August 7, 2004 - Global Sales Director For Informatics Appointed by Thermo Electron

Thermo Electron Corporation has announced the appointment of Bill Summers as the Global Sales Director, Informatics. In this newly-created role, Summers will be responsible for all commercial aspects of the Informatics business on a worldwide basis, driving sales of Thermo’s market leading informatics solutions, including SampleManager and Nautilus LIMS and the Atlas Chromatography Data System.

August 6, 2004 - Agilent Technologies commercializes first whole-genome microarray for Arabidopsis, model organism used in plant research

Product to help scientists improve crop yields, increase plant resistance to disease and drought

August 6, 2004 - Optive Research Introduces Discovery Informatics Solutions Optimized for HP LC-Series Clusters

Easy-to-own Linux-based clusters give life science researchers turnkey discovery informatics solutions on x86 servers

August 6, 2004 - Warnex Receives U.S. Validations For Genevision(Tm) Listeria Detection Kits

Warnex Inc., announced that its Genevision(TM) food safety tests for the detection of Listeria monocytogenes and Listeria species have been granted Performance Tested(SM) status by the AOAC Research Institute, and become the third and fourth Genevision tests to be validated in the United States.

August 5, 2004 - Software offers plant maintenance management solution

FastMaint CMMS v4.2 provides computerized maintenance management solution (CMMS) for small to mid-size industrial plants and facilities. Designed to help reduce plant downtime, it offers unified way to handle planned and breakdown maintenance tasks. Software provides integrated inventory system to track inventory and alert users when to reorder parts. Users can plan ahead and budget work for any defined period, create work orders, and collect feedback.

August 5, 2004 - New Family of National Instruments USB Devices Offers Portable Data Acquisition

First Five Devices of New USB Line Releasing in 2004 Deliver Easy Connectivity for Measurement Systems

August 5, 2004 - Novell Ships Powerful SOA Suite with Complete Linux Support

Novell announced the immediate availability of Novell® exteNd 5.2, a powerful service-oriented architecture (SOA) suite with complete Linux* support from the desktop to the server to visually design and deploy Web services-based applications. Novell exteNd 5.2 delivers visual development tools that make it even easier to integrate disparate systems through identity-based portal services to build composite applications on the industry's broadest range of application servers and platforms.

August 5, 2004 - Underwriters Laboratories Paves the Way for One-Stop Certification of Electrical Measurement, Control, Lab Equipment

Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. (UL) has published a new second-edition standard that combines three existing UL Standards-UL 61010A for laboratory equipment, UL 61010B for test and measurement equipment, and UL 61016C for process control equipment-into a single standard: UL 61010-1, Safety Requirements for Electrical Equipment for Measurement, Control and Laboratory Use, Part 1.

August 5, 2004 - PerkinElmer and Vivascience/Sartorius to Develop Innovative Proteomics-Based Biomarker Platform

PerkinElmer to Produce Proprietary, Integrated Reagent Platform for Biomarker Analysis

August 5, 2004 - Moldflow Launches Moldflow Plastics Insight Release 5.0 – Latest software release delivers unprecedented functionality and innovation

Moldflow Corporation, the world leader in process-wide solutions for optimizing the design and manufacture of plastics injection molded products, announces the release of Moldflow Plastics Insight® (MPI®) 5.0, the industry’s most widely used plastics design analysis software.

August 5, 2004 - Applied Biosystems Releases 20 Million Genotypes Within Latest Version Of Free SNP Selection Tool

New Release of SNPbrowser™ Software Also Includes Links to 1.8 million New TaqMan® SNP Genotyping Assays

August 5, 2004 - LION bioscience and TEMIS Announce Partnership to Enhance Text Mining Solutions for the Life Science Industry

LION bioscience and TEMIS announced that they have entered into a collaboration in the area of Text Mining.

August 4, 2004 - Analytical Spectral Devices’ Portable LabSpec® Pro Selected by National Archives (Washington D.C.) for Identification of Preservation Materials

ASD's LabSpec® Pro has been selected by the National Archives (Washington D.C.) for use in analysis and identification of archival materials. The portable LabSpec® Pro is being used at document locations to determine types and quality of various glues, resins, and plastic laminates used in the preservation of old documents, and for determining the percent of bonded moisture in documents.

August 4, 2004 - RFP – Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)

Gwinnett County, Georgia - Department of Public Utilities

August 2, 2004 - RFO – Environmental Science Laboratory Management System (LIMS)

Texas Dept. of Health

August 2, 2004 - ITB – Methylmercury Analysis

State of California

August 2, 2004 - ITB – Water Testing

State of California

August 2, 2004 - IFB – Determine Asbestos Content in Ambient Air and Bulk Samples

State of California

August 2, 2004 - Combined Solicitation – Environmental Sampling Services

US Dept. of the Army

August 2, 2004 - Combined Solicitation – Computational Toxicology Research Study

US Environmental Protection Agency