4D, Inc., the award-winning maker of an integrated platform that simplifies the process of developing and deploying business applications, announced today the signing of a long-term agreement with Orchard Software Corporation, makers of the Orchard Harvest line of award-winning laboratory information systems.

National Instruments today announced the availability of NI LabVIEW for The Infinity Project, a version of the LabVIEW graphical programming environment designed for learning and exploring exciting engineering topics in high school and early college science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) classes.

Siemens Energy & Automation, Inc. today announced the release of Version 7 of their field proven SIMATIC® PCS 7 Process Automation System that gives plant operators new ways to minimize total cost of ownership, protect automation assets, increase plant availability, minimize downtime, optimize process performance, and modernize existing installed systems.

System to facilitate Company's initiative to improve EH&S performance with increased efficiency

Join PerkinElmer for the first webcast in their 2007 FREE e-learning webcast series: LABWORKS LIMS 6.0: Power and Configurability to Meet the Challenges of Today's Lab

Technological changes and growth of competition in the healthcare industry are remodeling the business strategies of leading pharmaceutical and biotech companies. BenAstrum has brought together an elite assembly of senior pharmaceutical consultants to deliver the fundamental knowledge that companies require to meet those objectives. BenAstrum will host over 100 webinars on various topics in 2007, delivering the most essential knowledge your company requires to expand in today's competitive industry.

National Procurement, a division of NHS National Services Scotland and the Scottish Microbiology Forum have awarded bioMérieux with a major contract to supply each of the 27 NHS (National Health Service) clinical microbiology laboratories in the country with a VITEK 2 system for standardising antibiotic susceptibility testing (AST) and bacterial identification.

Nexaweb Technologies, Inc., provider of the leading standards-based platform for building and deploying Enterprise Web 2.0 applications, today announced that AmeriPath, the leading national provider of physician-based anatomic pathology, dermatopathology and molecular diagnostic services, has successfully implemented the first release of its new Enterprise Laboratory Information system based on Nexaweb's Enterprise Web 2.0 Platform.

Center's $300,000 Investment in Forensic Science and Microbiology Analysis Equipment Doesn't Miss a Beat During 36-Minute Power Outage, Completes All Tests Runs Containing Rare DNA Samples

Automated Testing Streamlines Validation of Pharsight's WinNonlin Product

Between April 16th and April 23rd ClinPhone, the leading clinical technology organization (CTO) will host a series of webinars. These complimentary in-depth presentations explore a number of issues surrounding Electronic Data Capture (EDC), Trial Supply Management and Randomization.

Following the success of their unique WinLIMS Rental scheme, QSI (Quality Systems International) have decided to make more Quality Assurance software products available by rental.

Ariadne today announced receiving a $100,000 SBIR Phase I grant from the NIH, National Center for Research Resources towards the further development of MedScan technology. MedScan employs natural language processing (NLP) to extract biomedical information from scientific text into databases amenable for computational analysis. The grant will be used to expand the scope of MedScan beyond its traditional focus on pathway analysis.

Henry Nowicki, Ph.D. laboratory director and Wayne Schuliger, P.E. technical director at PACS: Testing, Consulting, and Training will provide workshops and short courses in Orlando FL at the Water Quality Association and Aquatech Conference March 27-31, 2007.

ARX Inc., a leading global provider of standards-based electronic signatures (digital signatures) and information assurance solutions, has implemented a CoSign® electronic signature solution throughout the North American-based laboratories of Maxxam Analytics Inc.

Tripos, Inc. (Nasdaq:TRPS), announced that its proposals to sell the assets of its Discovery Informatics business to Vector Capital and to adopt a plan of dissolution and liquidation of the company following completion of that sale were each approved today by the required stockholder vote.

Invitrogen Corporation (NASDAQ:IVGN), a provider of essential life science technologies for disease research and drug discovery, and ScienceXperts, Inc., a provider of software tools for bioscience studies, today announced the launch of CytoGenie™, a knowledge-based software tool that simplifies the design of flow cytometry experiments, including multicolor protocols whose complexity amplifies dramatically as more parameters are detected.

New hardware and software from LabLogic Systems make it possible for chemists working in drug metabolism to achieve detection results up to ten times better than conventional LC flow-through methods.

New Software and Magnetic Microspheres Advance Company's xMAP(R) Multiplexing Technology

Symbion Systems, Inc., a leader in providing analytical instrument control, analysis, and connectivity software, today announced a partnership with Labtronics, Inc., an industry leader in laboratory data integration and management solutions.