Bio-Rad Announces Web Seminar Series in Metabolomics, Spectroscopy, and ADME | Tox

PHILADELPHIA, PA – JULY 19, 2006 – Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. (AMEX: BIO and BIOb), announced today it will offer a second series of web seminars beginning in August that are focused on the latest approaches in metabolomics, spectroscopy, and ADME/Tox. In addition, Bio-Rad will offer a “Summer School” series of web seminars beginning that same month to its KnowItAll® Informatics System customers. Registration for all of the seminars is free and can be accessed online at http://www.knowitall.com.

Web seminar topics will include:

ADME/TOX

  • A Computational Aid to Pre-Clinical Safety

SPECTROSCOPY

  • Characterization of IR Spectra via Multivariate Processing and Overlap Density Heatmaps
  • Towards Greater Understanding of Spectroscopic Data: New Approaches Employing Multivariate Techniques for the Analysis of IR, NMR, MS, and Raman

METABOLOMICS

  • From NMR FIDs to Biomarker Candidates: A Seamlessly Integrated Working Environment for NMR-Based Metabolomics

SUMMER SCHOOL SERIES FOR KNOWITALL CUSTOMERS

  • Basic and Advanced Search Strategies for Infrared
  • Basics of Structure Drawing using the KnowItAll Informatics System
  • Creating Reports with the KnowItAll Informatics System

Bio-Rad’s Informatics Division

Bio-Rad’s Informatics Division (www.informatics.bio-rad.com) specializes in state-of-the-art software and database solutions for the pharmaceutical, biotech, and chemical industries. Bio-Rad is the leading publisher of fully verified spectral databases, cheminformatics, spectroscopy software and decision support systems for drug discovery. The company’s award-winning KnowItAll® Informatics System offers a fully integrated environment with flexible, expandable software and database solutions for spectroscopy (MS, NMR, IR, Raman, and spectral data management); cheminformatics; in silico ADME/Tox prediction; lead optimization; and, metabolomics.

Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc., is a multinational manufacturer and distributor of life science research products and clinical diagnostics. Based in Hercules, California, Bio-Rad serves more than 70,000 research and industry customers worldwide through a network of more than 30 wholly owned subsidiary offices. For more information, visit www.bio-rad.com.