue, 12 Feb 2008 14:54:00 +0100

CLC bio has joined forces with the first center for High Throughput DNA Sequencing in Africa, Inqaba Biotechnical Industries (Pty) Ltd., in an effort to help fight tuberculosis on the African continent. Together CLC bio and inqaba biotec will assemble and analyze data from multiple tuberculosis strains, sequenced on inqaba biotec's Genome Sequencer FLX system.

CLC bio and Danish research institutions establish next generation sequencing network

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:02:00 +0100

CLC bio and several prominent Danish research institutions have established SEQNET - a national network for developing a unique software platform for the analysis of data from the next generation sequencing technologies. The platform will integrate groundbreaking bioinformatics algorithms with a user-friendly and graphical user interface.

CLC bio provides bioinformatics educational solutions to Andhra University and 25 affiliated colleges

Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:33:00 +0100

CLC bio announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding at an official ceremony at Andhra University, one of the most prestigious universities in India. Under the agreement, Andhra University and 25 affiliated post graduate colleges will implement CLC bio's educational solutions as an integrated part of their curriculum.

CLC bio provides bioinformatics solution for vaccine target development to ACE BioSciences

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:07:00 +0100

ACE BioSciences, an emerging pharmaceutical company focused on developing novel protein-based vaccines and antibodies to address infectious diseases, and CLC bio, the world's leading bioinformatics solutions provider, today announced a collaborative bioinformatics agreement.

CLC bio accelerates biomedical research with new RNA sequence analysis software

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 14:45:00 +0100

CLC bio announced the release of version 2.0 of CLC RNA Workbench. Among a wide variety of new features, this new release brings user-friendly versions of partition function calculation for RNA secondary structure and minimum energy free scanning - functions previously only available through highly advanced scripting, are now available through a graphical interface for everyone working with RNA research.

RNA - Partition function

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:20:00 +0100

If you are analyzing RNA structures, you will be thrilled to see our implementation of the secondary structure partition function.

Searching your data

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:17:00 +0100

Have you ever been looking for a sequence that you know should be on your computer, but you just don't know where it is?

Assembly of sequencing data

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 15:11:00 +0100

With a speed-up of more than 400%, assembly has never been faster; and with a bunch of improvements of editing and conflict handling, it has never been easier.

Easier cloning

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 14:45:00 +0100

Out of the many improvements and new features a few are particularly worth mentioning. It is now significantly simpler and more intuitive to perform in silico cloning.

New workbenches released - packed with new features

Thu, 6 Dec 2007 15:00:00 +0100

Today we have released new versions of all our workbenches. The list of new features is longer than any previous release, and that means a lot of good and helpful improvements in store for our users!

Increase your productivity with our new integrable database solution

Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:35:00 +0100

Today we have released CLC Bioinformatics Database. This powerful and versatile database solution enables research organizations, from small university departments and clinical labs to large biotech and pharmaceutical companies, to maximize their potential, through increased productivity.

CLC bio customized software supports Abcam's monoclonal development capability

Tue, 6 Nov 2007 15:11:00 +0100

CLC bio, the premier bioinformatics solution provider, and Abcam, the world-leading research antibody supplier, today announced that CLC bio has met the first important milestone of the two companies' collaboration.

CLC bio solves bioinformatics data management challenges with release of database solution

Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:41:00 +0200

This powerful and versatile database solution enables users of CLC bio's DNA, RNA, and protein sequence analysis software to store and work on their sequence data in a central, shared, and secure relational database.

Come and meet us in the Autumn

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:31:00 +0200

In the coming months we'll be attending different meetings and conferences all over the world, where you are most welcome to come and meet us - and get a demonstration of the products relevant to you.

PhD Scholarships at the IT University of Copenhagen on CLC bio project

Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:13:00 +0200

CLC bio, University of Aarhus and the IT University of Copenhagen invites applicants for two PhD scholarships within the area of distributed software architectures, ubiquitous computing systems, interaction design, and collaborative computing.

Bioinformatics solution provider CLC bio expands with UK office

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:12:00 +0200

The world's leading full-service bioinformatics solution provider, CLC bio, continues to expand its global presence by opening a sales office in Nottingham, UK, to complement Lightwave Scientific Ltd - CLC bio's UK reseller since early 2006

Impressive performance per dollar with CLC Bioinformatics Cell 2.0 from CLC bio

Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:57:00 +0200

With the release of CLC Bioinformatics Cell 2.0, the world's leading bioinformatics solution provider, CLC bio, raises the bar significantly in terms of performance per dollar in high-performance bioinformatics.

Come and meet us in September!

Wed, 8 Aug 2007 15:03:00 +0200

Accelerated version of Sean Eddy's HMMER algorithm released

Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:57:00 +0200

Our implementation of HMMER runs on CLC Bioinformatics Cell, which uses innovative SIMD technology to unleash already existing powers in the computer processor to accelerate HMMER 25 times. Thus searches previously taking more than 3 hours can be done in less than 10 minutes.

CLC bio releases Molecular Diagnostics Solution

Thu, 12 Jul 2007 13:53:00 +0200

CLC bio just released a molecular diagnostics solution for Multilocus Sequence Typing (MLST). MLST is a portable and precise state-of-the-art technique for typing bacteria and yeast isolates.

CLC bio's solutions fully compatible with Windows Vista and upcoming Mac OS X Leopard

Thu, 5 Jul 2007 11:08:00 +0200

CLC bio has once again proven their commitment to delivering true cross-platform software and regular updates with new and improved features.

CLC bio funds further acceleration of bioinformatics product development

Tue, 3 Jul 2007 16:33:00 +0200

We're proud to announce that we have entered an agreement, which ensures a significant amount of additional financing from local Danish private investors to secure adequate resources and expertise to continue developing ground-breaking end-to-end bioinformatics solutions.

CLC bio joins the RNA revolution

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 15:58:00 +0200

CLC bio has just released major updates to their popular family of bioinformatics software workbenches, expanding the family with the brand new CLC RNA Workbench.

Pan-South American biological database project under way

Wed, 27 Jun 2007 13:44:00 +0200

The project of creating a South American biological database manifested itself with a recent inaugural meeting in Ecuador, where universities and government agencies from various South American countries, as well as bioinformatics solution providers CLC bio, participated.

CLC bio and Beijing Genomics Institute challenge vast volumes of bioinformatics data

Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:43:00 +0200

A global leader within bioinformatics and genomics, Beijing Genomics Institute, has joined forces with the world's leading bioinformatics solution provider, CLC bio, and genomics solutions experts, SD Genomics.

CLC bio and University of Aarhus Sign Site License Agreement

Tue, 5 Jun 2007 14:50:00 +0200

CLC bio and the Department of Molecular Biology, University of Aarhus, have signed a site license agreement for CLC bio's premier bioinformatics software solution, CLC Combined Workbench.

CLC Education Solutions

Mon, 4 Jun 2007 08:54:00 +0200

We have launched two different concepts to help people get a better understanding of bioinformatics and our solutions.

Invited to initial meeting on South American Gene Bank

Thu, 31 May 2007 17:29:00 +0200

The countries of South America have an ambition to create their own gene bank. These days an initial meeting is taking place to agree on the basis of this project - and we're present to inspire and help.

Best of show finalist!

Thu, 3 May 2007 15:07:00 +0200

CLC Bioinformatics Cell was selected as a finalist in the prestigious Best of Show competition at the Bio-IT World Conference & Expo. We are honored to be among the finalists after being selected by over 100 scientists among other quality products.

CLC bio joins $2.5M research project on HIV, bird flu, and other RNA-based diseases

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 13:28:00 +0200

CLC bio, the IT University of Copenhagen, and the Department of Molecular Biology at the interdisciplinary nano science centre (iNANO) of University of Aarhus are proud to announce a ground-breaking research project.

CLC Bioinformatics Cell nominated for best in show at Bio-IT World conference.

Fri, 27 Apr 2007 12:11:00 +0200

Cambridge Healthtech Institute's Bio-IT World, the industry's premier B-to-B publication addressing the technologies driving discovery, development and clinical trials, today announced the finalists of their Bio-IT World Conference & Expo Best of Show Awards.

BioIT Alliance to Deliver New Tools for Personalized Medicine

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 14:34:00 +0200

As announced in January, CLC bio is a part of Microsoft's BioIT Alliance, which is a cross-industry group founded to help make personalized medicine a reality.

Come and meet us!

Thu, 8 Mar 2007 14:31:00 +0100

High-performance bioinformatics without any hassles

Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:00:00 +0100

CLC bio today announced the release of an innovative product to the scientific community which will enable users to transform their ordinary Intel- or AMD-based workstation computers to super-computing units.

CLC bio collaborating with Apple

Thu, 8 Feb 2007 13:33:00 +0100

Here at CLC bio we're proud to announce a collaboration with Apple to deliver the best desktop-based bioinformatics solutions in the market. CLC bio has just been accepted as an official Apple Proprietary Solution Provider.

CLC bio joins Microsoft in the BioIT Alliance

Thu, 25 Jan 2007 13:51:00 +0100

We have joined the BioIT Alliance which was formed by Microsoft in 2006. The BioIT Alliance is a cross-industry group which unites the pharmaceutical, biotech, hardware and software industries.

1st CLC bio Amazonia Bioinformatics Meeting

Tue, 9 Jan 2007 10:06:00 +0100

CLC bio has been invited by five Brazilian governmental organizations and six Brazilian academic institutions to be the exclusive speakers and trainers at a three-day bioinformatics meeting this March at Porto Velho, Brazil.

Plug-ins and Software Developer Kit released

Mon, 18 Dec 2006 16:10:00 +0100

We have released updates to all workbenches today which enables the use of plug-ins. We have also released a Software Developer Kit so users can make their own plug-ins for CLC bio's workbenches.

Significant software updates released

Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:49:00 +0100

Today we have released significant updates to all our workbenches. The programs work a lot smoother and has better memory management - along with a number of features added and bugs fixed.

Plug-in competition was highly successful

Fri, 17 Nov 2006 15:51:00 +0100

On November 2nd, we launched a competition to all users, where they could suggest a plug-in and win either a CLC Protein Workbench or a CLC Gene Workbench.

Expanding our product line Kapelan's 1D Gel Analysis Software

Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:59:00 +0100

CLC bio and Kapelan Bio-Imaging are pleased to announce the formation of a business partnership, spanning from immediate collaboration on sales, marketing and distribution to future collaboration.

Software para Bio-informatica...!?

Mon, 13 Nov 2006 14:55:00 +0100

As the dedicated visitor probably has noticed, our home page has been expanded with a Brazilian part. Due to CLC bio's continuous growth in the South American part of the world a new representative has been employed in Brazil. We are happy to have Mr. Guilherme de Souza Lima Brito among us!

Expanding our product line with Molegro's drug discovery software

Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:15:00 +0200

CLC bio and Molegro are pleased to announce the formation of a business partnership, spanning from immediate collaboration on sales, marketing and distribution to future collaboration on data integration and certain areas of product development.

Gene Workbench makes laboratory work processes easier

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 13:31:00 +0200

The German life science company BioGlobe has recently equipped their lab with CLC Gene Workbench software for doing molecular diagnostics, DNA sequencing, SNP genotyping as well as qualitative and quantitative RNA analysis.

Come and meet us!

Tue, 29 Aug 2006 11:20:00 +0200

CLC bio will be present at a lot of events this autumn, and this gives all attendees a splendid opportunity to get a personal demo of our soft- and hardware. We also find it very rewarding to talk to our excisting users - so please come and meet us!

NASA Chooses Sequencing Software from CLC bio

Fri, 21 Jul 2006 13:42:00 +0200

The Exobiology Branch of the NASA Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California, has chosen bioinformatics software from CLC bio for analyzing sequencing data which revolves around hypersaline microbial mat systems that are found worldwide in exotic locations such as Baja, Mexico, and Solar Lake, Egypt, to name a few.

Major product updates released

Thu, 6 Jul 2006 13:35:00 +0200

We are proud to present major upgrades of all four of our bioinformatics workbeches. Other than adding a lot of new features, we have updated the look of all our workbenches, including a makeover of almost all icons.

Global business partner network

Wed, 5 Jul 2006 12:36:00 +0200

CLC bio's global network is growing rapidly, and we're constantly adding new resellers from all parts of the world. We have also introduced our first official bioinformatics partner, and have more to be added soon.

Major updates coming very soon

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:36:00 +0200

We have good news for you: In less than three weeks, we will release major new upgrades of all our programs. The graphical layout is changed to a more platform-neutral look, and all programs are expanded with even more bioinformatics analyses.

Founders of CLC bio receive prestigious Science Park Award

Wed, 31 May 2006 12:10:00 +0200

On May 31st the founders of CLC bio, Thomas Knudsen (Chief Executive Officer) and Bjarne Knudsen (Chief Scientific Officer), received the prestigious Science Park Award 2006 from Science Park Aarhus.

Sales partners wanted!

Mon, 29 May 2006 10:40:00 +0200

Are you or your company interested in being a part-time or a full-time reseller, sales agent, or sales consultant for CLC bio?

CLC bio at the ASM in Florida

Thu, 11 May 2006 20:58:00 +0200

The American Society for Microbiology will hold its 106th General Meeting in the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida from May 21-25, and CLC bio will be present. You can find us in hall A2-A3, at stand number 256.

Spreading our knowledge

Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:37:00 +0200

It is part of our philosophy to spread our knowledge about bioinformatics. One of our means of accomplishing this, is the publication of short-form papers on well-defined bioinformatics subjects - now licensed for free copying and distribution under Creative Commons!

Product updates released

Wed, 19 Apr 2006 14:57:00 +0200

We have just released updates to each of our four workbenches. A lot of our known issues have been solved as well as adding some new features with this release. The new versions are ready and waiting in the download section!

Hardware-accelerated bioinformatics

Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:41:00 +0200

How about a cost-efficient, easy to use, high-performance bioinformatics hardware solution? All you need to do is to plug in a USB cable - power up - and you're good to go!

CLC at ECCMID in Nice

Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:58:00 +0200

CLC bio was present at this year's European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases in Nice, France from April 1 to 4.

Four new software releases from CLC bio

Wed, 15 Mar 2006 16:26:00 +0100

CLC bio now provides a full range of high quality bioinformatics tools for use by biochemistry and molecular biology lab work.

Support of Intel-based Macs

Fri, 10 Mar 2006 11:45:00 +0100

As the first bioinformatics company in the world, we're happy to report to all our users that all our programs are Universal applications, and thereby supporting Apple's new Intel-based computers!

10000 workbench users

Thu, 9 Mar 2006 20:11:00 +0100

Free workbenches for everyone! Today we passed another milestone with the 10000th workbench user!

CLC bio announces new website and new logo

Thu, 9 Mar 2006 12:50:00 +0100

As always things are moving fast here at CLC bio. We have just released a new website which will take us to new levels in terms of content as well as usability. And we also think it looks great!

New releases: CLC Protein Workbench 1.2 and CLC Free Workbench 2.2

Thu, 9 Feb 2006 10:53:00 +0100

Today CLC bio released CLC Protein Workbench 1.2 and CLC Free Workbench for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

Quick competition was successful

Fri, 3 Feb 2006 09:50:00 +0100

Last week, on January 31st, we launched a quick competition to all users who have downloaded the CLC Protein Workbench demo and also have signed up to receive further information from CLC bio.

New pricing policy

Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:45:00 +0100

We have simplified our pricing structure: Now, we only have one price per type of license, instead of having both a 1st license price and a 2nd license price.

CLC Protein Workbench 1.1 released

Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:57:00 +0100

Today CLC bio released CLC Protein Workbench 1.1 for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

CLC Free Workbench 2.1 released

Fri, 23 Dec 2005 14:37:00 +0100

Today CLC bio released CLC Free Workbench 2.1 for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

CLC Protein Workbench 1.0 released

Fri, 11 Nov 2005 07:55:00 +0100

Today CLC bio released CLC Protein Workbench 1.0 - a desktop program featuring a number of unique and innovative bioinformatics tools for supporting advanced biochemistry lab research.

CLC Free Workbench 2.0 released

Fri, 11 Nov 2005 07:47:00 +0100

Today CLC bio released CLC Free Workbench 2.0 for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux. This application expands the previous versions of CLC Free Workbench with new bioinformatics features, improves data management facilities, and improved graphical sequence- and alignment viewers.

CLC bio in San Francisco

Wed, 9 Nov 2005 09:31:00 +0100

CLC bio will be present at The American Society for Cell Biology's annual meeting, which is taking place December 10-14 in San Francisco. You can find CLC bio at booth number 1345 at the Moscone Center.

CLC Free Workbench: Now more than 3000 users in more than 80 countries

Fri, 28 Oct 2005 09:27:00 +0200

Since our launch of CLC Free Workbench four months ago, the interest for the program has been ever increasing. Compared to our expectations, we now have more than three times as many users!

Mr. Peter Johannes Steffensen achieves his PhD in Mathematics

Fri, 23 Sep 2005 09:25:00 +0200

Today, Mr. Peter Johannes Steffensen, holding a Master's degree in mathematics, succesfully defended his PhD with the title "Irreducible representations of the Witt-Jacobson Lie algebra of rank 2" at the University of Aarhus.

CLC Free Workbench 1.01 Released

Wed, 21 Sep 2005 09:23:00 +0200

Today CLC bio released CLC Free Workbench 1.01 for Windows, MacOS X and Linux. In response to user feedback received, we have included some minor program corrections in CLC Free Workbench 1.01.

CLC Free Workbench: Now users in more than 60 countries

Fri, 16 Sep 2005 09:24:00 +0200

Today it is 2� months since the launch of the first CLC Free Workbench. The launch has been an overwhelming success, and the program is now being used by scientists and students in more than 60 countries all over the world.

Dr. Jannick Dyrl�v Bendtsen joins CLC bio

Thu, 1 Sep 2005 09:19:00 +0200

Today Dr. Jannick D. Bendtsen started at CLC bio as Product Manager for CLC Protein Workbench which will be release in November 2005.

CLC Free Workbench 1.0 Released

Wed, 24 Aug 2005 09:36:00 +0200

Today CLC bio released CLC Free Workbench 1.0 for Windows, MacOS X and Linux.

Dr. Roald Forsberg joins CLC bio

Mon, 15 Aug 2005 10:13:00 +0200

Today Dr. Roald Forsberg started at CLC bio as Product Manager for CLC Gene Workbench which will be released in March 2006.

Dr. Michael M. Miyamoto joins advisory board

Wed, 10 Aug 2005 10:12:00 +0200

Dr. Michael Miyamoto, Ph.D. in the Biological Sciences with an emphasis in Ecology and Evolution, has joined CLC bio's Advisory Board.

CLC Free Workbench 0.9beta released

Fri, 1 Jul 2005 10:45:00 +0200

Today CLC bio released CLC Free Workbench 0.9 beta for Windows, MacOS X and Linux. The program is a test version of CLC Free Workbench which will be relased in August 2005.