eClinicalWorks®, a market leader in ambulatory clinical systems, today announces that Christie Clinic, one of the largest physician-owned, multi-specialty group medical practices in Illinois, will transition to eClinicalWorks comprehensive electronic health records (EHR) solution for 150 providers across 16 locations. Integration with the practice’s laboratory, radiology, PACS, cardio diagnostics systems, among others, will extend the benefits of this technology.

Accelrys, Inc., a leading enterprise R&D software and services company, today announced that the Gulf Coast Consortia (GCC) for Quantitative Biomedical Sciences has signed a five-year licensing agreement with Accelrys to provide investigators in the GCC Chemical Genomics (GCC-CG) program with access to scientific software, services and training. The Accelrys software will be used to support multi-disciplinary collaborative research and training programs for the treatment and prevention of diseases, including rare and undertreated cancers.

Today Omixon – a genomic software company - announced the commercial release of Omixon Target, a next generation sequencing analysis software for targeted sequencing. Omixon built its new software Target with the vision of helping diagnostic labs to adopt next generation sequencing to replace and complement traditional capillary Sanger sequencing.

As part of a presentation at the recently held 8th International Conference of Clinical Laboratory Automation (the Cherry Blossom Symposium, 11-13 April, Seoul, Korea), invited speaker Dr Rodney Smith Markin discussed NoemaLife’s powerful new middleware solution for clinical laboratories – HALIA – and its ability to deliver improved efficiency, compliance and quality control to laboratories.

Lab Tests Online, a project of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, is pleased to announce “A Guide to Navigating Genetic Testing”, an online overview and resource guide to better understand the rapidly maturing field of genetic testing.

The Pittcon Program Committee is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for a contributed oral or poster presentation for Pittcon 2013, which which will be held March 17-21, 2013, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA.

RURO, Inc., a developer of research software and inventory solutions introduces a more robust lab notes system in Sciency 3.5.

STARLIMS News Notes - May 2012

STARLIMS to Provide LIMS to Australian Red Cross
Samsung Biologics Chooses STARLIMS
STARLIMS Expanding Global Market Presence in Forensics
Global Expansion Continues: STARLIMS Acquires Australian Distributor

EQUICARE CS, a cancer survivorship case management software program jointly offered by Varian Medical Systems and Equicare Health, Inc., has been included by the American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer (CoC) in its "Best Practices Repository." The repository is a list of resources designed to help cancer treatment centers in the U.S. adopt rigorous standards for high-quality patient-centered care, in order to qualify to become CoC-accredited cancer programs.

Accelrys, Inc., a leading scientific enterprise R&D software and services company, today announced it is enabling up to 400 scientists at 16 leading universities in the UK to evaluate the low-cost, easy-to-deploy and use Contur Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) offered by Accelrys' Contur Software subsidiary.

Advanced Biological Laboratories (ABL) announced today that DeepChek® and ViroScore® Suite clinical genotyping solutions are now CE-IVD (In Vitro Diagnostics) approved for commercial use in Europe and other countries that recognise CE certification.

NoemaLife, Europe’s leading provider of clinical and hospital software solutions, will exhibit the company’s HALIA middleware for clinical chemistry, microbiology and molecular biology labs at this year’s AACC (American Association of Clinical Chemists) Annual Meeting (15-19 July 2012, Los Angeles, CA).

)--XenneX, a Division of LifeMap Sciences, Inc. and BioTime, Inc. (NYSE Amex:BTX), announced today the release of GeneCards®, Version 3.08, on May 20, 2012. The new release is available at www.genecards.org.

Wednesday - May 23, 2012 2pm EDT

Are you trying to improve your laboratory’s systems and processes? Many companies look to leverage informatics solutions to increase laboratory throughput, bolster compliance, and enhance business operations. Fortunately, there are a variety of potential LIMS & ELN solutions to help meet your objectives. But making the right decision may become a challenge due to the plethora of solutions and their overlapping functionalities. In this one hour webinar, understand why making the right choice is the most critical factor controlling the success of your project. Take home a proven approach for system selection.

Free educational webinars to focus on how laboratories leverage technology to increase efficiency, improve quality, and reduce costs. ChemWare is pleased to announce the kick-off of its series of educational webinars focusing on technology issues and trends in the laboratory industry. These quarterly webinars will present laboratory, technology, business and operations personnel with information and case studies on current industry technology developments.

Cartagenia, the world leader in providing diagnostic knowledge, analytic software and database systems to genetic labs and clinicians for patient-centric high-throughput variant assessment and clinical reporting, announces that it has signed contracts with two Canadian customers, including Mississauga, Ontario-based Credit Valley Hospital.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, is showcasing its Thermo Scientific TargetQuan 3 data processing software at ASMS 2012. It is designed for laboratories that analyze and report data on persistent organic pollutants (POPs).

New system in TripleTOF(TM) family delivers advanced features, including SWATH(TM) Acquisition, SelexION(TM) compatibility and software that is capable of supporting 21 CFR Part 11 compliance

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that its Thermo Scientific Watson LIMS (laboratory information management system) offers enhanced functionality for large molecule bioanalysis in pharmaceutical and contract research organization (CRO) laboratories. Watson LIMS™ now integrates the data from both small and large molecule research within a single database by facilitating the workflow and extending instrument integration to large molecule bioanalysis. Watson extends the flexibility of the cutpoint calculations in the immune response module (IRM) and allows samples analyzed with the IRM to be processed through Watson’s incurred sample reanalysis (ISR) functionality

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today launched innovative software and instrumentation that extend the capabilities of its flagship mass spectrometry portfolio. The new Thermo Scientific technologies made their debut at the ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry and Allied