RURO, Inc., an award winning developer of innovative scientific applications that facilitate asset management and increase productivity of various laboratories, today announced a new government services partnership agreement with Technical Communities, Inc., -one of the fastest growing suppliers of technical solutions to the US government.

Building on their industry reputation as the leader in genomic data analysis and visualization, Partek Incorporated, announced today the release of two new products: Partek® Flow™ and Partek® Pathway™. Bookending their award winning software, Partek® Genomics Suite™, Partek Flow provides upstream alignment, QA/QC and quantification of next generation sequencing (NGS) data, whereas Partek Pathway provides contextualization of the gene relationships identified within Partek Genomics Suite.

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical, and medical information products and services, announced today the acquisition of the business assets of Ariadne Genomics, a provider of pathway analysis tools and semantic technologies for life science researchers. Ariadne will be integrated with Elsevier’s Corporate Markets division.

Instem, a leading provider of early development software applications, announced today that China's National Center for Safety Evaluation of Drugs (NCSED) has selected Instem's Provantis(R) software solution suite to automate their preclinical study processes.

PathCentral, Inc., the first and only company focused exclusively on the success of the community pathologist, announced today it has entered into an agreement to provide its web-based anatomic pathology laboratory information system (APLIS) to Kindstar Globalgene Technology, Inc.

ChemAxon, a leader in providing chemical software development platforms and desktop applications for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, today announced its move to expanded European headquarters in Budapest, Hungary. The new offices will enable ChemAxon to meet the needs of its rapidly growing customer base, and provide a modern working environment that supports the company’s agile software development methodology.

Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) and Sirius Analytical Instruments, Ltd. are pleased to announce a partnership that enables users to predict pKa, logP, and solubility values using ACD/Labs software prior to taking measurements on the SiriusT3 instrument—focusing experimental efforts.

Accelrys, Inc., a leading scientific enterprise R&D software and services company, has announced new, out-of-the-box workflow orchestration and analysis capabilities that improve project, study, experiment and sample management for scientists.

LABOTIX® Automation, Inc., the leader in open automation solutions for clinical laboratories, is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a contract by Maccabi Healthcare Services in Tel-Aviv, Israel to upgrade the clinical laboratory automation system at the MegaLab in Rehovot. LABOTIX installed the original automation solution for Maccabi over ten years ago.

BioData Ltd., a scientific software company funded by Digital Science, a division of Macmillan Publishers, today launched Labguru, a research management tool designed for academic labs. Labguru's customizable and affordable web application helps researchers plan experiments, track progress, share results and comments, manage inventories, and organize related documents, protocols and data.

The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) recently published Establishing Molecular Testing in Clinical Laboratory Environments; Approved Guideline (MM19-A). This document provides comprehensive guidance for planning and implementation of molecular diagnostic testing, including strategic planning, regulatory requirements, implementation, quality management, and special considerations for the subspecialties of molecular genetics, infectious diseases, oncology, and pharmacogenetics.

Accelrys, a leading scientific enterprise R&D software and services company, is pleased to announce that Chr. Hansen has selected the on-premise iLabber electronic lab notebook (ELN) from Accelrys' wholly-owned subsidiary Contur for global knowledge management across the enterprise.

LABVANTAGE established key presence within the global food and beverage sector by building business relationships with renowned organizations. Leading manufacturers like Britvic PLC, which manages over twenty thousand samples daily, recognize LABVANTAGE as the top choice in LIMS for their food quality and safety operations, supporting key operations such as microbiology, chemistry, and sensory (stability) testing. In the business of food safety, they agree on one critical goal: bacterial outbreak prevention.

Zix Corporation, the leader in email encryption services, was selected by ICON Central Laboratories to provide lab reports through an encrypted email solution for select sites participating in clinical trials.

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Perceptive Informatics ®, a leading eClinical solutions provider and a subsidiary of PAREXEL International Corporation, today announced that its DataLabs® Electronic Data Capture (EDC) solution ranked highest among EDC solutions for overall satisfaction in ISR's 2011 The State of The EDC Market Report, an independent study conducted by Industry Standard Research (ISR).

Accelrys, Inc., a leading scientific enterprise R&D software and services company, has announced a new release of the Materials Studio® modeling and simulation environment. Supporting today’s increasing reliance on micro- and nanoscale engineering, Materials Studio 6.0 enables scientists to relate product performance with material properties and behavior at the molecular and atomic scales.

Mitomics Inc., a pioneer in the development of molecular tests based on the mitochondrial genome, has implemented Sapio Sciences Exemplar LIMS where it serves a foundational role in the operations of Mitomics. Phase One of the project was implemented in an unprecedented 3 months and encompassed a large scope including a fully electronic process for physician test requests of the Prostate Core Mitomic Test (PCMT ™), to detailed lab processing workflows.

Ground-breaking LIMS software developer, Two Fold Software Limited has added a versatile Multi-Groups capability to its innovative Qualoupe LIMS solution. The software enhancement offers complete data management flexibility for organizations and companies that not only have multiple sites but also include multiple laboratories within each site.

ChemAxon, a leader in providing chemical software development platforms and desktop applications for the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, announces the addition of a PDF Document Viewer to its open access chemicalize.org service.