Cartagenia, the world leader in providing genetic labs and clinicians software-based workflow support for variant assessment, lab reporting, and integration of diagnostic knowledge-bases, announced today that it has signed a license agreement for its cloud-based BENCHlab CNV solution for genetic variant storage and analysis with West Midlands Regional Genetics Laboratory (WMRGL) at Birmingham Women's Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (BWHFT).

Today at the Bio-IT World conference in Boston, IBM and CLC bio announced a combined turnkey next generation sequencing data analytics solution. The combined platform is a scalable end-to-end solution that integrates a computing cluster build on advanced IBM hardware, CLC Genomics Server software for large-scale genomics sequencing data analysis, and CLC Genomics Workbench client software for analyzing, comparing, and visualizing high-throughput sequencing data.

Medical Informatics World 2013 will bring together industry leaders and decision makers in the fields of HIT, healthcare, biomedical sciences, life sciences, pharmaceuticals, informatics and IT. Medical Informatics World 2013 will feature three concurrent tracks, each running a day and a half, and three in-depth half-day workshops providing dynamic discussion from world leading scientists and executives in healthcare informatics, biomedical informatics, applied clinical informatics, and personalized medicine.

More than 18,000 researchers from around the world will attend the AACR Annual Meeting 2013, making this one of the world’s premier events where the latest and most exciting discoveries in cancer research are presented. This forum provides a unique opportunity for members of the worldwide cancer research community to discover, interact, and collaborate.

Perceptive Informatics, a leading eClinical solutions provider and a subsidiary of PAREXEL International Corporation, today released an enhanced version of its comprehensive IMPACT® clinical trial management system (CTMS).

The Lab Portal Company’s product Lab-Connector enables laboratories to add new sales channels by giving your provider network the ability to order online, through a secure online portal. Order automation reduces redundant data entry, and increases accuracy of your reports and reduces your turnaround time. With Lab-Connector’s shopping cart module, you can sell directly to consumers or providers and receive payment immediately, while increasing data accuracy. If you can increase your revenue, reduce your turnaround time, reduce IT costs, while generating reports in HTML/PDF/HL7 that your providers and patients love wouldn’t you be interested?

Accelrys, Inc., a leading provider of scientific innovation lifecycle management software, and eMolecules, Inc, a market-leading compound sourcing platform, announced that they are collaborating to include eMolecules' in-stock building block compounds in the Accelrys Available Chemicals Directory (ACD) database.

See RURO at Bio-IT World Conference & Expo - Booth # 124

The upcoming training program is an interactive workshop that reviews the origins of design controls, the regulatory requirements, with a brief review of useful quality and project management tools

AQE 2013, the air quality and emissions show, has been heralded a phenomenal success by organisers, exhibitors, speakers and visitors. With air pollution concern running high, this event could not have been better timed, and succeeded in attracting three times the number of registered visitors than the previous event in 2011.

All information systems will eventually reach the end of their life. If you go the route of Data Migration, you'll need to know how to identify what, when, and how data should be migrated to the new Lab Informatics system. This webinar will cover those items and help you prepare a plan for the data migration move.

Bio-Modeling Systems, a leading integrative systems biology company and Persistent Systems, the global leader in software product and technology services, today announced a joint systems biology research and development initiative.

Autoscribe, developer of the Matrix Gemini Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), has adopted a novel approach to save time and money and minimise the risk for laboratories embarking on LIMS and sample management projects. Utilising the versatile configuration capabilities of Matrix Gemini, Autoscribe can offer a unique ‘Proof of Concept’ service, which will enable the laboratory to evaluate the system for up to a month, working on an agreed percentage of the laboratory’s needs.

CSols, Inc., a leader in the Laboratory Informatics industry, announced today that their Road Show is on the move again and heading to California. CSols plans to visit San Francisco on March 26th, Los Angeles March 27th, and San Diego March 28th and host the complimentary seminar “Leveraging Informatics to Support Lean Labs” from 8am – 10am. Registration is required and a light breakfast will be provided.

Promium, L.L.C., a leading provider of laboratory software, announced today that the company has received a contract from Environment Canada, the federal department responsible for environmental protection and monitoring in Canada, to supply Element LIMS (laboratory information management system) for Environment Canada’s national network of environmental laboratories.

LifeMap Sciences, Inc., a subsidiary of BioTime, Inc., announced today the release of LifeMap DiscoveryTM version 1.1 (discovery.lifemapsc.com). LifeMap DiscoveryTM is a key component in LifeMap’s integrated database suite, a discovery platform for biomedical and stem cell research, which also includes GeneCards®, the leading human gene database, and MalaCards, the human disease database.

Promega Corporation’s PowerPlex® Fusion System is now approved for use in laboratories that generate DNA records for the National DNA Index System (NDIS). NDIS is the U.S. national database containing over ten million offender profiles used to help authorities in solving criminal investigations nationwide, using the FBI’s CODIS system. This approval of PowerPlex Fusion follows the recent NDIS approval of PowerPlex® Y23 announced in January.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that it is launching significant innovations in software, instruments, consumables and services that unify its industry-leading analytical instrument platforms and enable customers to turn data into knowledge faster and more reliably.

Thermo Fisher Scientific* Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced the Thermo Scientific* SampleManager 11*, the newest, most configurable version of one of the world’s most widely deployed laboratory information management systems (LIMS). SampleManager 11 features advanced new tools and user-interface enhancements that improve laboratory process mapping, management and automation.

RURO, Inc., an industry leader of Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) and Sample Management Solutions will exhibit at Pittcon 2013, the world’s largest annual premier conference and exposition on laboratory science. Visit RURO March 18-21 at Booth # 1806, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, USA.