For several years my boss, Brian, has been telling me that the perfect solution for a LIMS Certificate of Analysis report would use a solid data extraction algorithm and a flexible XML output. The idea has always sounded interesting to me, except for the fact that the SQL*LIMS product doesn’t include the technology to do such a thing…until now. Today’s article describes how to customize SQL*LIMS and Oracle Reports to send data to XML, and how to convert that XML output to PDF.

Atrium Research, the only market research organization dedicated to scientific informatics, announced today the release of the third edition of company’s ground-breaking report, Electronic Laboratory Notebooks: A Foundation for Scientific Knowledge Management.

Israeli Company Starlims Technologies Files for IPO of Up to $37.4M

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, announces the availability of a new technical poster to highlight the unique plate handling capabilities of Thermo Scientific Nautilus LIMS for high throughput applications.

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.

e2v biosensors, a subsidiary of e2v technologies; its research staff, now use Klee Group’s Kalabie Electronic Lab Notebook Software as the all-day, every-day tool for recording and capitalizing on information from Research and Development activities.

MediSolution Ltd, a leading healthcare and public sector information technology company, today announced that Universal Health Services Inc. (UHS), one of the largest and most respected healthcare management companies in the US, has purchased MediSolution's automated TD-Synergy laboratory information system and Virtuo Business Intelligence solution for a system-wide implementation of their acute care hospitals.

Leipziger Messe, organiser of L.A.B. - the European trade fair and conference devoted to analysis, bio and laboratory equipment - announces that over 80% of booth space in the new exhibition has already been reserved by organisations worldwide.

Chenomx Inc., a leading provider of metabolic profiling services and software, has been awarded two U.S. patents for its innovative Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR)-based mixture analysis algorithms.

ECI Partners, has acquired CliniSys for £61m plus an earn out of up to £2m from its founding shareholders, some of whom are re-investing in the business. Headquartered in Surrey and with operations in Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Spain and Germany, CliniSys is a leading pan-European supplier of Laboratory Information Management Systems (“LIMS”) to the healthcare market.

Software assigns, interprets, and organizes LC/MS data, making it easier to visualize structural relationships between parent drugs and metabolites.

Tessella’s ‘Adaptive Trials Simulation Toolkit’ had been awarded ‘Best of Show’ in the eClinical Technology catagory, at the prestigious Bio-IT World Conference and Expo in Boston MA. The toolkit has been designed to better equip the pharmaceutical community to carry out adaptive clinical trials.

Waters Corporation (NYSE:WAT) and Northeastern University today opened the doors of the new Waters Mass Spectrometry Laboratory within the renowned Barnett Institute of Chemical and Biological Analysis at the University.

Illumina, Inc. today announced the launch of Illumina Connect, a bioinformatics software partnership program established to advance data integration and analysis. This program offers Illumina customers seamless access to third-party bioinformatics providers of advanced data analysis applications for processing Illumina array data.

Thursday, May 3, 2007 9:00-11:30 a.m. EST -- Speaker: Bill McLain, RAC; Keystone Regulatory Services, LLC

Labtronics Inc. is pleased to announce the release of the latest version of LimsLink CDS, the industry leading solution for integration of Chromatography Data Systems with LIMS.

Nucleus Network, an internationally renowned clinical research center located in Melbourne, Australia, has selected LabPas CT to fully automate their Phase I clinical trials.

METTLER TOLEDO offers many different solutions to the snack foods industry, specifically for companies specializing in quality control in salt content, moisture and particle size distribution. The broad laboratory product line consists of titration, moisture analysis, laboratory weighing, pH/Ion meters and other weighing and instrument solutions specific to this industry.

Rescentris, the leading provider of electronic lab notebook (ELN) software for the life sciences industry, today announced that Columbus Children’s Research Institute (CCRI) has selected its award-winning Collaborative Electronic Research FrameworkTM (CERF) solution for their electronic lab notebook.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, announced it has chosen the BMC AppSight Application Problem Resolution System to provide the highest level of support for customers using its Thermo Scientific LIMS and CDS, as well as to optimize the development of those laboratory software solutions.