A new Applied family

Chasing up their recent announcement of half-completion of their new international CRM system, Applied Biosystems today announced the launch of a new software development community, with a mission statement dedicated to “encouraging innovation in life science research software applications.”

As part of the initiative, Applied Biosystems will provide life scientists and ISVs open access to its genetic analysis data file format and a data file converter in hopes of facilitating the development of further bioinformatics applications on Applied Biosystems’ genetic analyzers and PCR sequence detection systems.

The new plan marks the latest collaboration between Applied Biosystems and ISVs directly or through organizations such as the BioIT Alliance. Along with the announcement, Applied representatives also stated that Geospiza had joined the new club with a just-produced tool that seeks to improve data analysis workflow and provide better sharing of research and discovery project data across workgroups using the software platform Geospiza Finch Suite.

Applied Biosystems is a life sciences technology provider focused on the following basic research, commercial research (pharmaceutical and biotechnology) and standardized testing markets. Applied Biosystems has an installed base of approximately 180,000 instrument systems in nearly 100 countries. Applied is an operation group of Applera Corporation.