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Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today announced the following at Pittcon 2010: a major new lab informatics suite; a fish species verification lab-on-a-chip system; a major food testing lab collaboration; a high-performance transportable GC/MSD; a high-throughput single quadrupole liquid chromatograph/mass spectrometer (LC/MS). The company also announced a tool to facilitate third-party software control for Agilent LCs.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, strengthens its position as the industry's innovation powerhouse with a comprehensive showing of new high-end analytical instruments, laboratory equipment, software, consumables and reagents at Pittcon 2010, being held from February 28 - March 5 in Orlando.

InterSystems Corporation, the global leader in software for connected healthcare, today announced that InterSystems Ensemble® was the software platform for the first-ever successful electronic transmission of comprehensive genetic data. The information was sent cross-country from Boston-based Partners HealthCare Center for Personalized Genetic Medicine (PCPGM) to Intermountain HealthCare in Salt Lake City, Utah.

IQPC’s 6th Forum on Laboratory Informatics will showcase today’s Laboratory Informatics leaders including individuals from John T. Mather Memorial Hospital, Merck & Co. Inc., Indiana University, Eli Lilly and Co., and Atrium Research & Consulting LLC and more. The conference will be held from March 29 – 31, 2010 at the Hyatt at the Bellevue, Philadelphia, PA.

Sunquest Information Systems®, a leading provider of healthcare diagnostic information technology and outreach solutions, announced that Idaho-based St. Luke’s Health System is preparing to implement a full range of Sunquest solutions in its laboratories.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that The Winvale Group has become a member of its Informatics Global Partner Alliance. The Winvale Group, a total-solutions consultancy specializing in government procurement and the GSA Schedule program, will provide Thermo Fisher informatics solutions for federal, state and local governments operating under GSA Schedule 70.

BioClinica™, Inc., a global provider of clinical trial management services, today announced the launch of BioClinica Optimizer, a breakthrough for clinical supply planning and management that it believes has the potential to transform clinical trial supply forecasting and management.

LabVantage today announced that it will be exhibiting at booth #3769 at the upcoming Pittsburgh Conference (Pittcon), Orlando, FL, March 1-4, 2010. LabVantage will be showcasing its SAPPHIRE Laboratory Information Management Suite (LIMS), a zero footprint and configurable off-the-shelf (COTS) solution consolidating functionality typically found in multiple laboratory systems. Also, the latest SQL*LIMS products will be demonstrated in detail

SpectralWorks Limited (www.spectralworks.com ), a software development company in the UK has recently supplied the David H Murdock Research Institute (www.dhmri.org ) with their AnalyzerPro™ software. Located at the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolic, NC, DHMRI uses a high performance computing environment for the analysis of large metabolomics datasets. “The inclusion of this software platform in our metabolomic workflow

IDBS, the leading worldwide provider of research data management and analytics solutions to R&D organizations, today announced the availability of InforSense Suite 5.1, the latest release of its next generation scientific business intelligence solution.

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LabVantage today announced the availability of its SAPPHIRE™ Release 5.1 Laboratory Information Management Suite (LIMS). SAPPHIRE is an industry-leading zero footprint and configurable off-the-shelf (COTS) LIMS that consolidates functionality typically found in multiple laboratory systems. SAPPHIRE is readily tailored to manage an organization's laboratory information across its worldwide R&D pipeline and manufacturing supply chain.

CSols, Inc. is pleased to announce the addition of Jeff Policastro, formerly of LabVantage/Applied Biosystems, as the new Business Development Manager.

Siemens new RAPIDComm(R) Data Management and Connectivity Solution Version 3.0 provides point-of-care coordinators and laboratory managers a single interface with real-time access for managing multiple remote Siemens blood gas and urine analyzers-standardizing testing procedures, facilitating compliance and improving risk management for point-of-care testing.

Sunquest, a leading provider of healthcare diagnostic information technology and outreach solutions, has successfully completed system-wide implementation of a software standardization program at seven hospital laboratories of the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. The primary focus of the initiative was to standardize their laboratory operations to a single software solution.

Optibrium, a provider of software solutions for drug discovery, will be showcasing StarVue on booth #121 at 2010 Spring ACS National Meeting and Exposition, March 21-25, San Francisco, CA, USA. Optibrium's StarVue is a free desktop application that enables scientists to quickly and conveniently view compound structures and data.

Gentel Biosciences, a leader in proteomics discovery tools, today launched the Gentel Proteomics Multi-System™ providing “scan-to-analysis” functionality for multiplex immunoassays, lysate and antigen arrays as well as Western Blot, ELISA and tissue imaging, delivering multi-application value to researchers worldwide.

There is mystery and debate surrounding the word “configuration” in the context of LIMS. Most vendors claim that their systems are configurable but it is the method of configuration that is the key to success, fast implementation, long system lifetime and excellent return on investment.

There is mystery and debate surrounding the word “configuration” in the context of LIMS. Most vendors claim that their systems are configurable but it is the method of configuration that is the key to success, fast implementation, long system lifetime and excellent return on investment. Autoscribe is now embarking on a series of Configuration Workshops initially in several locations in the UK and Ireland with the first being in Edinburgh. The workshops will include a demonstration of how the tools are used to define workflows, screens and menus, for example. Dashboards are a new requirement in modern systems but with Autoscribe you do not need new code just some configuration - and this will be shown.