Agilent Technologies Inc. and Surety, LLC, today announced that Maquet SA of Ardon, France, has purchased the Agilent OpenLAB ELN electronic lab notebook bundled with Surety's AbsoluteProof third-party, digital timestamping service. The combined solution bolsters Maquet's long-term ability to protect and legally defend the authenticity and ownership of its scientific intellectual property (IP).

To remove the barrier of the high cost associated with Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) applications London-based start-up company, Two Fold Software Limited, is now offering a ‘rental payment option’ for the company’s new, easy-to-use Qualoupe LIMS solution that offers major productivity gains, improved quality management and reporting flexibility.

GE Intelligent Platforms today announced the signing of a cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) with the US Environmental Protection Agency's National Risk Management Research Laboratory (NRMRL) focusing on connecting dissimilar data sources into a software-based platform that improves decision making capabilities across a water system.

IN/US Systems Inc, manufacturer of the Beta-RAM radio detector, has changed its name to LabLogic Systems Inc, bringing it into line with radio-chromatography software specialist LabLogic Systems Ltd, by which it was acquired three years ago.

Geospiza and Maryland-based SAIC-Frederick Inc. are collaborating to adapt Geospiza’s software platform to a new generation of rapid, high-resolution gene sequencing technology to potentially accelerate cancer research and help develop new treatments.

KIKA™ Clinical Solutions continues to drive EDC technology innovation with Veracity™ 3.10, the latest release of its market-leading, advanced EDC platform. KIKA is the leading provider of advanced EDC solutions for Clinical Asset Management™ for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device markets.

IDBS, the leading worldwide provider of data management and analytics solutions to R&D and healthcare organizations, today announced that it has concluded an agreement to acquire Quantrix, an award-winning company that provides business modeling and analytics software and services.

For professional chemists, drawing chemical structures can be done with the click of a mouse. For students of organic chemistry, however, practicing this essential skill is much more complicated, as the limitations of electronic homework platforms make it difficult to draw chemical structures in a digital environment. To solve this problem, McGraw-Hill Higher Education has partnered with CambridgeSoft to integrate ChemDraw® - the molecular editor used by today's chemistry professionals - into McGraw-Hill Connect Chemistry. Connect Chemistry is a unique web-based assignment and assessment platform designed for organic chemistry courses.

Autoscribe’s Matrix Tracker software is being used to address one of the most important issues facing research organizations, pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. The tracking and tracing of an ever increasing number of bio-specimens (tissue, fluids, DNA samples, slides etc.) stored in bio-banks and bio-repositories.

Autoscribe has released a new brochure describing the use of their highly configurable Matrix Tracker software for biobank and biorepository applications. The software can be used to help track and trace the ever increasing number of bio-specimens (tissue, fluids, DNA samples, slides etc.) stored in bio-banks and bio-repositories.

Autoscribe has just released version 5.2.7 of its highly configurable Matrix Gemini software. This latest version has been tested on the current version of the Windows platform to confirm it’s compatibility with Windows 7.

Wockhardt UK is a diverse pharmaceuticals company created from the merger of CP Pharmaceuticals and the Wallis Laboratory. Its FDA-approved manufacturing facility adopted a laboratory information management system (LIMS) as part of its continuous focus on quality. The company selected Thermo Scientific Nautilus LIMS(TM) to improve efficiencies and ensure GMP compliance within its UK-based manufacturing facility.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that it is a winner of Microsoft Corporation’s Life Sciences Innovation Awards 2010, for the third consecutive year. The award recognizes best-in-class companies for their innovative use of Microsoft-based solutions.

Software Helps Higher Education Institutions Comply with New Federal Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards

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Simulations Plus, Inc. , a leading provider of simulation and modeling software for pharmaceutical discovery and development, has announced the launch of Version 7.0 of GastroPlus, the industry’s gold standard software for the simulation of drug absorption, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics.

Accelrys, Inc., the leading scientific informatics software and services company, today announced the release of Symyx Notebook 6.5 by Accelrys. This latest release of the multi-disciplinary Symyx electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) delivers improvements supporting chemical process development, production scale-up, and administrative compliance in pharmaceutical, fine chemicals, agrochemical, and consumer products markets.

Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) announced today that it has signed an agreement under which Ventana Medical Systems Inc., a member of the Roche Group, will acquire 100 percent of BioImagene, Inc., a privately held company based in Sunnyvale, California.

At the CambridgeSoft User Meeting and Conference, CambridgeSoft, a leading provider of software and services for discovery, analysis, and collaboration to the life sciences, and KNIME.com, the company behind the professional open source workflow tool KNIME will announce the execution of a wide-ranging collaboration agreement. Under the agreement, CambridgeSoft will sell, support, and service the KNIME platform in enterprise R&D environments, and both companies will work to tighten the integration of KNIME.com and CambridgeSoft products.

Pilgrim Software, Inc., a world-leading provider of Enterprise Risk, Compliance and Quality Management (ERCQM) software solutions, today announced it has elevated its Microsoft Partner status to Gold Certified Partner as an independent software vendor (ISV) in the Microsoft Corporation Partner Program. In earning this distinction, Pilgrim has demonstrated continued commitment to industry standards in solutions and technology.