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Volume 2 - Number 19 | May 12, 2008

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In This Week's Issue

Insilicos Partners with LabKey, ISB to Port Proteomics Software Tools to Amazon’s Cloud

Don’t Call it Workflow: Accelrys, InforSense Tout Products as Business Intelligence Tools

Genostar Expands Deal with Biopharma Merial To Help Hunt Pathogenic Virulence Factors

BioInform’s Licensing Roundup: April’s Software Deals

BBSRC, DNAStar, Xennex, Japan Patent Office, University of Washington

NextGENe, HIV Data Browser, UCSC Genome Browser, Expressionist 5.0

Features

Silicon Valley Bio Incubator to Double Its Footprint as Demand From Startups Swells
Created in 2004, the San Jose BioCenter will add a 33,750-square-foot space on the first floor of the Edenvale Technology Park, whose second floor is home to the BioCenter’s existing 36,594-square-foot footprint. Construction is expected to begin in the fall.

At Incubation Assoc. Conference, Officials Tout Successes, Define Challenges, Pitfalls
The National Business Incubation Association held its 22nd International Conference on Business Incubation last week in San Antonio, Texas. BioRegion News presents a news roundup of select events.

The BRN Interview

N. American Incubators Gradually Nurture New Generation of Biotech Firms: NBIA
According to the National Business Incubation Association, 33 percent, or 72, of North America’s incubators can support at least one biotechnology startup, while 27 percent, or 59, could support medical device businesses; and 18 percent, or 39, plant-biotech businesses.

Deals and Doings

Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Senior Housing Properties Trust, HRPT Properties Trust, ChemGen, Terre Haute Economic Development Corp., ZymoGenetics, LAB Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Agilent Technologies

Around the Regions

California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, Iogen, Bingham Economic Development Corp., GlaxoSmithKline, Massachusetts State Senate, Oregon Economic Development Commission, York Stem Cell Research Initiative, New Jersey Economic Development Authority

BioRegion Newsmakers

James Barry, James Collins, George Daley, Patricia Donahoe, Lila Gierasch, Richard Goldsby, David Lederman, Jeffrey Leiden, David Scadden, Alan Smith, Lydia Villa-Komaroff, Phillip Zamore, Harvey Lodish, Daniel O'Day, Michael Onuscheck, Sean Moriarty, Jack Wheeler, Rick Jory, John Eckstein, Maggie Holben, Tom Roach, Lynn Taussig, Chris Brodie, Martin Tenniswood, JoEllen Welsh, Brenda Mauney Councill