Ocimum Bio Solutions

Ocimum Bisolutions, is a multi-national Biotechnology product development company and a contract research organization, head-quartered in Hyderabad, India and Houston, Texas. Ocimum focuses on genomics, LIMS, bioinformatics, computational biology, software engineering, sequencing, microarrays and contract research services to develop solutions for life sciences research.

History

Ocimum Bio Solutions was founded in August 2000 as a Delaware company by Anuradha Acharya, Subash Lingareddy, and Dr. Sujata Pammi. In 2001 it started its India Operations in Hyderabad. It started as a pure play bioinformatics company and slowly expanded its scope to adding wet lab capabilities and strengthened it through its multiple acquisitions.

Acquisitions

Ocimum acquired GD business of MWG Biotech in Germany in 2005, the Oligo business from Isogen Lifesciences in the Netherlands in 2006 and the genomics division of Gene Logic in Gaithersburg US in 2007. Ocimum declared bankruptcy on October 17, 2011 after failing to pay rent, suppliers and its own employees.

Proprietary Gene expression Databases

Ascenta Biomarker software

Gene Logic’s ASCENTA System can be used to qualify gene targets and potential biomarkers. Gene expression reference system can provide summarized, microarray expression data from diseased and normal tissue samples, organized into sample sets defined by relevant clinical parameters.

BioExpress System

The BioExpress System built in the early 2000s by Gene Logic and then acquired by Ocimum Biosolutions in 2007 is a genome-wide gene expression database with histopathology, clinical chemistry, hematology, treatment, follow-up and many other clinical details for over 22,000 clinically defined tissue, blood, and cell samples from human clinical studies and complementary animal models.

ToxExpress System

Kits

• Spoligotyping Kits - Molecular diagnostic kit for Tuberculosis
• H1N1 detection kit

Awards

• Ocimum is a Red Herring "Asia 100 Private Company"
• Deloitte Fast 50 India and Fast 500 Asia in 2008, 2009 and 2010.
• Ocimum Biosolutions named as "NASSCOM IT Innovator 2008" by NASSCOM.
• "Customer Value Enhancement Award" for Laboratory Information Management in India, at the 2012 Frost & Sullivan Indian Growth, Innovation & Leadership Awards.

See also

Genome Valley Mapmygenome.in