PHT Corporation launched the MyStudyHome™ online community that connects sponsors with sites to share up-to-date training and documentation, calendars, and study specific updates. MyStudyHome gives pharmaceutical sponsors and CROs a competitive edge in retaining high performing clinical trial investigation sites and improving site engagement and compliance. PHT Corporation is the leading provider of innovative technology systems used to collect patient-driven eData for clinical research.

PathCentral (www.pathcentral.net), a technology-enabled company dedicated to the success of the international pathology community, today announced that the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine’s Department of Pathology will participate as a client in the PathCentral Pathology Network (www.pathcentralpro.net), the specialty’s most comprehensive online information exchange and digital consultation forum.

Autoscribe has won an order from a leading medical device manufacturer for a multi-site implementation of its Matrix Gemini Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS). This new installation makes use of Matrix Gemini’s standard dual web/Windows user interface and will be rolled out over laboratories in three different locations. Autoscribe has considerable experience of multisite LIMS installations with over 500 concurrent users connected via multiple sites.

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), today announced that ConnectingSpaces has selected and implemented Hitachi Content Platform (HCP) with Pixcelldata’s Collibio software as its digital pathology solution for use by the biosecurity sector. ConnectingSpaces is an Australian security-accredited service provider of virtual work environments.

INTERPHEX is the leading annual pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical trade show. Key decision makers find the networking opportunities, products, services and information they need to ensure quality and maximize efficiency, agility, and flexibility that solve manufacturing and supply chain problems. INTERPHEX is where intelligence and passion intersect with the full spectrum of industry products and services to create new insights and innovation.

The Most Important Event of the Year for LabWare LIMS Users, Administrators, Laboratory Managers and key stakeholders. Gain valuable, real-world ideas and solutions for managing your LabWare LIMS. With a full team of LabWare LIMS experts on hand at the 2013 meeting – both users and LabWare staff – you’ll want to take advantage of this great opportunity to engage with your colleagues - exchanging ideas, knowledge and expertise.

Life Technologies Corporation announced today that it is partnering with Ridom GmbH (Munster, Germany) to make SeqSphere+ whole genome bacterial typing software available for Ion Torrent users. This software enables any lab to perform fast, affordable, and automated high-resolution bacterial typing on the Ion Personal Genome Machine® (PGM™) sequencer.

In this one hour, complimentary webinar, learn how to develop and execute a change management process that is appropriate for your lab informatics solution’s scope of deployment.

Drug Discovery Chemistry is one of the few conferences for medicinal chemists working in pharma & biotech, and is focused on discovery and optimization challenges of small molecule drug candidates. New this year are Constrained Peptides and Macrocyclics and GPCR-Based Drug Design which represent areas of chemistry where evolving technologies are leading to renewed interest. They nicely complement the most popular meetings from the past few years: Anti-Inflammatories, Fragment Based Drug Discovery, Kinase Inhibitor Chemistry and Protein-Protein Interactions.

Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, and Life Technologies Corporation, a leading life sciences company, have signed a definitive agreement under which Thermo Fisher will acquire Life Technologies.

Life Technologies Corporation today announced the launch of Vector NTI® Express Designer, the latest advancement in its Vector NTI® software platform, which offers researchers comprehensive and streamlined custom vector and genetic construct design and synthesis. The desktop software tool is designed for molecular biology, metabolic engineering, genetic engineering, and synthetic biology professionals who want to rationally design, assemble and order synthetic genetic "parts," optimizing genetic components for a broad range of applications.

This 90-minute webinar on laboratory OOS investigations will review the regulatory requirements for an OOS Investigation. You will learn common regulatory pitfalls and how to structure an Investigation report that satisfactorily documents the investigation.

Abbott unveiled Version 11 STARLIMS LIMS software for industrial, clinical and research laboratories, featuring easy and reliable mobile applications for use with smart phones and tablet computing devices. The company also announced global availability of its secure and convenient cloud computing services. Based on Abbott’s STARLIMS informatics technology, the v.11 LIMS software will expand user functionality to include mobile-device applications and advanced analytic capabilities. These features will allow STARLIMS users to work on the right screen for the right task with an expanded platform to access LIMS information anywhere for use in quality assurance functions, raw materials analysis and other needs.

GGA Software Services LLC, a leading provider of outsourced scientific informatics and software services to the life sciences industry, announced today that GGA and Pfizer will present Indigo ELN, the industry’s leading open-source chemistry electronic laboratory notebook, at the 2013 Bio-IT World Conference and Expo

Combined solution allows on demand scale-out of transfer, analysis and storage of massive amounts of genome sequence data uniting researchers, clinical labs, doctors, and patients

Affymetrix, Inc. and BioDiscovery announce the availability of the Nexus for OncoScan® Software for analysis of whole genome copy number data generated from formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded (FFPE) solid tumor samples using the OncoScan® FFPE Express 2.0 Service. Through a joint arrangement, this software, based on BioDiscovery’s flagship Nexus Copy Number™, is available to customers who are analyzing data generated using this service.

The 2013 Expo plans to unite 2,500+ life sciences, pharmaceutical, clinical, healthcare, and IT professionals from 30+ countries. The Expo provides the perfect venue to share information and discuss enabling technologies that are driving biomedical research and the drug development process.

Aspera, Inc (http://asperasoft.com/)., creators of next-generation technologies that move the world’s big data at maximum speed, today announced that the leading provider of ePathology systems, Leica Biosystems, through its Aperio ePathology Solutions, has integrated Aspera’s industry leading Connect Server to move large digital images over ePathAccess worldwide.

Accelrys, Inc., a leading provider of scientific innovation lifecycle management software, has announced the launch of the Accelrys Externalized Collaboration Suite, a software solution designed specifically to address the needs of life sciences organizations engaged in externalized network research.

Core Informatics, a leading provider of data management solutions to the life sciences, molecular diagnostics, and energy industries, and OpenEye Scientific Software, a leading developer of innovative molecular modeling and cheminformatics solutions for molecular discovery, announce a new partnership and the integration of OpenEye cheminformatics software into Core Informatics' web-based Laboratory Information Management System (Core LIMS) and Electronic Lab Notebook (Core ELN).