MADISON, Wisconsin – August 2, 2017 – DNASTAR® has appointed SHIPS Bioscience as a distributor of its DNA, RNA and protein sequence analysis software in Japan, effective immediately. SHIPS Bioscience is a new company devoted to meeting the life science needs of researchers throughout Japan primarily through the distribution and support of DNASTAR software.   […]

MADISON, Wisconsin – March 3, 2017 – DNASTAR® announced the release of Lasergene 14.1 today, which includes a broad range of improvements in DNA, RNA and protein sequence and structure prediction and analysis. The current release includes improvements to each of the major software platforms in Lasergene – Molecular Biology, Genomics and Structural Biology – […]

MADISON, Wisconsin – September 30, 2016 – DNASTAR® announced the release of Lasergene 14 today, which includes a broad range of improvements in DNA, RNA and protein sequence and structure prediction and analysis.  Lasergene 14 includes three brand new applications: GenVision Pro, a comprehensive genome browser; NovaDock, a protein-protein docking application; and NovaFold Antibody, a […]

DNASTAR today announced that Inhibrx has entered into an agreement supporting an organization-wide site license of DNASTAR Lasergene software. This license provides access to DNASTAR software for all employees of Inhibrx.   John Timmer Ph.D., the Research Director of Inhibrx commented, “After using Lasergene software in-house to meet our day to day sequence analysis needs, […]

DNASTAR announced the release of Lasergene 13 today, which significantly advances scientists’ ability to perform RNA research on model and non-model organisms on standard desktop computers. Significant software enhancements include the ability to perform de novo transcriptome assembly of RNA data for any size project on a desktop computer, automatic mRNA annotation from one or […]

DNASTAR has appointed Pure Health Medical Supplies Trading Company FZE (Purehealth) as a distributor of its molecular biology software in the Middle East, effective immediately.  Purehealth is a company that provides a broad range of products and services to improve human health.  With headquarters in Dubai, Purehealth serves customers and will represent DNASTAR in Bahrain, Egypt, […]

MADISON, Wisconsin – September 17, 2015 – An exhaustive comparison of next generation sequencing (NGS) aligners and variant callers across a wide range of samples indicates that the DNASTAR software achieves the highest accuracy. Comparisons were made with other commercial software from CLC Bio and Biomatters as well as with the open-source BWA and GATK […]

DNASTAR has appointed Biotech del Norte as a distributor of its DNA, RNA and protein sequence analysis software in Mexico, effective immediately. Biotech del Norte is a company meeting the life science needs of researchers throughout Mexico by providing a wide range of products and services related to DNA sequencing and similar fields.   Luis Borrego, […]

MADISON, Wisconsin – July 23, 2015 – DNASTAR announced the release of NovaFold 12.3 today, with significant enhancements to the world-leading NovaFold protein structure prediction software.  Based on I-TASSER, the software that has won the Critical Assessment of protein Structure Prediction (CASP) competition for the past 10 years, NovaFold 12.3 can be run internally or on […]

MADISON, Wisconsin – February 6, 2015 – DNASTAR® announced the release of Lasergene 12.2 today, with significant improvements in the accuracy of next-generation sequence assembly and variant calling.  The company issued a white paper comparing results of its exome and gene panel sequence assembly and variant calling capabilities with a leading open-source software offering.  The […]