Strand Life Sciences

Strand Life Sciences was founded in October 2000 by Professors Vijay Chandru, Ramesh Hariharan, Swami Manohar, and V. Vinay.{{Cite news |last=Krishnan |first=Raghu |title=Strand gets into personalised treatment market in US |url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/strand-gets-into-personalised-treatment-market-in-us-115100300641_1.html |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20190810201520/https://www.business-standard.com/article/companies/strand-gets-into-personalised-treatment-market-in-us-115100300641_1.html |archive-date=2019-08-10 |access-date=2025-01-17 |language=en}} It was registered as Strand Genomics, but was later renamed to Strand Life Sciences as it dealt with various other aspects of life sciences.{{Cite web |date=6 February 2013 |title=Strand Genomics is now Strand Life Sciences |url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/technology/strand-genomics-is-now-strand-life-sciences-105090201038_1.html |website=business-standard.com}} In August 2007, Strand and Agilent Technologies, Inc. entered an agreement in which Strand develops and supports Agilent's GeneSpring{{cite web|url=http://www.agilent.com/about/newsroom/presrel/2007/20aug-ca07049.html|title=Agilent – Agilent Technologies and Strand Life Sciences Announce GeneSpring Development Agreement|date=5 January 2017|work=agilent.com|accessdate=22 February 2017}} software which Agilent obtained through Silicon Genetics acquisition in August 2004.{{cite web|url=http://www.biodevicesbiz.com/newsArticle.asp?nId=84896&cId=275|title=Agilent Technologies to Acquire Silicon Genetics, Leading Provider of Life Science Informatics|work=biodevicesbiz.com|accessdate=22 February 2017}} In October 2010, Strand and Agilent renewed the agreement{{cite web|url=http://www.agilent.com/about/newsroom/presrel/2010/04oct-ca10065.html|title=Agilent – Agilent Technologies and Strand Team Up to Advance Integrated Biology Software Systems|date=4 October 2010|work=agilent.com|accessdate=22 February 2017}} for Strand to expand the scope of Agilent's GeneSpring across multiple life sciences disciplines.

• Strand NGS (formerly Avadis NGS) is a software platform for next-generation sequencing data analysis.{{Cite web |last=Levin |first=Jennifer |date=2014-07-07 |title=Avadis NGS Becomes Strand NGS With Version 2.0 Release {{!}} Fierce Biotech |url=https://www.fiercebiotech.com/it/avadis-ngs-becomes-strand-ngs-version-2-0-release |access-date=2025-01-17 |website=fiercebiotech.com |language=en}}
• GeneSpring GX (version 9.0.0 onwards), GeneSpring Workgroup (version 7.0.0 onwards), and Mass Profiler Pro are developed by Strand's R&D division in Bangalore.
• Avadis is a data mining and visualization platform.
• Sarchitect is a platform for modeling and predicting drug-relevant properties of molecules in silico.
• ArrayAssist was developed for Stratagene, Inc., based on the Avadis platform. The production was stopped after Stratagene was acquired by Agilent Technologies, Inc. in 2007.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}

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• [http://www.strandls.com/ Strand Life Sciences]

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