Vendor:Biomatters Ltd.

Biomatters Ltd.

Type	Limited
Industry	Laboratory informatics
Headquarters	Level 2, 76 Anzac Ave., Auckland, New Zealand
Area served	Worldwide
Products	Products list Cheesecake Geneious
Website	Biomatters.com

Biomatters Ltd. develops and distributes laboratory informatics software, with a strong focus on the academic and business sides of the biological sciences.

History

Biomatters released Geneious in 2005.

Technology and products

Geneious

Geneious is a bioinformatics software solution with some LIMS-like features that manage sequence alignment, assembly, and analysis tasks in a variety of scientific fields.

Features

Product: Geneious

Sample, inventory, and data management Sample login and management? Sample tracking? Sample and/or result batching? Task and event scheduling? Option for manual result entry? Multiple data viewing methods? Y Data and trend analysis? Data and equipment sharing? Customizable fields and/or interface? Query capability? Y Import data? Internal file or data linking? External file or data linking? Y ELN support or integration? Export data to MS Excel? Raw data management? Data warehouse? Y Deadline control? Production control? Project and/or task management? Inventory management? Document creation and/or management? Y Case management? Workflow management? Y Specification management? Customer and supplier management? Billing management? Quality, security, and compliance Regulatory compliance? QA / QC functions? Performance evaluation? Audit trail? Chain of custody? Configurable roles and security? Data normalization? Data validation? Data encryption? Version control? Y Automatic data backup? Environmental monitoring? Reporting, barcoding, and printing Custom reporting? Report printing? Label support? Barcode support? Export to PDF? Y Export to MS Word? Export to HTML and/or XML? Y Fax integration? Email integration? Base functionality Administrator management? Y Modular? Instrument interfacing and management? Mobile device integration? Alarms and/or alerts? Work-related time tracking? Voice recognition system? External monitoring? Messaging? Multilingual? Network-capable? Web client or portal? Online or integrated help? Software as a service delivery model? Usage-based cost? Industries served biotechnology, life sciences

Pricing

Pricing information can be found on the Geneious website here and here.

Note: A single-user license allows a single named individual to use Geneious on up to three computers. A concurrent license allows the licensee to install Geneious on as many computers as they like on the same network, but limits the number of computers that can access Geneious at once to the number of licenses purchased. The 12-month license was discontinued by the company in the fall of 2012. Special prices are available for academics based in countries with annual GDP less than $2,000 U.S. per capita (excluding short, time-based licenses).

Geneious Price List License Type Perpetual license price Price to upgrade license to latest version Student Single user $395 $195 Academic/Government Single user $795 $395 Academic/Government Concurrent $1,995 $995 Commercial Single user $1,995 $995 Commercial Concurrent $3,995 $1,995

Demonstration videos and other media

The following demonstration videos are available for Geneious:

• Geneious Overview Webinar
• Using Geneious to Display High-Quality Sequencing Data from Challenging GC-rich Targets
• Geneiuos - Interesting Features in Geneious
• Geneious - Mapping, Coverage, and Variant Calling Using Geneious
• Geneious - Annotation Filtering
• Geneious - Automatic Annotation of Sequences
• Geneious - Workflows
• Geneious - Circular de Novo Assembly in Geneious
• Geneious - Ordering Primers from Eurofins Genomics within Geneious

External links

• Biomatters on YouTube