Gain valuable, real-world ideas and solutions for managing your LabWare LIMS. With a full team of LabWare LIMS experts on hand at the 2012 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.

An interdisciplinary team of microbiologists, plant bioengineers and bioinformatics experts of the Leibniz Institute DSMZ - German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures in Braunschweig has developed an application-oriented software package for the analysis of Biolog high-throughput phenotypic data.

imulations Plus, Inc., a leading provider of simulation and modeling software and consulting services for pharmaceutical discovery and development, announced today the release of Version 8.0 of its flagship GastroPlus™ simulation software with significantly expanded functionality and user convenience.

NovoPath, Inc., a leader in Anatomic Pathology (AP) Best-of-Breed Software Solutions, announces the first smartphone apps for Android and Apple users, enabling secure on-the-go access to full-length AP reports. The implementation of NovoNotifier Mobile means clinicians receiving AP reports from NovoPath partner laboratories now have a unique tool at their disposal, assisting in their quest to provide the very best care to their patients.

Illumina, Inc. today introduced BaseSpace Apps, a dedicated applications store for BaseSpace, the Company’s genomics cloud computing platform. Informatics solutions available through BaseSpace Apps will allow customers to connect with a growing community of academic, commercial and open source tool providers who are building applications around Illumina data to dramatically simplify and accelerate genomic data analysis.

Aspera, Inc. (http://www.asperasoft.com/), creators of next-generation software technologies that move the world’s data at maximum speed, today announced at Bio-IT World (booth #334) that BGI, the world’s largest genomics organization, is integrating Aspera’s patented fasp™ high-speed file transfer technology as an integral feature of EasyGenomics™, BGI’s latest cloud-based software as a service (SaaS) next-generation bioinformatics platform.

Genome Designs, Inc., custom genome annotation and metabolic modelling service provider, today announced a partnership with SciDM Group, a bioinformatics tools developer. Genome Designs will be using SciDM Group’s high performance database engine, transcriptomics data processing pipeline, and high throughput sequence comparison technology. The tools will be used to augment Genome Designs’ existing genome annotation pipelines and to boost custom software development projects for clients.

ELN Technologies, Inc. today announced that it has won Best of Show for Best Web-based Software. The Best of Show award is granted by Bio-IT World Magazine editors and industry experts in recognition of products that are distinguished from the competition. CERF for iPad received the award today at the 10th Anniversary Bio-IT World Conference and Expo 2012 in Boston, MA.

STARLIMS, a leading global LIMS provider, has developed a new global customer service organization and is expanding in Europe through recent acquisitions of distributors serving various markets. Becoming part of Abbott in 2010 has given STARLIMS new resources for business expansion, customer service, new product development and international expansion.

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eClinicalWorks®, a market leader in ambulatory clinical systems, today announced the opening of its new location in Chicago, which will provide a central U.S. presence and focus on implementation of its comprehensive electronic health records (EHR) solution. Currently, the company is headquartered in Massachusetts and has additional offices in New York City, California and Georgia.

Partek Incorporated is debuting new enhancements and features to their next generation sequencing software, Partek® Flow®, at the Bio-IT World Expo and Conference in Boston, April 24-26.

eClinicalWorks®, a market leader in ambulatory clinical systems, announces that Meritas Health Corporation has chosen eClinicalWorks as its electronic medical records (EMR) system. Meritas Health Corporation is a multi-specialty group in Kansas City, Mo., with 72 employed physicians. Designed to improve quality of care, the technology will also provide specialty-specific features as well as interface between eClinicalWorks and the multi-specialty group’s existing Cerner in-patient, LabCorp, and Quest systems, further automating workflow

Xybion Corporation announced that its Pristima Preclinical Software suite has been selected as the primary preclinical platform for drug early-stage drug discovery pathology data management by a Top-5 global biotech firm. The new Xybion client becomes the third major biotech laboratory in the Cambridge Massachusetts Biotechnology Research hub to choose Pristima Suite as the centerpiece for its drug discovery and early stage development efforts.

NoemaLife, Europe’s leading provider of clinical and hospital software solutions, has launched HALIA, new middleware for clinical chemistry, microbiology and molecular biology labs. Utilising a rule-based engine to deliver all-round control over laboratory workflow and sample processing, HALIA’s powerful functionality significantly improves laboratory efficiency, compliance and quality control.

DataServices, LLC is proud to announce the launch of its new global business operation, offering a full-featured web based reporting system with flexible configurations for clinical diagnostic laboratories. DataServices has developed and licenses to users its Software as a Service platform, marketed under the name Lab Connector. The platform includes a suite of options including a unique reporting engine, which provides an easy to use, browser-based system platform, where diagnostic lab partners can view patient’s lab test results in a user-friendly html format, email their patients, fax or print.

Surety, LLC, the leading provider of data integrity protection solutions, and KineMatik, a global leader in R&D collaboration and knowledge management tools, announced today the integration of Surety’s AbsoluteProof data integrity service into KineMatik’s web-based, collaborative R&D lab management system. The combined solution enables R&D organizations in various sectors including government, academia and industry to achieve efficient paperless knowledge capture and protection of their scientific intellectual property (IP) throughout the research and development lifecycle.

NextBio today unveiled NextBio Clinical, an extension of the company’s existing life sciences platform to translational medicine applications such as biomarker discovery and clinical trial optimization. Adding curated genomic, molecular and clinical profiles from thousands of individual patients to the platform’s existing repository of data from animal and cell line models, NextBio Clinical enables the earlier application of clinical information to enhance research and development.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced it will showcase its Thermo Scientific Mining Sample Collection and Preparation Tool kits, comprising the Thermo Scientific Direct Rock Sampler Kit and the Thermo Scientific Electric Hammer Mill Kit, at AAPG 2012 on April 22-25, 2012, at the Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, California, booth #1525. Offering the instruments of choice in elemental analysis solutions for mining and exploration, Thermo Fisher is a pioneer in portable XRF technology.

Simulations Plus, Inc. (NASDAQ: SLP), a leading provider of simulation and modeling software for pharmaceutical discovery and development, announced today the release of ADMET Predictor™ Version 6.0 with an impressive set of expanded and powerful capabilities for molecular property predictions from structure.