LabVantage today announced that its Customer Training & Education Conference (CTEC) will be held from April 18 to 22, 2010, at Disney's Grand Floridian Resort, Orlando, Florida. As the first combined user group meeting for SAPPHIRE™, SQL*LIMS®, and LVL™ customers, CTEC 2010 is dedicated to providing the latest insights into LabVantage's company strategy & product enhancements, detailed briefings on industry case studies, and hands-on product training.

By Kevin Smith, director of sales, Thermo Fisher Scientific and Colin Thurston, director of product strategy, process industries, informatics, Thermo Fisher Scientific.

The Natural Gas Market Review 2008 published by the International Energy Agency (IEA) forecasted that global demand for natural gas will continue to grow at a fast pace, with liquefied natural gas (LNG) exhibiting a dramatic increase of output1. The latest Oil Market Report of IEA, published in August 2008, reveals that global oil product demand for 2008 was 86.9 mb/d (+0.9% versus 2007) and is expected to reach 87.8 mb/d in 2009 (+1.1% versus 2008)2. The upstream stages of exploration and characterization of oil and gas play a crucial role towards timely production, allowing for global petrochemical companies to address increasing demand.

This article discusses the challenges facing the oil and gas processing industry and stresses the necessity for LIMS deployment. It also details the main benefits resulting from LIMS integration in the oil and gas exploration and characterization stages and provides a real-life application example to further demonstrate the benefits.

Tripos(R), a leading provider of drug discovery informatics products and services, today announced that Pfizer has become the latest customer of Benchware(R) Discovery 360 (D360). The novel license agreement allows Pfizer to deploy the capabilities of D360 to all scientists within its worldwide research sites.

Symyx Technologies, Inc. today announced the release of Symyx JDraw Applet—a no-fee Java program that enables software developers to add chemical structure and reaction capabilities to Web applications. Scientists using Symyx JDraw Applet can rapidly draw and display accurate chemical structures and reactions in a Web browser while leveraging Symyx's leading chemistry representation technology.

icerca Biosciences is pleased to announce the validation and implementation of the Watson Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) for the company’s bioanalysis division.

Liquent, Inc. today announced Omnicare Clinical Research has licensed LiquentConnect(R) - a hosted software as a service (SaaS) solution used to quickly and easily create, review, amend and submit regulatory dossiers. Omnicare Clinical Research is a leading Phase I to IV global contract research organization serving the biopharmaceutical and medical device industries.

The new Matrix Gemini EM provides all the functionality for defining a complete environmental monitoring protocol including a sampling plan and testing schedule.

Matrix LIMS Express is a new system from Autoscribe Limited that offers a low cost entry level system for the smaller laboratory or for a single department within a larger organization.

LIMS CONFIGURATION WORKSHOP 18 February , 2010 Edinburgh, UK

PerkinElmer, Inc., a global leader focused on the health and safety of people and the environment, is introducing an extensive portfolio of chromatography and spectroscopy products at Analytica 2010

Labtronics Inc. announces that Nexxis SDMS, a web-based Scientific Data Management System, is now included as a fully integrated component of Nexxis ELN, their versatile, web-based Electronic Laboratory Notebook.

Labtronics Inc. announces that LimsLink, the industry's leading instrument/LIMS integration solution, now includes Nexxis SDMS, a web-based Scientific Data Management System that provides laboratories with secure central storage and retrieval of scientific data and documentation.

Syrris, a leading chemistry automation product innovator, has introduced the Atlas Reporting Software to enable easy graphical analysis of sophisticated log files generated by the Atlas Base Unit, Atlas Software or Atlas Syringe Pump. Graphs can be created in seconds using the Wizard style software, which incorporates an easy-to-use, “drag and drop” interface.

NVIDIA today announced the Tesla Bio Workbench, which enables scientists to push the boundaries of biological research by turning a standard PC into a "computational laboratory" capable of running complex bioscience codes in fields such as drug discovery and DNA sequencing more than 10-20 times faster through the use NVIDIA® Tesla™ GPUs.

PACS short courses Orlando FL in February and March, Los Angeles CA in April, and Pittsburgh PA in May. Continuing education is important to your career and firm's success. PACS provides public and on-site courses, consulting, R&D, routine and advanced laboratory testing services and the International Activated Carbon Conference in Los Angeles CA on April 27-28 and the Activated Carbon School on April 24 thru May 1.

Symyx Technologies, Inc. has announced two new product offerings, Isentris Forms and Isentris Data Miner. Symyx Isentris was initially introduced to provide customers of its market-leading ISIS cheminformatics software a migration path to improved R&D decision support flexibility and productivity

Recently, CLC bio released their enterprise platform for Next Generation Sequencing data analysis, CLC Genomics Server, in version 2.0. It has been expanded with a wide range of new and improved features assisting organizations of any size in building and managing a modern, flexible, and efficient enterprise platform for analyzing and handling high-throughput sequencing data.

Chemistry and related departments can win up to $5000 in ACD/Labs chemistry software for their school or research project.

Rescentris announced its leading ELN product is available as Software as a Service (SaaS). Cloud-based eCERF™ delivers the full-featured functionality of awardwinning CERF, combining compliant electronic recordkeeping with data and document management to improve laboratory efficiency and access to scientific information.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, will highlight its comprehensive portfolio of offerings for biobanks and biorepositories during the Biobanking 2010 conference. The company will exhibit across two booths in the sponsored booth area within the Earls Court Conference Centre in London, UK, February 4 - 5, 2010.