Summary: Dotmatics has acquired Virscidian, a provider of automated chromatography and mass spectrometry data processing solutions, to strengthen its lab workflow automation and scientific intelligence platform for multimodal R&D.
Takeaways:
- Enhanced Workflow Automation: The acquisition of Virscidian enables Dotmatics to further automate complex laboratory workflows, integrating Virscidian’s Analytical Studio with Dotmatics’ Luma platform for streamlined data processing.
- AI-Ready Data Processing: Virscidian’s data analysis algorithms generate high-quality, AI/ML-ready results for small molecule research, complementing Dotmatics’ existing solutions for large molecule R&D.
- Comprehensive Scientific Intelligence Platform: Combining Virscidian’s capabilities with Dotmatics’ scientific software portfolio empowers scientists to optimize experimental designs and efficiently manage large datasets, driving innovation in drug discovery and beyond.
Dotmatics, a provider in R&D scientific software connecting science, data, and decision-making, announced the acquisition of Virscidian, a specialized provider of analytical chemistry solutions and automated chromatography and mass spectrometry data processing.
Automating Lab Workflows
This acquisition, Dotmatics’ 15th to date, strengthens Dotmatics’ ability to automate laboratory data workflows for experiments and complements its work to provide scientists with best-in-class scientific software that integrate with a comprehensive Scientific Intelligence Platform for multimodal scientific research and development.
Virscidian automates complex laboratory workflows using their powerful data analysis algorithms in conjunction with an open architecture. Virscidian’s Analytical Studio produces high-fidelity, high-quality AI/ML ready results for small molecule research. The addition of Virscidian’s Analytical Studio to Dotmatics’ portfolio enhances support for high-throughput experimental design, high-throughput purification, sample quality control, and other high content assays.
“Virscidian’s expertise in chromatography and mass spectrometry workflows and analytics for small molecule scientific discovery complements the solutions we offer through Protein Metrics for large molecule R&D,” says Thomas Swalla, CEO of Dotmatics. “And now we can extend Virscidian’s capabilities by integrating it with Dotmatics Luma, which is helping our customers streamline complex workflows and enhance the accuracy and speed of their research through an AI-enabled lab-in-a-loop.”
Virscidian Solutions for Lab Informatics
Virscidian Analytical Studio’s key modules—AS-Professional, AS-Experiment Builder, AS-Fraction Mapper, and AS-Sample Management Services—integrate with internal and third-party informatics environments, allowing scientists to optimize experimental designs, manage large datasets, and efficiently automate complex workflows.
“Joining Dotmatics represents an exciting new chapter for Virscidian,” says Joseph Simpkins, founder and president of Virscidian. “We’ve built a powerful, flexible platform for laboratory informatics, and by combining it with Dotmatics’ existing tools, we can offer a more comprehensive solution to our customers. Together, we will enable scientists to unlock new possibilities in drug discovery and beyond.”
With this acquisition, Dotmatics builds on its strategy of offering best-in-class scientific applications built by scientists for scientists that work in harmony with an AI-native multimodal scientific intelligence platform, Luma. Dotmatics Luma helps scientists and administrators unify and analyze large volumes of data for better decision-making. It is an out-of-the-box, low-code SaaS platform that flexibly aggregates all relevant data into intelligent data structures enabling clean, reliable data analysis, and paves the way for meta-analysis and AI & ML-based algorithms.
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