Premier biosoft

PREMIER Biosoft International
PREMIER Biosoft International (“PBI” for short) is a California, United States based bioinformatics company. The company specializes in developing software for use in genomics research. In addition to developing software products, the company offers assay design services and consultancy for bioinformatics projects.

Company Background
PREMIER Biosoft, established in 1994, was one of the earliest bioinformatics company, founded by Ms. Kay Brown with a mission to serve the life science research labs all over the world. The mission statement for PBI reads as follows: “Dedicated to producing cutting edge intuitive software for life scientists.” The company serves research labs, pharmaceuticals, core facilities and biotechnology companies with its products. The company's first product, Primer Premier, was authored over 12 years ago, for designing PCR assays.

Products & Services
After the launch of Primer Premier the company released SimVector, a plasmid drawing tool, and Array Designer, for designing microarray probes.

The trend in the PCR market was soon shifting towards a new and powerful technique called real time PCR. PREMIER Biosoft caught up early and authored Beacon Designer, supporting the most popular real time PCR chemistries The company later came out with a pathogen detection system called AlleleID with support for real time PCR and microarray probe design for designing cross species, species specific, intron-exon spanning assays and splice variant microarrays.

The company has ventured into proteomics and glycomics research with the launch of Xpression Primer (tagged primer design tool), Protein Networker (protein interaction studies) and SimGlycan (glycan mass spec identification tool). The company's latest offering, TMA Foresight, analyzes tissue microarray data.

Partnerships
Some well known names in the field of biotechnology research such as Bio-Rad laboratories, Stratagene, Biolegio, Proligo, TATAA biocenter, PamGene International and bioMérieux appear on PREMIER Biosoft's partnership page. The company recently announced a collaboration with MRC-Holland for supporting their MLPA technology in AlleleID.