Did you know that DNASTAR has been pioneering software solutions for life scientists since the early 1980’s?
Here’s a look back at some highlights from the last four decades in science and technology.
The World Health Organization (WHO) declares smallpox eradicated.
Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is developed by surfing aficionado, Dr. Kary Mullis at the Cetus Corporation in CA, USA. Dr. Mullis goes on to win a Nobel Prize for this invention in 1993.
DNASTAR was founded in the E. coli lab of Dr. Fred Blattner, Professor of Genetics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Release of the Macintosh 128k, the first mass-market personal computer to feature a GUI, built-in screen, and a mouse.
DNASTAR is trademarked and the company releases software for the “SeqEasy” sequencer digitizer.
EditSeq becomes DNASTAR’s sequence analysis application.
The Human Genome Project is launched, and the first gene therapy case takes place at the National Institutes of Health, who treated 4-year-old Ashanti DeSilva for a severe immune system deficiency.
FlavrSavr tomatoes are the first GMO food to be approved by the FDA.
At the Roslin Institute in Scotland, Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal to be cloned. This photo shows Dolly with Professor Sir Ian Wilmut, who led the research which produced her. (Photo courtesy of the Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK.)
The Human Genome Project sequences their first human chromosome, Chromosome 22.
The mouse is the first mammal to have its entire genome sequenced.
The United States Supreme Court rules that naturally-occurring DNA cannot be patented.
DNASTAR releases NovaFold, a highly accurate predictor of 3D protein structure based on the international award-winning I-TASSER algorithm.
DNASTAR celebrates its 35th anniversary.
As of 2019, DNASTAR software had been cited in over 80,000 peer reviewed journals.
COVID pandemic begins and the genome of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is sequenced. DNASTAR provides over 1,000 free licenses of Lasergene to users around the world to allow them to perform sequence analysis at home during the pandemic.
Support for Oxford Nanopore and PacBio long read sequence assembly is added to Lasergene Genomics.
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