July 9, 2009 - Linguamatics Extends License to its Agile Text Mining Platform for AstraZeneca

Linguamatics, a leader in enterprise text mining for the life science and other markets, today announced that AstraZeneca, a customer of Linguamatics since 2003, has extended its license to the I2E semantic knowledge-discovery platform with a further multi-year deal.

July 8, 2009 - See the new PET and RadioPharmacy LIMS in Edmonton

Autoscribe and Zumatrix will be exhibiting their new PET and RadioPharmacy LIMS products at ISRS18, Edmonton July 13-16, 2009. Stop by Booth 18 for your personal demonstration or to request further information.

July 8, 2009 - LIMS for Commercial Contract Testing Laboratories.

Despite the very wide variety of materials and associated testing that are serviced by commercial (for profit) testing laboratories, all share many requirements together. These requirements are well addressed by the unique features offered by Matrix Gemini LIMS, clearly shown by this market segment representing over 20% of the total user group.

July 7, 2009 - LIMSfinder.com adds Forums to Linkedin.com to provide more resources to LIMS professionals

LIMSfinder.com is pleased to announce that we have moved our LIMS discussion forums to Linkedin.com.

Visit the LIMS Forum and post articles, questions, jobs and network with thousands of other LIMS professionals. Visit http://www.limsforum.com today and join in. It is quick, easy, free and informative.

There are 7,712 subscribers to LIMSfinder who are also members of Linkedin.com. LIMSfinder and Linkedin represent the best sites for LIMS professionals to network, collaborate and stay informed. The tight integration of LIMSfinder content and LIMS career opportunities with the Linkedin forums provides the LIMSfinder readers with the most dynamic and interactive LIMS community in existence.

July 7, 2009 - AACC ANNOUNCES LABORATORY AUTOMATION CONFERENCE IN KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA

The American Association for Clinical Chemistry announces the third in its series of Laboratory Automation conferences to be held in Asia. This conference, being held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on October 22-23, will address Laboratory Automation: Integrating Quality with Efficiency.

July 7, 2009 - Invitrogen Launches Life Science Industry’s First Complete Resource for Cellular Technologies and Education

Invitrogen, part of Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ:LIFE), today announced the launch of the life-science industry’s first comprehensive online resource for cell biology information and technology.

July 1, 2009 - Ambient ID Unveils LabTrack™ Diagnostic Specimen Tracking Solution

Proven Automatic Identification and Business Information Management Technologies Improve Diagnostic Laboratory Operations, Reduce Testing Costs

June 30, 2009 - Thermo Fisher Scientific Wins Prestigious Microsoft Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Innovation Award in Informatics for Second Consecutive Year

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that it has been named the winner of the Microsoft Corporation 2009 Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Innovation Award in the Discovery and Product Innovation category, for the second consecutive year.

June 30, 2009 - Life Technologies to Divest Laboratory Information Management Software Business

Life Technologies Corporation, a provider of innovative life science solutions, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to sell its SQL*LIMS business to LabVantage Solutions, Inc. for an undisclosed amount.

June 30, 2009 - Phase Forward Customer GlaxoSmithKline Signs Multi-Year Agreements

Phase Forward, a leading provider of data management solutions for clinical trials and drug safety, today announced that GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has signed multi-year, multi-million dollar contracts covering Licensing and Study Support Services. GSK and Phase Forward also have a multi-year agreement in place for hosting services

June 30, 2009 - LabVantage® to Acquire Life Technologies’ SQL*LIMS® Business

LabVantage Solutions, Inc. will acquire Life Technologies Corporation’s SQL*LIMS business, uniting the premier thin-client LIMS, SAPPHIRE™, with a significant global footprint of experienced LIMS professionals

June 30, 2009 - Join the LIMS Jobs Group at Linkedin.com and build your professional network

A new LIMS professional network group has been formed at Linkedin.com.  Be sure to join this group by visiting: http://www.limsjobs.com.

June 29, 2009 - CLC bio Reveals Biocomputing Solution at ISMB 2009 in Stockholm

Today, at the 17th international conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) and 8th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) in Stockholm, Sweden, CLC bio has revealed their first turnkey biocomputing solution for analyzing and visualizing Next Generation Sequencing data, called CLC Genomics Machine.

June 29, 2009 - ISRS18, Edmonton – PET and RadioPharmacy LIMS

Autoscribe and Zumatrix will be exhibiting their new PET and RadioPharmacy LIMS products at ISRS18, Edmonton July 13-16, 2009. Stop by Booth 18 for your personal demonstration or to request further information.

June 26, 2009 - IDBS Acquires InforSense to Provide End-to-End Solutions for Research & Development Data Management

IDBS, a leading provider of innovative data management solutions to multinational R&D organizations, today announced that it has concluded an unconditional agreement to acquire InforSense Ltd (InforSense), a company providing award-winning scientific and business intelligence (BI) technologies, in an all-cash transaction. The acquisition will complete in July.

June 25, 2009 - Thermo Fisher Scientific Delivers Enterprise-Wide Connectivity with Integration Manager – an Enterprise Level Data Transformation Tool

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, introduces Integration Manager™ - a flexible, powerful data transformation tool for automated data acquisition and point-to-point data distribution across the enterprise.

June 23, 2009 - Agilent Technologies’ New Electronic Lab Notebook Expedites Decisions, Helps Users Manage Workflows and Collaborate

Agilent Technologies Inc. today introduced a major upgrade to its electronic lab notebook (ELN). Kalabie ELN version 4.0 contains new functions to expedite decision-making, manage analytical requests and increase collaboration between colleagues

June 23, 2009 - Phase Forward Announces WebSDM™ Release 3.0, with Support for CDISC Version 3.1.2 Standard

Phase Forward, a leading provider of data management solutions for clinical trials and drug safety, today announced the availability of WebSDM™ Release 3.0.

June 23, 2009 - Phase Forward Customers Automate Adverse Event Reporting Management with Empirica™ Trace

Phase Forward, a leading provider of data management solutions for clinical trials and drug safety, today pointed to a growing list of customers adopting its Empirica™ Trace safety solution over the past year for comprehensive adverse event management.

June 23, 2009 - Drug metabolism LIMS in demand for clinical studies

LabLogic Systems reports a rapid rise in the number of clinical studies being performed using its drug metabolism LIMS Debra.