The DIA 2012 Annual Meeting features 280+ sessions across 22 tracks, including comprehensive coverage of today's hottest topics, such as PDUFA V, biosimilars, tailored therapies, personalized medicine, social media, region-specific content, and much more!

Definiens®, the leading provider of image analysis and data mining solutions for quantitative digital pathology, today announced the release of Definiens Image Miner™ 2. The new product provides researchers in the life sciences with deeper insights into underlying biology by integrating image with data analysis. Image Miner 2 makes the wealth of information in biomedical images accessible, accelerating life sciences research and allowing for successful biomarker development

Life Technologies Corporation and Boston Children's Hospital, home of the world's largest pediatric research enterprise, today announced a research and development collaboration to develop an end-to-end genetic sequencing lab workflow based on Life Technologies' Ion Proton™ Sequencer. The parties plan to collaborate and develop an optimized laboratory infrastructure and lab protocols for an advanced sequencing facility to be built at Boston Children's in compliance with CLIA and CAP certification standards.

Visitors to WWEM 2012 (Telford, UK, 7th/8th Nov) the Water Wastewater & Environmental Monitoring event, can now register for free at www.wwem.uk.com. This year’s event is the fifth since its inception in 2005, and continues to grow in popularity with over 120 exhibitors, 80 workshops and a gala MCERTS presentation dinner in addition to the two major conferences.

Survey findings released today by Octagon Research Solutions, Inc. shows that global life sciences companies continue to confront major hurdles in their mission-critical enterprise document management processes. The research was focused on the significant challenges and priorities facing emerging and large Pharma and biotech companies in the management of information throughout the clinical and regulatory lifecycle.

Comprehensive and genuine configurability, without writing custom code or using a programming script, is a rare commodity in the LIMS business but it is the key to a successful LIMS implementation.

Autoscribe Ltd started the 2012 financial year with its best ever four week period for sales of its new Matrix Gemini LIMS. Six new system orders were placed in the UK plus one significant upgrade and two further system orders were confirmed by the US subsidiary, Autoscribe informatics.

Autoscribe continues to develop its Matrix Gemini (LIMS) family by introducing a new stability study module replacing the well-established Matrix Plus system. Matrix Gemini Stability retains the protocol management features and the sample handling processes together with analytical result capture. As standard the system provides a fully integrated statistics module that provides graphical interpretations including predictions of product shelf life well before the study is complete.

PAREXEL International Corporation, a leading global biopharmaceutical services provider, today announced the launch of the PAREXEL MyTrials™ platform, a fully-integrated eClinical solution that simplifies the clinical trial process. Developed by PAREXEL's technology subsidiary Perceptive Informatics, PAREXEL MyTrials is an eClinical platform designed by clinical research experts to provide comprehensive support for the drug development process.

Pacific Biosciences of California, Inc., today launched a new and unique solution to detect DNA base modifications associated with epigenetic regulation and DNA damage using the PacBio® RS High Resolution Genetic Analyzer.

DataServices, LLC, a leading provider of Electronic Laboratory Results and Portal solutions, announced today the introduction of a new version of its Lab Connector product for SaaS computing environments. The new solution, Lab Connections, is a portal designed to work with facilities that provide thousands of medical lab tests, from multiple lab testing facilities.

Abbott announced it has acquired STARLIMS’s Asia Pacific distribution partner, currently operating as STARLIMS Australasia. The organization will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Abbott operating under the name STARLIMS Australasia. The acquisition will support and the Asia Pacific LIMS business and help accelerate growth in Australia and New Zealand, as well as other Asia Pacific markets. STARLIMS Australasia will become part of the STARLIMS Asia Pacific organization.

STARLIMS is expanding its worldwide presence in the forensics market with products and applications designed for crime labs, evidence collection teams and police property rooms. The company is building a strong presence and reputation in crime labs, and early adopters are pleased with the performance and workflow enhancements to its web-based LIMS software. Timothy French, DNA analyst for the Beaufort County (SC) Sheriff’s Office, decided it was time to use an outside LIMS provider when the waiting time for DNA tests results from the state crime lab reached a year or longer.

STARLIMS announced that its LIMS software has been adopted by the Australian Red Cross Blood Services (ARCBS) to manage information and data in its blood products manufacturing and transplantation laboratories. ARCBS collects and processes nearly 30,000 blood donations every week in Australia.

Experts from Medidata Solutions will be driving dialogue in nine conference sessions at the upcoming Drug Information Association’s (DIA) Annual Meeting, to be held June 24-28 in Philadelphia, Pa., and Medidata’s team will discuss current and future clinical research challenges and solutions in areas including protocol design, electronic health records integration and risk-based monitoring.

Knome, Inc., today announced the start of its early technology access program for knomeCLINIC, a software suite designed to help medical researchers and clinicians interpret human genomes for biological relevance. Clinics accepted into the early access program will be given installation priority, access to pilot programs and pre-release prototypes, and the ability to influence knomeCLINIC’s feature set upon general release.

ACE12 provides an environment where water professionals can be leaders and learn from leaders in the water industry. Nowhere else can you find a similar gathering of water professionals from around the world intent on providing leadership and guidance for the future of safe water.

Dataworks Development, Inc. announces the release of a major new upgrade, version 5.1, to its Freezerworks Unlimited freezer inventory and sample management software program.

At the 7th National Molecular and Diagnostic Microbiology Congress in Ankara, Bruker announces an exclusive framework agreement with Duzen ( www.duzen.com.tr ) in the area of molecular microbial identification based on MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry. Duzen is one of the leading private diagnostic laboratory groups in Turkey, and Bruker is the leading provider of mass spectrometry-based microorganism identification solutions worldwide.

Sapio Sciences (http://www.SapioSciences.com) is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Exemplar Biomarker Discovery LIMS. This release is the result of Sapio’s extensive experience in implementing LIMS with Biomarker Discovery at leading pharmaceutical and biotech companies. Exemplar Biomarker Discovery addresses these clients’ needs for a single, integrated solution to a breadth of requirements.