PACS offers monthly short courses in major cities. Courses can also be provided at the client's time and place. The remaining 2011 month and city schedule is November Orlando FL; December Miami FL. The 2012 public schedule is below for planning purposes

Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. (Ventana), a member of the Roche Group, announced today a first-of-its-kind integration of the VIRTUOSO digital pathology software and VANTAGE workflow management solution, bringing unprecedented workflow integration to the anatomic pathology lab.

Today, Molecular Devices, LLC, a leader in bioanalytical systems for drug discovery, life science research, and bioassay/test development, today announced the launch of SoftMax® Pro 6 Microplate Data and Analysis Software. SoftMax Pro software is the industry standard with superior data analysis capabilities critical to researchers in R&D, drug manufacturing, quality control, and analysis in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries.

Procedure tracking and data collection in labs, plants and clinics will be easier and more accurate for adopters of Protocol Labacus software for tablets, released today by Abacalab Inc.

Ensures Companies have Defensible Data to Comply with the Safe Drinking Water Act

Education - Collaboration - Innovation.

Based on input from many STARLIMS users, Forum2012 aims to address the interesets of labs in multiple industries and disciplines. Forum2012 is an opportunity to share know-how and to strengthen collaboration between the global STARLIMS community. The dates are March 6-9 in Fort Lauderdale, FL. Register today and enjoy discounted registration rates.

Falmouth, MA. October 25th, 2011 – Zumatrix, Inc. announces that they have published a case study from the City of Henderson. The City of Henderson (population 277,500) is located adjacent to Las Vegas and along with North Las Vegas, Las Vegas and Clarke County, discharges treated wastewater into Lake Mead, via the “Las Vegas Wash”. Matrix LIMS is developed by Autoscribe, Ltd. and implemented by Zumatrix in North America.

Leica Microsystems announce the launch of its clinical workflow solution for Digital Pathology at Pathology Visions 2011. Digital Image Hub Enterprise* with its powerful image manage­ment, integration and communication capabilities, in conjunction with a new high performance, intuitive client viewer, SlidePath Gateway*, combine to make this the ideal solution for clinical centers moving towards true Digital Pathology implementation.

Freeslate, Inc., the leading provider of high throughput research solutions, announced today that Amgen, Inc. has entered into a collaborative relationship with the company to leverage Freeslate solutions in addressing aggregation and particulation in protein drug products. he multi-year project will utilize a range of Freeslate products and services, including technology development, high throughput microscale workflows, and Freeslate’s Lab Execution and Analysis (LEA) software.

LabLogic Systems will launch Version 6 of its Debra LIMS for drug metabolism studies at the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists 2011 Annual Meeting and Exposition in Washington DC from 23 to 27 October.

Abacalab, Inc. is proud to announce its Protocol Labacus 1.0 software package for procedure tracking and data collection in mobile work environments. The package will enhance the quality of both data and work in labs, plants and clinics. The planned release date is October 26, 2011 and pre-orders are being accepted through the company website.

RURO, Inc., an innovative developer of life science research productivity solutions today announced the availability of FreezerPro 2012 for laboratories seeking to automate the management and security of frozen samples as well as lab operations.

PACS offers monthly short courses in major cities. Courses can also be provided at the client's time and place. The remaining 2011 month and city schedule is October Pittsburgh PA; November Orlando FL; December Miami FL.

The American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) announces two new webinars for December 2011: A New Era in Down Syndrome Screening on December 7; and Optimizing Clinical Laboratory Test Utilization on December 14. The webinars will commence at 2:00pm Eastern and run for 90 and 60 minutes respectively.

Accelrys, Inc., a leading scientific enterprise R&D software and services company, today announced a strategic collaboration with The Edge Software Consultancy Ltd. to offer new assay, study management and analysis software solutions that improve R&D efficiency and productivity for biopharmaceutical organizations engaged in early-stage screening through ADME, DMPK, pharmacology and in vivo experimentation.

IDBS, a global provider of innovative data management, analytics and modeling solutions, today announced it will host its 3rd annual Translational & Biomarker Research Symposium (TRS) on Wednesday October 19, 2011 in London.

Accelrys, Inc., a leading scientific enterprise R&D software and services company, today announced the new Accelrys Cheminformatics Suite, providing R&D organizations with the most robust, end-to-end solution available to register, search, mine and analyze information on chemical structures and reactions, chemically modified sequences and associated data such as inventory, assay and analytical results

Waters Corporation announced today that its customer Advantar Laboratories, Inc. (San Diego, CA) has successfully completed its rollout of Waters® Empower™ 3 Chromatography Software. The 21CFR Part 11 compliant-ready software will play a key role at Advantar and with its new Method Remediation Services group to meet increased demand by pharmaceutical and contract manufacturing customers for converting legacy HPLC methods to Ultra Performance LC® (UPLC®) methods, which offer greater speed, resolution and sensitivity

Certara, a leading provider of software and services to improve productivity and decision-making from drug discovery through clinical development, announced that it will be the exclusive provider of Chemotargets software for predicting the off-target pharmacology of small molecules

MUSA Technology Partners and Molecular Devices today announced that the two companies have partnered to integrate LabSpeed for Life Sciences [LabSpeed LS] into the suite of analytical instruments and software from Molecular Devices. This partnership will make LabSpeed LS, a modular analytical software package for data management, integration and consolidation of laboratory instrumentation outputs, available to the companies’ mutual clients.