Geospiza, the Seattle-based maker of software to support biological research, said today the University of Florida’s Interdisciplinary Center for Biotechnology Research has bought GeoSpiza’s FinchLab to help sort through data from next-generation gene sequencing tools. The university is a longtime customer, and first started using Geospiza’s products eight years ago. The privately-held company has been on a bit of a roll lately, including signing a partnership with San Diego-based Illumina (NASDAQ: [[ticker:ILMN]]) that will expose more customers to its software.
Author: Luke Timmerman
Luke is an award-winning journalist specializing in life sciences. He has served as national biotechnology editor for Xconomy and national biotechnology reporter for Bloomberg News. Luke got started covering life sciences at The Seattle Times, where he was the lead reporter on an investigation of doctors who leaked confidential information about clinical trials to investors. The story won the Scripps Howard National Journalism Award and several other national prizes. Luke holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and during the 2005-2006 academic year, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT.
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