InforMax Inc
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| Industry | Bioinformatics |
|---|---|
| Fate | Sold to Invitrogen in November, 2002 |
| Successor(s) | Invitrogen |
| Founder(s) |
Alex Titomirov Vadim Babenko |
| Headquarters | Bethesda, Maryland, United States |
| Key people |
Alex Titomirov (CEO and Chairman) Vadim Babenko (CTO and VP of Development |
| Products |
Vector NTI Genomax'' |
| Website | |
Informax, Inc. was an American bioinformatics company founded in 1990 by Alex Titomirov with the group of prominent Russian and American scientists and businessmen. Started from scratch, Informax developed line of unique products to perform sequence visualization and analysis. Informax first flagship product - Vector NTI quickly became very popular. After success with software product designed for a desktop users, Informax developed enterprise-level solution named Genomax. Several other applications for bioinformatics were developed.
InforMax IPO in October 2000 was a record success with x20 times "over-the-book" orders for the company's stock; with 5M shares sold - orders for 100M shares were received. InforMax was sold to Invitrogen in November, 2002. Invitrogen is still selling Vector NTI software.