“Small is beautiful” is a popular quote. But did you know that being small in business is double jeopardy? Of course, most of us know. Being small in the laboratory business is no different. There is always threat from the large competing labs. The larger labs constantly push their smaller rivals with velocities sufficient enough to drive them out from the realms of profitability and eventually, even beyond the threshold of existence.

Pharsight Corporation, a leading provider of software and strategic services for optimizing clinical drug development, today announced the release of an expanded set of public-source databases (meta-data) to accelerate model-based assessment of a drug's performance against competing therapies.

The following PACS short courses described at http://pacslabs.com have enough registrations to be provided in Orlando, Florida. Classes still have room for you. Classes will repeat in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in June and Los Angeles, California in July.

InforSense Ltd., the leading provider of integrative analytics, today announced the availability of its online Customer Hub at www.chub.inforsense.com. This new, powerful resource enables life scientists and analysts to share best practices, collaborate more easily and work more efficiently by being able to leverage knowledge found in the global scientific community.

The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory Uses Open Text's Livelink ECM

Wallingford Software announces today the release of Version 8.0 of InfoWorks, the leading software solution for modeling, infrastructure planning and operational management in the water, wastewater and river management sectors.

The ability to calibrate known standards for UV/Vis and diode array detectors is the latest feature to be added to Laura, LabLogic's industry-leading chromatography data collection and analysis system.

L.A.B., a new European trade fair and conference devoted to analysis, bio and laboratory equipment, announces the first in a series of conference streams to take place at the new exhibition. ‘The Pharmaceutical Laboratory’ is a day-long programme, taking place on October 2 2007, filled with presentations and seminars which focus on new and topical subjects within the industry.

Labtronics is pleased to announce the release of Nexxis CAL (Instrument Calibration Manager) version 4.0. This release includes numerous enhancements, the most significant of which is the system integration capabilities of Nexxis CAL with other Nexxis COTS (Commercial Off-the-Shelf) solutions, such as Nexxis qELN, Labtronics' Electronic Laboratory Notebook.

The BioAnalytics Group announces its new software for biomedical researchers, BioPathwise DM(tm) at the Tucson Symposium, organized by Ventana Medical Systems, March 6 and 7.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., continues to strengthen the core functionality of its purpose-built laboratory information management system (LIMS) for pharmaceutical manufacturing R&D and QA/QC applications.

Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., today announced that Cell Genesys, Inc., a California-based company dedicated to developing and commercializing novel biological therapies for patients with cancer, has selected Thermo Scientific Darwin LIMS™ v 2.0 to manage its laboratory data.

National Instruments Electronics Workbench Group today announced the release of Multisim 10.0 and Ultiboard 10.0, the latest versions of its interactive SPICE simulation and circuit analysis software

Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) and the Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB) are proud to announce the extension of a collaboration in which ACD/Labs will continue to provide molecular nomenclature software support to wwPDB for use in its data processing and annotation operations. Their mutually beneficial relationship has recently celebrated its five year anniversary.

The San Diego-based award-winning knowledge management firm, EKM Corporation, will exhibit at the 14 th CALBIO Conference in San Diego, CA. Live demonstrations of EKM Corp.’s revolutionary Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN), will be hosted at table # 68. EKM Corp. joins over 600 sponsors, exhibitors and attendees at the San Diego Marriott Hotel & Marina March 06, 2007

PACS short courses described at http://pacslabs.com have enough registrations to be provided in Orlando, Florida. Classes still have room for you. Classes will repeat in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in June and Los Angeles, California in July.

Interactive Software Delivers Out-of-the-Box Solution for Data Logging, Benchtop Measurements and Academic Instruction

More than 1100 biotechnology executives from around the world were treated to a positive outlook from industry leaders as the first annual BIO-Europe Spring conference opened today in Milan, Italy. BIO-Europe Spring is the first ever global biotechnology conference held in Italy.

Rosetta Biosoftware today introduced the Rosetta Resolver® gene expression data analysis system 7.0, with capabilities to promote standardized data storage and exchange.

etrials(R) Worldwide, Inc., a leading provider of eClinical software and services that optimize clinical-trial management and accelerate time-to-market, today announced an agreement with a top ten global pharmaceutical company to develop and deploy its eDiary solutions for an upcoming clinical trial.