ESBB’s 2014 Annual Conference conference will feature a wide variety of fascinating content from across the biobanking spectrum. There will be sessions on Cryobiology, Biobanking for Metabolomics and Proteomics, 'Big Data', Environmental Biobanking, Biobank Assessment, Biobanking Education and ELSI in Biobanking.

The personalized medicine biotechnology company Macrogen (www.macrogen.com) has announced it has licensed Clarity LIMS from GenoLogics Life Sciences Software (www.genologics.com), a leading provider of LIMS specifically designed for omics labs, to support its whole-genome sequencing and clinical sequencing services.

2014 SOFT Conference Society of Forensic Toxicologists
October 19 - 24, 2014 Grand Rapids, Michigan
http://soft-tox.org/meeting

Lab7 Systems, Inc., today introduced the Lab7 Enterprise Sequencing Platform (ESP), the industry’s only comprehensive sample-to-answer data management software for next-generation genomic sequencing (NGS) laboratories.

The ASHG Annual Meeting is the largest human genetics meeting and exposition in the world. This year’s meeting is expected to attract over 6,500 scientific attendees, plus over 200 exhibiting companies. The meeting provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting edge science in all areas of human genetics.

Omicia, Inc., the leading genome interpretation company, today announced the commercial availability of Opal ClinicalTM, the company’s software solution for diagnostic testing organizations.

DNAnexus Inc., today announced that their pioneering, cloud-based genome informatics and data management platform is powering novel genomic collaborations between the Regeneron Genetics Center (RGC) and leading healthcare providers. Described as the largest clinical sequencing undertaking in North America, the DNAnexus-supported initiative powers the industry’s first cloud-based genome center to integrate next-generation sequencing with de-identified clinical records, to profoundly accelerate medical discovery.

NHS Wales Informatics Service has selected Fiorano Software, a leader in enterprise integration middleware solutions, to provide the replacement of its current integration platform. NHS Wales is deploying the Fiorano solution to intelligently integrate its national systems, such as the Welsh Clinical Portal, Test Requesting and Results Reporting as well as providing multi-agency integration with a variety of NHS Wales organizations.

According to the new research report "Laboratory Information System/LIS Market by Type (Standalone, Integrated), Delivery Mode (On-premise, Hosted, SaaS), End User Labs (Clinical, Molecular Diagnostic, Blood Bank, Anatomic Pathology), & by Component (Software, Services) - Global Forecast to 2019", published by MarketsandMarkets, the global Laboratory Information Systems (LIS) Market is expected to reach $1,806.1 Million by 2019.

The Washington University School of Medicine is starting to see the benefits associated with implementing a PET LIMS system following the installation of PETra at their combined Nuclear Pharmacy and Radionuclide production facility.

This FDA compliance webinar will discuss in detail the guidance on recognition and use of consensus standards. It will focus on the topics such as voluntary conformance, declaration review and content of declaration of conformity

Accenture has announced the launch of Accenture Life Sciences Cloud for R&D which speeds clinical development, helps improve patient outcomes and creates greater R&D efficiency through a new single analytics platform that brings together multiple internal and external data sources across clinical, safety, regulatory and operational functions.

Committed to meeting a full range of anatomic pathology (AP) laboratory needs, NovoPath announces an interface to athenahealth for NovoPath’s Anatomic Pathology Laboratory Information System (APLIS). athenahealth, a leading provider of cloud-based services and mobile tools for medical groups and health systems, combines award-winning software, network knowledge and back-office services to take on providers’ most onerous work and keep them ahead of change.

Psyche Systems Corporation has released NucleoLIS specifically built in collaboration with our molecular and cytogenetic customers. You can now streamline the diagnostically diverse complexities of Molecular testing. NucleoLIS is a fully automated solution for PCR, Immunology, FISH, Karyotyping and DNA sequencing designed to support workflow, deviations, reflexing and the complex reporting requirements of the Molecular lab.

Drug Discovery Week Europe (DDWE), will take place October 7-10, 2014 in Dublin, Ireland. This week will feature two summits, each comprised of two parallel conferences, that will take place over the course of the four days: Technologies in Drug Discovery Summit & Biomarker Summit

This meeting provides a forum for researchers from various sectors to join and learn about the latest techniques and tools that enable advances in early-stage screening and the drug development process. The Summit features two parallel conferences.

See RURO solutions at ESBB 2014 – European, Middle Eastern & African Socienty for Biopreservation and Biobanking, October 20-October 22, 2014, Congress Centre Leipzig. Leipzig, Germany, RURO Booth # 31

Common Cents Systems, Inc. and Indigo Biosystems collaborate to create improved approach to clinical toxicology and reference lab LC/MS data processing and results reporting. The relationship between the companies and their software platforms, ASCENT and ApolloLIMS, has broad applications in the clinical research, forensic toxicology and reference laboratory markets. It will allow customers that implement both ASCENT and ApolloLIMS to reduce the data review and quality inspection by up to 80% (compared to traditional processes) and provide a smooth and efficient results reporting workflow.

See RURO solutions at 64th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Human Genetic. October 18-October 21, 2014, San Diego Convention Center - RURO Booth # 941

Dotmatics, a leading provider of scientific informatics solutions and services, has launched the Dotmatics Ecosystem Program. It will enable third party organisations to develop and seamlessly integrate their scientific applications into Dotmatics' solutions. The Dotmatics Platform is a single, fully integrated system that includes knowledge management applications and information query and reporting modules as well as data analysis and visualisation tools.