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Dotmatics Introduces Luma Antibody & Protein Engineering Solution for End-to-End Antibody Discovery

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The first in a series of Dotmatics Luma Multimodal R&D Solutions

Geneious has been seamlessly composed into Luma showcasing cross-therapeutic capabilities within a unified platform

BOSTON, Oct. 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — Dotmatics®, a leader in R&D scientific software connecting science, data, and decision-making, today announced the launch of Dotmatics Luma™ Multimodal R&D Solutions in support of the discovery and development of therapeutics across multiple modalities of biopharmaceutical science. The first solution is the Luma Antibody & Protein Engineering solution, a comprehensive end-to-end solution for streamlining the antibody discovery and development process, with an emphasis on monoclonal and multispecific antibodies.

The Luma Antibody & Protein Engineering Solution and other future multimodal solutions combine the Dotmatics Luma Scientific Intelligence Platform and key Dotmatics scientific tools, thoughtfully composed within Luma. Together, these solutions will offer researchers a multimodal approach to therapeutic discovery supporting CAR-T cell discovery, siRNA, antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs), CRISPR therapeutics, and vaccine discovery.

“Increasingly our customers are asking for tools that support multiple modalities of therapeutic discovery,” said Michael Swartz, Chief Strategy Officer at Dotmatics. “Scientists want to pick the best therapy or combination of therapies to address a particular target by researching and testing across different domains of science – not just one. Dotmatics gives them a scientific intelligence platform that is natively built to support this.”

These multimodal Luma solutions will leverage capabilities from Dotmatics’ best-in-class scientific software products including Geneious®, GraphPad® Prism, OMIQ®, Protein Metrics Byos®, and FCS Express®, composed to work together harmoniously within Luma, enhancing overall functionality without friction. This approach allows researchers to use familiar tools while eliminating data and process silos, creating a more cohesive and collaborative environment.

Introducing Geneious Luma

The first of these scientific products seamlessly composed within Luma and being introduced today is Geneious Luma. With Geneious Luma, researchers will have access to analyze and visualize DNA, RNA, and protein sequences from Geneious Prime, and the antibody discovery and screening capabilities of Geneious Biologics.

Geneious Luma, and the other future Dotmatics scientific products composed within Luma, will each come pre-configured to work seamlessly within Luma, while allowing IT and scientists to compose their own sequence of sophisticated low-code actions, eliminating the need for lengthy customization or complex integrations. As a result, researchers can benefit from the end-to-end solution immediately. In addition, these products will be available to license together with the Luma platform and will include out-of-the-box Luma applications to fill critical gaps in the end-to-end workflow, including:

Multimodal Registration: Versioned, entity-specific, and extensible registration models driven by linked ontologies allow for the highest levels of scientific depth and precision. Luma links these models to how scientists naturally work, so registration happens automatically and asynchronously, along with the tracking and storage of experimental and product-related information throughout the research and development process. When test results indicate a synthesized molecule does not match the design, Luma can modify the linked registered entity without losing lineage or context of the original.Unified Results: All relevant project data—such as molecule designs, characterization data, assay data, endpoint data, and registered materials—can be correlated and unified into normalized data structures and customizable dashboards to quickly make decisions about which antibodies are best to advance. This happens automatically as people work, eliminating the need for hours of data wrangling currently implicit in activities from registration to analysis.Customer Apps: Customers can safely extend Dotmatics Luma apps or create their own low-code apps to contextualize, flow, and correlate data from disparate sources in ways that suit their needs – with scientifically smart dashboards and visualizations to match. These apps follow industry standard SDLC processes and FAIR data principles to make getting data into and out of Luma in a governed way simple and straightforward. Data integration options include REST, GraphQL, and JDBC.Artificial Intelligence: Luma will include significant generative and predictive ML capabilities for dry lab and wet lab tasks that customers can define and extend. Assistive GenAI will help customers accelerate the introspection, summarization, and visualization of their data. Domain-specific AI will allow Luma to leverage protein prediction, flow cytometry autogating, and other scientifically-focused models within their workflows. Composite AI will allow the use of multiple models or data sets generated from independent models to be brought together for higher order model training, selection, and execution.

The Luma Antibody & Protein Engineering Solution

By composing Geneious Luma and other scientific products within Luma, Dotmatics can offer researchers with a new solution for addressing the complexities of antibody and protein engineering.

“The Luma Antibody & Protein Engineering solution addresses long-standing gaps in the antibody discovery workflow by providing an end-to-end process that seamlessly composes many of scientists’ favorite tools directly into Luma,” said Kalim Sailba, Chief Product Officer at Dotmatics. “Researchers can now streamline workflows from planning and in-silico design to wet lab production, validation, and data analysis, all within a unified AI-native platform.”

The following products, composed within Luma, will support the Luma Antibody & Protein Engineering solution:

Geneious Luma: Enables researchers to use the advanced bioinformatics, molecular biology, and antibody discovery capabilities of Geneious Prime® and Geneious Biologics® to annotate and filter sequences and to design constructs. Then, seamlessly working together with Luma, researchers can execute their cloning, expression, and purification tasks using Luma’s Adaptive Workflow capabilities.

Customers will also have access to BioGlyph®, following Dotmatics’ recent investment, enabling the design and generation of multispecific antibody formats and the execution of predictive machine learning models to score potential multispecific antibodies, allowing researchers to explore all combinations of multispecific formats and proceed with only those that are most promising.

Prism Luma: Leverage GraphPad Prism, the industry-leading data analysis software, for antibody assay development and screening. This product includes native normalization and pre-processing of results prior to analysis in Prism (mitigating the need to use Excel) and contextual linking between assay results, registered materials, and experimental context.Byos & Byosphere Luma: Use Protein Metrics Byos, a comprehensive software for streamlining protein characterization, to characterize protein structures and behaviors for higher fidelity, then feed these characterizations back into predictive machine learning models to drive the next round of synthesis. Also leverage Protein Metrics Byosphere enterprise platform to combine biotherapeutic mass spec data, analysis, and reporting and to curate, interrogate, and share information gained in the analytical lab from Byos.Luma Lab Connect: Automate data ingestion from lab instruments including flow cytometry, liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry and other data sources. Lab Connect auto-associates instrument results with the correct workflow steps, materials, and endpoint data, mitigating a common manual pain point of SDMS and LIMS systems today.Flow Luma: Use OMIQ, the modern flow cytometry solution, to evaluate the molecular properties of antibody candidates, the cells that produce them, and phenotype their therapeutic outcomes.

Expanding Beyond Biopharma

The future use of Dotmatics Luma extends beyond biopharma and drug discovery into broader scientific domains, like material science and chemistry, industrial biotech, and agritech. Every solution built on the Luma platform ensures a unified user experience and seamless work and data flows, helping organizations achieve scientific breakthroughs faster and with greater accuracy. By delivering a cohesive and scalable platform, Dotmatics aims to support researchers across multiple industries, fostering innovation and collaboration.

Forward Looking Statements  

This press release contains forward-looking statements that are intended to outline our general product strategy. It is intended for informational purposes only and speaks only as of the date the statements are first published. It is not a commitment to deliver any functionality and should not be relied upon for making purchase decisions. You should not put any contractual reliance on these statements. The development, release, and timing of any products or capabilities remains at the sole discretion of Dotmatics.

No representation or warranty, express or implied, is provided in relation to the fairness, accuracy, correctness, completeness or reliability of the information, opinions or conclusions expressed herein. Only those representations or warranties that are made in or pursuant to one or more definitive agreements involving the parties will have any legal effect.

About Dotmatics
Dotmatics is a leader in R&D scientific software connecting science, data, and decision-making. Its enterprise R&D platform and scientists’ favorite applications drive efficiency and accelerate innovation. More than 2 million scientists and 10,000 customers trust Dotmatics to help them create a healthier, cleaner, safer world. Dotmatics is a global team of more than 800 people dedicated to supporting its customers in over 180 countries. Dotmatics has made 14 acquisitions since 2017. The company’s principal office is in Boston, with 14 offices and R&D teams located around the world.

Dotmatics is backed by Insight Partners, a leading global venture capital and private equity firm investing in high-growth technology and software scaleup companies. Learn more about Dotmatics, its platform, and applications including GraphPad Prism, Geneious, SnapGene, Protein Metrics, and LabArchives at https://www.dotmatics.com.

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Putting Young Innovators Center Stage: Leaders In Future Tech+ Wraps with ¥526 Million in Investment Intentions and 31 Enterprise Landings

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NANJING, China, Nov. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — On November 7, the grand finale of Leaders In Future Tech+ — a documentary sci-tech innovation program jointly produced by China Media Group, the Ministry of Education, and the Nanjing Municipal People’s Government — aired as the Youth Innovation Carnival.

Since its October 3 premiere, the program traveled to 10 cities across China, selecting 100 teams of young innovators with an average age of just 28 from nearly 500 applicants. Fifteen finalists advanced to the finale, presenting breakthroughs spanning AI chips, optical interconnect, biomedicine, smart agriculture, and more.

To date, the program has facilitated ¥526 million in investment intentions covering 34 participating enterprises, and helped 31 companies reach landing agreements with 11 districts and counties of Nanjing.

At the carnival, the “Leaders In Future Tech+ Little Giant Transformation Plan” was launched, with 13 enterprises selected in the first batch to receive a five-module service system guiding them toward specialized, high-end development.

Behind these numbers is a media-driven innovation model: closed-door investment meetings were turned into open, transparent dialogues, connecting young innovators directly with venture capital firms, academicians, industry experts, and local governments — with the focus not on short-term commercial maturity, but on long-term growth potential.

The finale also showed how technology serves everyday life: non-invasive brain-computer interface demonstrations, low-cost bone-repair materials, and ultra-low-cost fresh-keeping cards that reduce agricultural loss — each a footnote to innovation with human warmth.

With Season One concluded, Season Two recruitment is now open to innovation teams nationwide via China Media Group’s official channels and the Yangshipin app (CMG Mobile). As the program’s message goes: put young innovators at center stage — and hand the future to innovation.

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GSMA MWC26 Doha opens with call to align on global industry standards and close MENA’s connectivity gap

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Operators, technology leaders, policymakers and innovators gather in Doha today for three days of exhibition, collaboration and debate on the future of connectivity across the Middle East and North Africa

DOHA, Qatar, Nov. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — MWC26 Doha, held in partnership with Qatar’s Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT), opened today at Doha Exhibition and Convention Centre (DECC), bringing together connectivity ecosystem to shape the next phase of growth for a mobile economy forecast to add $470 billion to the Middle East and North Africa by 2030.

MWC26 Doha officially opened today, in presence of His Excellency Sheikh Saoud bin Abdulrahman bin Hassan bin Ali Al Thani, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Defence Affairs. His Excellency Mr. Mohammed bin Ali Al Mannai, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, State of Qatar delivered a welcome address.

In his opening remarks, H.E. Mr. Mohammed bin Ali Al Mannai, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, said: “The second edition of MWC Doha takes place at a time when the requirements of telecommunications infrastructure are undergoing fundamental change. As artificial intelligence advances towards executing tasks through intelligent agents, the need for more resilient networks and advanced computing capabilities continues to grow. At the same time, global challenges underscore the importance of diversifying connectivity routes and ensuring service continuity.”

GSMA Director General Vivek Badrinath and ITU Secretary-General Doreen Bogdan-Martin took to the stage for a fireside chat. Mr Badrinath set out the key priorities shaping the region’s connected future, with a continued commitment to global standards keeping networks and services interoperable across markets, as well as a renewed push to extend connectivity to populations that remain offline in MENA.

Vivek Badrinath, Director General, GSMA, said: “Progress only counts if everyone shares in it. That means two things: global standards that keep networks, services and devices working across borders, and a concerted effort to connect the people who are still offline. Over the next three days, MWC Doha, alongside its co-location with ITU’s PP-26, will bring together the policy makers, innovators and industry leaders setting these standards and building these networks, to help make this vision a reality. As the ITU Plenipotentiary continues, we are confident that the enhanced dialog which our co-location has allowed will feed into the important conversations taking place.”

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Club Offers for Travel Enthusiasts in Germany

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BERLIN, Nov. 8, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Travelzoo® (NASDAQ: TZOO), the club for travel enthusiasts, announces five of many new Club Offers for Club Members in Germany.

Rigorously vetted and negotiated for us travel enthusiasts:

FROM €99 PP—HESSE: 3 DAYS AT A CASTLE HOTEL WITH DINNER IN THE KNIGHTS’ HALL
A crackling fireplace and historic suits of armor on the walls: a cozy winter evening at Staufenberg Castle. Included for us Club Members: a 3-course dinner in the Knights’ Hall, which is more than 500 years old.

€499 PP—TUSCANY: VILLA WITH COOKING CLASS & 6-COURSE DINNER
“Fantastic cooking class, wonderful wine tasting, excellent dinner.” Club Members love Villa Patriarca, which is why we’ve negotiated another offer. Save 50% for three nights in a junior suite compared to the market price.

FROM €299 PP—NEW 5-STAR HOTEL IN PORTO WITH FLIGHTS
Three nights in a prime location next to the historic city walls. Views of the Douro River from the outdoor hot tub. A special price to celebrate the opening of this boutique hotel: the offer regularly costs €580.

€89 PP—3 DAYS AT A BOUTIQUE HOTEL ON SYLT
A ship’s wheel on the wall and a historic nautical chart on the ceiling. Or Delft tiles in the bathroom and a tiger-print rug. Every room at Haus Noge is unique. In the off-season, we travel enthusiasts pay €89 instead of €267 per person.

FROM €399 PP—TURKEY: 1 WEEK ALL-INCLUSIVE WITH FLIGHTS
Relax on a sandy beach and soak up the sun at the start of the season in April. Included for Club Members: a sea-view room and all meals and drinks. There’s also a sports and entertainment program, from beach volleyball to tennis.

Are you a travel enthusiast? Join the club today: https://travelzoo.com

Who are we?
We, Travelzoo®, are the club for travel enthusiasts. We reach 30 million travelers. Club Members receive Club Offers negotiated and rigorously vetted by our deal experts around the globe. Our relationships with thousands of top travel companies give us access to irresistible deals. Our club and its benefits are built around the lifestyle of a modern travel enthusiast.

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