The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today released a new tool to help growers, packers, processors, manufacturers, warehousers, transporters, and retailers in the food industry determine the vulnerability of individual food facilities to biological, chemical, or radiological attack.

QSI have introduced new customer support services for WinLIMS Rental. WinLIMS Rental has proved to be particularly popular with smaller laboratories and businesses for whom the outright purchase of a LIMS would be out of the question.

Applied Biosystems, an Applera Corporation business, today announced a new software application designed to accelerate the analysis of genetic variation data. The new Variant Reporter™ Software reduces manual review time of these data by automating the detection of genetic variants and streamlining the data analysis process.

A new Internet-based information system that will help oil and gas producers find technical solutions to problems has been developed by researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory with funding through the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL), provided by the Office of Fossil Energy's Oil and Natural Gas Program.

Applied Biosystems (NYSE:ABI), an Applera Corporation business, today announced a new software application designed to accelerate the analysis of genetic variation data. The new Variant Reporter™ Software reduces manual review time of these data by automating the detection of genetic variants and streamlining the data analysis process.

CEDRA Clinical Research, LLC (CEDRA), one of the nation’s pre-eminent contract research organizations, announced today that it will begin conducting Phase 1 trials elec-tronically with LabPas CT in August.

Chenomx, Inc., a leading provider of software and compound libraries for NMR-based metabolomics, and GeneGo, Inc., a worldwide leader in data analysis solutions for systems biology and pathway analysis, are pleased to announce a partnership to provide metabolomics data integration between their software products.

National Instruments today announced the release of NI Lookout 6.1, a Windows Vista-compatible version of its Web-enabled human machine interface (HMI) and SCADA software system.

Green Mountain Logic (GML), a leading provider of Phase I clinical trial soft-ware, announced today that the company and Phase Forward, a leading provider of data management solutions for clinical trials and drug safety have agreed to work towards developing an interface between GML’s LabPas CT™ product and Phase Forward’s InForm™ ITM electronic data capture (EDC) product.

Aegis Analytical Corporation, a leading provider of software solutions and services for life sciences manufacturers, announced today it has released Discoverant 3.1, an enhanced version of its manufacturing process management software suite.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, announces a new strategic partnership with Megaware, a life science technology organization, to deliver a new bioanalysis/equivalence solution and joint support services for pharmaceutical, biotech and Contract Research Organizations (CROs).

LabPas CT, the leading Phase I Clinical Trial Software and Phoenix Data Systems (PDS), a global leader in Electronic Data Capture (EDC), announce that they have agreed to interface their products for Phase I clinical trials.

Interactive Supercomputing Inc. (ISC) today unveiled a new version of its Star-P(TM) software designed to accelerate time-to-discovery and boost productivity for users in the life sciences industries.

Symyx Technologies, Inc. announced today that Symyx Tools and Software are being used in the California Institute of Technology’s (Caltech) new Center for Catalysis and Chemical Synthesis (3CS).

Symyx Technologies, Inc. today announced that Symyx Software Discovery Notebook 4.1 will be available in the third quarter of 2007.

ChemSW, Inc. today announced the release of a revised and greatly expanded version of their ground-breaking white paper detailing best practices in chemical inventory management. An industry first, this white paper provides insights into leveraging industry best practices when implementing a chemical inventory system to help ensure system adoption and successful incorporation into lab processes.

Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced new FDA-compliance features for MassHunter Workstation. MassHunter is the high-productivity software that provides intuitive instrument control, data acquisition, qualitative and quantitative data analysis and reporting for the Agilent 6410 Triple Quadrupole liquid chromatography/mass spectrometer (LC/MS) system.

Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced plans to launch MassHunter Metabolite ID software, the newest member of its MassHunter Workstation software suite. Available by August, this software will greatly enhance productivity for researchers involved in metabolite identification, which is the study of modifications that pharmaceuticals and agrochemicals undergo in biological systems.

Visionary Medical Systems today announced that it has acquired Antek HealthWare, LLC, a privately held company based outside Baltimore, MD, that develops practice management and laboratory information software for the healthcare industry.

New Tool Automates Test Generation and Property Proving for Model-Based Design Using Formal-Methods Engine from Prover Technology