Dotmatics is an R&D scientific software company used by scientists in the R&D process that help them be more efficient in their efforts to innovate. Founded in 2005, the company's primary office is in Boston with 14 offices around the globe. In March 2021, Dotmatics joined forces with Insightful Science through a merger. In April 2022, the two companies consolidated under the Dotmatics brand. Dotmatics' software is used by 2 million scientists and researchers and 10,000 customers.
Dotmatics offers a cloud-based data management platform to support the R&D process and a series of software applications used by scientists that includes GraphPad Prism, SnapGene, Geneious Prime, Geneious Biologics, Lab Archives, OMIQ, Protein Metrics, nQuery, Cytapex Bioinformatics, and De Novo. Dotmatics is backed by Insight Partners, a venture capital and private equity firm.
History
Dotmatics' origins trace back to Merck Sharp and Dohme, a multinational pharmaceutical company, where, in the early 2000s, Merck staff developed what later became Dotmatics' browser and gateway software. Dotmatics Limited was founded in 2005 as a spin-out when Merck closed the site. The company was established with the intent to address the information needs of scientists in the biotech/pharma space.
Nov. 2006: Incorporate Astex Therapeutics' chemical structure searching software as the product pinpoint. Oct. 2007: Headquarters moved to new premises in Bishops Stortford, United Kingdom. March 2009: Opened West Coast US office in Biotech Beach area of San Diego. Oct. 2009: Launched in Japanese market via Tokyo-based Infocom Corporation. April 2010: Opened East Coast US office in Boston Massachusetts. April 2010: Launched web-based Studies Notebook, for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Dec. 2010: Headquarters moved to expanded premises. March 2011, Studies Notebook integrated Lexichem chemical naming from OpenEye Scientific Software, to automate name-to-structure and structure-to-name conversions in English and foreign languages. April 2011: Elemental web-based structure drawing tool included in ChemSpider, the Royal Society of Chemistry's community website. Sept. 2011: Move East Coast office from Boston's financial district to Woburn MA. Oct 2017: Significant investment by Scottish Equity Partners June 2020: BioBright acquired diversifying into Laboratory Automation technology. July 2020: 2019 Revenue is over £26M. March 2021: Insightful Science acquires Dotmatics; Thomas Swalla named CEO. April 2022: Dotmatics used as the consolidated brand name of the combined Insightful Science and Dotmatics entity.