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Seattle based company Geospiza has been around the block a time or two in the bioinformatics business, and after 14 years in the game, it has come to the end of the road.
The bioinformatics company, which makes software for scientists who analyze data from genetic experiments, said last week it has agreed to be acquired by Waltham-based PerkinElmer, the giant maker of tools for life scientists.

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"Genomic information is becoming increasingly important in understanding and treating disease,'' said Richard Begley, PerkinElmer's president of emerging technologies and bioinformatics, in a statement.
Geospiza has been one of the small and persistent voices in the market that has insisted biologists need better software to manage genomic information and PerkinElmer provides just this especially for bioinformatics. The company struggled to get traction with this argument in the wake of the Human Genome Project of bioinformatics, but was able to weather the storm as competitors fell by the wayside, and the market eventually became more attractive

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New research shows that as of today, the biotech world puts a great deal of emphasis on clinical development and regulatory affairs jobs. According to an article by the Economic Times two of biotech's ace staffing experts, DHR International's Victor Kleinman and Solomon Page Group's Tom Murphy, have rated these two skill sets as some of the most sought after in the industry.

With more than 20 years of experience each in biotech recruiting, Kleinman and Murphy have a hands on understanding of the staffing requirements of biopharma firms. With the recent increase in the number of small biotech firms the need for candidates in these roles has increased exponentially. Having covered the basic groundwork in research and development of drugs, these biotech companies are now on the lookout for fully functional management teams and qualified leaders.

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Biotech employees are among the most happy with their daily tasks and the level of control they feel they have over that work. A new study reveals employees value coworkers and personal control over compensation. While salary is always an important component of every job, money is not enough to keep good employees happy.

In biotech jobs, the workers make a career out of tweaking nature: Biotechnology fuses engineering and technology with the life sciences.

"In biotech jobs, the people that they work with, and more specifically the person that they work for, tends to rank higher in terms of importance, and employees are overwhelmingly happy with those conditions," according to CareerBliss. The field of biotechnology is currently a growth industry, which makes growth opportunities in the field another key ingredient to its workers' overall happiness.