Dotmatics

Research informatics group behind GraphPad Prism, SnapGene, Geneious and LabArchives, now owned by Siemens

As of 31 August 2026, Dotmatics's pricing is not published; the vendor quotes on request. Less a single product than a portfolio assembled by acquisition, including GraphPad Prism, SnapGene, Geneious, LabArchives and Protein Metrics. Softwr lists it under Research. Dotmatics is made by Dotmatics (Siemens Digital Industries Software), available on Web, Windows, macOS, On-premise.

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Overview

What Dotmatics does

Dotmatics sells scientific software across the discovery workflow: an informatics platform for chemistry and biology registration, assay data and ELN, plus a large catalogue of individually bought desktop and web applications. GraphPad Prism for statistics, SnapGene for molecular cloning, Geneious Prime for sequence analysis, FCS Express and OMIQ for flow cytometry, Protein Metrics for proteomics, LabArchives for lab notebooks and nQuery for trial design are all Dotmatics brands, though most of their users have no idea of it. The fact that changes a shortlist is the ownership. Siemens closed its acquisition on 1 July 2025 for an enterprise value of 5.1 billion dollars and placed Dotmatics inside its Digital Industries Software business, alongside its product lifecycle management portfolio. Siemens has stated expectations of substantial revenue synergies, which in practice means pressure to sell the individual tools into a platform. Anyone renewing a single-seat Prism or SnapGene licence is now buying from an industrial software conglomerate with a stated strategy of integration. Buyers range from an individual postdoc buying one Prism licence to a pharmaceutical company licensing the informatics platform across thousands of scientists. The trade off is portfolio coherence: the products were acquired separately, are still priced separately, and integrate with each other to varying and sometimes disappointing degrees.

What people use it for

A pharmaceutical company consolidating compound registration, assay data and biology screening onto one informatics layer
A biotech that already owns Prism, SnapGene and Geneious separately and wants to understand what a group contract would cover
A university licensing LabArchives across departments as an institutional electronic lab notebook
A biologics group needing sequence analysis, flow cytometry and proteomics tools from one supplier with a single procurement route

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Dotmatics.

The portfolio was assembled by acquisition and integration between the constituent products is uneven, so buying several Dotmatics brands does not deliver a single connected environment and often means the same manual export steps as before.
The Siemens acquisition completed in July 2025 with stated revenue synergy targets, which usually translates into pressure to move individually bought desktop licences into larger platform agreements, and small buyers of a single Prism or SnapGene seat should expect that pressure at renewal.
Nothing about the enterprise platform is publicly priced, and even the individual applications are increasingly moved to subscription, so total cost across a research group is hard to establish before negotiation.
Each acquired product retains its own licence terms, support channel and release cycle, so an organisation using four Dotmatics brands manages four different renewal dates, entitlement models and support experiences.
Enterprise deployments require data migration and configuration services, and validated instances for regulated use add both cost and an ongoing customer revalidation duty after each release, so the informatics platform is a programme rather than a purchase.

Cross-shopped

What people choose instead of Dotmatics

Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.

Dotmaticsvs
Benchling
Benchling: A single natively built platform rather than an acquired portfolio, if coherence matters more than breadth
Dotmaticsvs
LabArchives
LabArchives: Worth naming explicitly because it is itself a Dotmatics brand and can be bought on its own for notebook-only needs
Dotmaticsvs
Sapio Sciences
Sapio Sciences: Choose it if you want one configurable system across ELN, LIMS and assay data instead of assembling several tools

Pricing

What Dotmatics costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Dotmatics platform

On request

Enterprise informatics platform priced per user per year on quotation
Chemistry and biology registration, assay data and ELN modules scoped separately
Implementation and data migration services quoted as a separate programme
Validated deployments for regulated work contracted as additional scope
Individual applications such as GraphPad Prism and SnapGene sold under their own separate licence terms

Capabilities

Features

Dotmatics platform
Chemistry and biology registration, assay data management and ELN in one informatics layer
GraphPad Prism
Statistics and scientific graphing, widely used as a standalone purchase
SnapGene
Molecular cloning design, simulation and plasmid documentation
Geneious Prime and Biologics
Sequence analysis and antibody discovery workflows
LabArchives
Electronic lab notebook widely deployed across universities
Flow cytometry tools
FCS Express, OMIQ and EasyPanel for acquisition, analysis and panel design
Protein Metrics
Proteomics and biotherapeutic characterisation software
Siemens ownership
Part of Siemens Digital Industries Software since 1 July 2025

Answered, with sources

Questions people ask

Each answer names the page it came from, so you can check it rather than take our word for it.

Who owns Dotmatics?

Siemens, which completed a 5.1 billion dollar acquisition on 1 July 2025. Dotmatics now sits inside Siemens Digital Industries Software.

Is GraphPad Prism a Dotmatics product?

Yes. So are SnapGene, Geneious, LabArchives, FCS Express, OMIQ, Protein Metrics, SoftGenetics and nQuery.

Do the products work together?

To varying degrees. They were acquired separately and integration across the portfolio is uneven, so verify the specific pair you care about before assuming it.

Is enterprise pricing published?

No. The informatics platform is quoted per user per year with modules and services scoped separately.

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