Tuesday, August 13, 2019

GraphPad Software Buys SnapGene

San Diego-based GraphPad, which develops graphing software for scientific graphing and analysis, has acquired SnapGene, a developer of bioinformatics software, the company announced this morning. GraphPad said that it has created a new company called Insightful Science as a part of the acquisition, which will become the parent company of SnapGene, Graphpad Prism, and the Geneious DNA data analysis solutions, Geneious Prime and Geneious Biologics. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced. SnapGene's foudner and Chief Scientist is Benjamin Glick. Insightful Science is led by CEO Thomas Swalla.

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