Infotrieve® Acquires GenSys Software, Enters Electronic Laboratory Notebook Space
Infotrieve, Inc., a provider of content software technology and information services, today announced its acquisition of GenSys Software, Inc., provider of the GenSys/ELN™ electronic laboratory notebook for life sciences, chemistry, and other research-intensive industries. The GenSys/ELN will serve as the anchor for Infotrieve’s life sciences electronic research platform, which has been designed to collectively increase the value of organizational content and improve scientists’ existing workflow by enabling links from electronic laboratory notebooks to discovery tools, literature and scientific data, laboratory product information, and integrated retrieval capabilities for literature and laboratory products.
GenSys has served leading companies in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology, clinical testing, packaged foods, and consumer goods industries since 1998. Through the acquisition, Infotrieve will acquire ownership of the GenSys Electronic Laboratory Notebook (GenSys/ELN™) and ELN Platform for research and development, which was recently named ‘Top Data Management Product’ for the second year in a row by Scientific Computing & Instrumentation Magazine. Infotrieve will continue to enhance the GenSys/ELN™, while establishing new partnerships with leading chemistry and biology tools providers.
“The GenSys/ELN™ e-lab notebook application has raised the benchmark within the industry, providing customers with a solution that extends across multiple disciplines, can readily import data from a variety of applications and data sources, and provides the utmost protection for their intellectual property assets,” said Infotrieve President and Chief Executive Officer, Wes Crews. “In response to our customers’ need for an ELN that is scalable, open and flexible enough to work with third-party chemistry and biology tools, Infotrieve will position the GenSys/ELN™ to integrate with these types of applications already in use by our customers.”
“Infotrieve’s acquisition of GenSys supports our shared vision for combining content and software technology applications that facilitate the scientific research and development process,” added former GenSys President and Chief Executive Officer, Tom Williams, now Chief Technology Officer at Infotrieve. “Our customers will be the biggest benefactors of this acquisition with competitive advantages resulting from better discovery tools, more efficient workflows, quicker development cycles, and better IP protection.”
The GenSys/ELN™ provides scientists with a single access point for capturing experimental data and performing scientific tasks, whether using a tablet PC in the lab or from a computer at their desktop. Notable features include a test-refined user interface, a drag-and-drop notebook entry editor tool and stored stoichiometry formulas with relational updating capabilities. In addition, the GenSys/ELN™ provides enterprise-wide search capabilities, a discipline-neutral platform for laboratory data, compliance with the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 21 Part 11 regarding electronic records and electronic signatures, electronic entry audit trails, advanced levels of security and encryption, and an access control list (ACL) scheme for administrative control over user permissions. The GenSys/ELN™ was the first enterprise solution to receive the full endorsement of the Collaborative Notebook Systems Association (CENSA).
