Lecture #7

Company

A company is a business organization.

It is an association or collection of individual real persons and/or other companies, who each provide some form of capital.

This group has a common purpose or focus and an aim of gaining profits. This collection, group or association of persons can be made to exist

in law and then a company is itself considered a "legal person".

The name company arose because, at least originally, it represented or was owned by more than one real or legal person.

Types

A company limited by guarantee.A company limited by shares.

A company limited by guarantee with a share capital.

A limited-liability company.

An unlimited company with or without a share capital

Types

Companies are also sometimes distinguished for legal and regulatory purposes between public companies and private companies.

Public companies are companies whose shares can be publicly traded, often (although not always) on a regulated stock exchange.

Private companies do not have publicly traded shares, and often contain restrictions on transfers of shares. In some jurisdictions, private companies have maximum numbers of shareholders.

The Top Bioinformatics

Companies

AbbottAccelrysCubist

Agilent TechnologiesSanofiBioDiscovery

Abbott

http://www.abbott.com/index.htm

Global, broad-based health care company devoted to discovering new medicines, new technologies and new ways to manage health.

Products span the continuum of care, from nutritional products and laboratory diagnostics through medical devices and pharmaceutical therapies.

Abbott has sales, manufacturing, research and development, and distribution facilities around the world, close to where our customers need us to be.

Accelrys

http://accelrys.com/

Leading provider of scientific innovation lifecycle management software, supports industries and organizations that rely on scientific innovation to differentiate themselves.

The industry-leading Accelrys Enterprise Platform provides a broad, flexible scientific solution optimized to integrate the diversity of science, experimental processes and information requirements across the research, development, process scale- up and early manufacturing phases of product development.

Our 1,300 customers include most of the world’s leading companies including:

29 of the top 30 Pharma / Biotech companies4 of the top 5 Chemicals companies

3 of the top 5 Consumer Packaged Goods companies5 of the top 5 Aerospace companies

Cubist

http://www.cubist.com/

Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the research, development, and commercialization of pharmaceutical products that address unmet medical needs in the acute care environment.

Cubist is headquartered in Lexington, MA and employs approximately 700 people. The company's 3Q12 total net revenues were up 18% to $238.2 million as compared to 3Q11.

Agilent Technologies

http://www.home.agilent.com/agilent/home. jspx?cc=US&lc=eng&cmpid=5443

The world’s premier measurement company

Agilent provides the measurement capabilities that make world more productive and a safer, healthier, more enjoyable place to live.

No other company offers the breadth and depth of measurement tools and expertise to meet the world’s critical requirements for electronic and bio-analytical measurement.

Sanofi

Sanofi, a global and diversified healthcare leader, discovers, develops and distributes therapeutic solutions focused on patients’ needs.

Sanofi has core strengths in healthcare, with 7 growth platforms: diabetes solutions, human vaccines, innovative drugs, consumer healthcare, emerging markets, animal health and the new Genzyme.

Through the acquisition of Genzyme, Sanofi has strongly reinforced its footprint in rare diseases.

More than 110,000 employees in 100 countries2011 net sales: a €33.4 billion, growth of 3.2%

BioDiscovery

http://www.biodiscovery.com/

BioDiscovery develops, markets and sells advanced software solutions for the analysis of data from high- throughput microarray and next- generation sequencing technologies.

BioDiscovery was founded in 1997, in Los Angeles, California as a pioneer in the then nascent field of microarray informatics.