Vendor:Biomatters Ltd.

**Biomatters Ltd.**
Type	Limited
Industry	Laboratory informatics
Headquarters	Level 2, 18 Shortland St., Auckland, New Zealand
Number of locations	2
Area served	Worldwide
Products	Products list Geneious Biologics; ; Geneious Prime;
Subsidiaries	Biomatters, Inc.
Website	geneious.com
LinkedIn	https://www.linkedin.com/company/geneious/

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

History

Biomatters was founded in 2003^[1] and released Geneious in 2005.^[2]

In the fall of 2011, Biomatters opened its first offices in the United States "in response to growing customer demand."^[3]

In the fall of 2018, the company announced it would be changing the name of its Geneious product to Geneious Prime.^[2]

Awards

In 2009, Biomatters jointly won the University of Auckland Business School Entrepreneurs' Challenge, which awarded them a loan to expand operations overseas.^[4]

Biomatters was awarded the Microsoft Hi-Tech Emerging Company Award in May 2012.^[5]

Technology and products

Geneious Biologics and Prime

Geneious Biologics is a version of Geneious Prime that "consolidates data in a secure and shareable cloud environment, speeding up candidate selection and ensuring reproducibility."^[6]

Geneious Prime is a bioinformatics software solution with some LIMS-like features. The software manages sequence alignment, assembly, and analysis tasks in a variety of scientific fields.^[1]

Features

The following feature list(s) is/are derived solely from public, freely-available online information the vendor provides. A lack of a "Y" does not necessarily mean that the product doesn't have that feature. The lack of a "Y" could mean:

the vendor chose to not put relevant feature information online despite its existence in the product.
the vendor chooses to make the feature information available only to those who create an account or call/e-mail.
the feature information exists online to the public, but a URL could not be found to cite the existence of the feature.
the feature does not exist for the product.

A vendor's product may receive more confirmed features with the addition of more public information to the vendor's site and/or by providing a URL to a page or document that can act as a citation for the existence of the feature. Prospective buyers are highly recommended to contact the vendor directly to verify features as this list isn't authoritative, and product upgrades and changes happen rapidly in some cases.

Product: Geneious Prime

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^[7]
Data and trend analysis?	Y^[7]
Data and equipment sharing?	Y^[7]
Customizable fields and/or interface?
Query capability?	Y^[7]
Import data?	Y^[7]
Internal file or data linking?
External file or data linking?
ELN support or integration?
Export data to MS Excel?
Raw data management?
Data warehouse?
Deadline control?
Production control?
Project and/or task management?
Inventory management?
Document creation and/or management?
Case management?
Workflow management?	Y^[7]
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?
Automatic data backup?
Environmental monitoring?
Reporting, barcoding, and printing
Custom reporting?
Report printing?
Label support?
Barcode support?
Export to PDF?	Y^[8]
Export to MS Word?
Export to HTML and/or XML?
Fax integration?
Email integration?
Base functionality
Administrator management?
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, high-throughput sequencing

Pricing

Pricing information can be found on the Geneious website here.

Note: A personal license allows a single named individual to use Geneious on up to three computers. A group license allows multiple people to share a license.

Geneious Price List
License	Type	One-year subscription
Student	Personal	$200
Academic/Government	Personal	$525
Academic/Government	Group	$900 for 2 seats $2,250 for 5 seats $4,250 for 10 seats
Commercial	Personal	$1,750
Commercial	Group	$3,200 for 2 seats $8,000 for 5 seats $15,500 for 10 seats