July 18, 2004 - Sale of Optical Technologies Segment to Newport Completed

Thermo Electron Corporation announced today that it has completed the previously announced sale of its Optical Technologies Segment to Newport Corporation.

July 16, 2004 - ATOFINA Chemicals to Host ESP’s Fall 2004 Software User Group Meeting

ESP (Environmental Software Providers) has announced that its Fall 2004 User Group Meeting, to be held on October 5-6 in Philadelphia, will be hosted by ATOFINA Chemicals.

July 16, 2004 - Schlumberger and AspenTech Form Alliance to Deliver Integrated Asset Modeling Solution for Oil and Gas Companies

New Integrated Architecture Enables Operators to Plan, Manage and Optimize Oil and Gas Asset Production

July 16, 2004 - Agilent Technologies gains exclusive rights to sell SSI’s CyberLAB Enterprise Content Management System

Agilent to provide integrated portfolio of laboratory software for life sciences and chemical analysis customers

July 16, 2004 - Labtronics Inc. Releases New Toolkit for Validating Instrument/LIMS Interfaces

Labtronics Inc. announces the release of version 3.2 of the Validation Toolkit for their LIMS interfacing application LimsLink.

July 15, 2004 - McDonald Bradley Launches New IT Security Offering Focusing On Digital Forensics

Company Hires Former General Dynamics Executive to Spearhead Operation

July 15, 2004 - IBM Scientists Make Breakthrough in Nanoscale Imaging

IBM scientists have achieved a breakthrough in nanoscale magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) by directly detecting the faint magnetic signal from a single electron buried inside a solid sample.

July 15, 2004 - Computer Forensics Inc. Expert Collaborates on Creation of Department of Justice Guide for Examination of Digital Evidence

Michael W. Finnie, senior forensic examiner with Seattle-based Computer Forensics Inc. (CFI), was one of the private-sector experts who participated as a member of an elite working group that has developed a comprehensive guide for U.S. law enforcement agencies to assist them with the collection and examination of digital evidence.

July 15, 2004 - ChemAxon Launches New Prediction Tools and Improved 3D Generation In Marvin 3.4

ChemAxon, a software solutions provider for life sciences, today announced the launch of four new structure based Calculation Plugins; hydrogen bond acceptor/donor, major microspecies, reactivity and refractivity as well as the 3.4 release of Marvin, ChemAxon's Java based chemical editor and viewer.

July 15, 2004 - InforSense 1.9 to Boost Genetic Research for Canadian Scientists

InforSense Ltd., the leading provider of Open Discovery Workflow informatics platforms, announced a multi-user multi-year license agreement with The Centre for Applied Genomics (TCAG) Microarray Facility at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. The InforSense enterprise Knowledge Discovery Environment will provide a powerful software environment for the advanced analysis of Affymetrix GeneChip ™ data.

July 15, 2004 - Infinity Pharmaceuticals Uses MATLAB For Drug Discovery Data Analysis

MATLAB Empowers Pharmaceutical Researchers To Automate Data Analysis Tasks, Decrease Application Development Time, And Create Consistent Quality Of Data

July 15, 2004 - The BioAnalytics Group and BIOSoftware Systems Provide Systems Biology Solution to Roche

The BioAnalytics Group ('TBAG') and BIOSoftware Systems ('BSS'), through their joint partnership, are providing Roche with physiological models in their systems biology process for drug discovery.

July 15, 2004 - Hong Kong Hospital Authority Helps Combat SARS and Enhance Front-Line Care by Standardizing on Informatica

Informatica data integration software helps Hong Kong's leading public healthcare provider leverage critical patient data to improve public welfare

July 15, 2004 - CombiMatrix Announces Launch of Human Toxicology Expression Array

Acacia Research Corporation announced that its CombiMatrix group has made available to researchers its new CustomArray(TM) Human Toxicology Array. This array will provide researchers a powerful tool for detcting changes in gene expression indicative of a toxic or stress-related response.

July 14, 2004 - Johns Hopkins and PharMetrics Enter into Agreement; Medical Database Agreement to Enhance ACG Risk Adjustment System

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have signed a multi-year agreement with PharMetrics, Inc., of Watertown, Mass., to acquire data from the company's proprietary Anonymous Patient-Centric Database.

July 14, 2004 - Bio-Rad Releases Thirteen New ADME | Tox Databases

Bio-Rad Laboratories, Inc. announced the release of thirteen databases that contain measured ADME/Tox properties for a broad range of chemical compounds and cover seven endpoints, including Blood Brain Barrier, Human Intestinal Absorption, log D, log P, Mutagenicity, Plasma-Protein Binding, and Water Solubility.

July 14, 2004 - Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc. Acquires Molecular and Cytogenetics Laboratory

Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc. announced that it has acquired the molecular and cytogenetics facilities from Cancer Genetics, Inc

July 14, 2004 - Synthematix Announces Major New Release of Arthur Suiteâ„¢

New features focus on integration within the research enterprise.

July 14, 2004 - IntelliChem Names Mike Seashols to Board of Directors

Silicon Valley Leader and Entrepreneur Brings Wealth of Experience in Growing Enterprise Software Companies to IntelliChem

July 14, 2004 - Manchester Water Works Selects Bridge-Soft Quality Management System Software

Bridge-Soft’s QMS Software Selected to Manage Operational and Quality Information for Water Treatment Facility