GE Healthcare, a unit of General Electric Company, introduced today the ÄKTAprocess low pressure liquid chromatography system for accurate, and reproducible purification in downstream processing.

Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc., (ACD/Labs) is pleased to announce that it has established a collaboration with Klee, one of the leading vendors in Electronic Laboratory Notebooks. The intention is to deliver an integrated product, delivering access to the industry standard nomenclature and physicochemical prediction algorithms via the Kalabie electronic notebook, with the intention of delivering more efficient and repeatable discovery processes.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has been selected as one of six universities nationwide to be awarded a two-year, nearly $1 million planning grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that will provide a foundation for the development of a center for cheminformatics research.

ChemSW, Inc. announced the release of their latest in-depth white paper, this one detailing best practices in chemical inventory management. Another 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.

LifeTree eClinical(TM), a member of the FFF Enterprises Inc. family of companies and a leading provider of clinical electronic data capture and analysis systems, today announced that the company has entered into a partnership with Vigiun Clinical and Epidemiological Research, a full-service contract research organization (CRO) based in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Vigiun will collaborate with LifeTree through its ClinPartners(TM) program to provide a suite of clinical services interfaced with the LifeTree eClinical applications.

256-Processor SGI Altix Supercomputer and World's Largest Silicon Graphics Prism Visualization System Among New Resources Serving Nation's Leading Biomedical Researchers

Bio-Imaging Technologies, Inc. ("Bio-Imaging") today announced that it has established a collaborative working agreement with the Society of Nuclear Medicine (SNM), headquartered in Reston, VA. Bio-Imaging and SNM have agreed to work together in establishing multicenter clinical trial capabilities and educational programs.

Infocom CO and Ariadne Genomics, Inc. today announced a collaboration to establish worldwide distribution of Auto Net Finder® - Infocom’s new gene network analysis software. Ariadne Genomics will integrate Auto Net Finder with its PathwayStudio® Central client-server pathway analysis software. Integration of Auto Net Finder with PathwayStudio Central adds new means to the analysis of microarray and proteomics data.

Ingenuity Pathways Analysis 3.0 to be deployed broadly to all researchers at Wyeth

Media Cybernetics announces the release of IQbase 2.0, the enterprise image asset management software. Along with database enhancements, this IQbase upgrade features new display, measurement, and collaboration tools that enable organizations to store, query, and share scientific or industrial images and data.

DataCeutics, Inc. announced that AstraZeneca has acquired a Global License for the CR Toolkit(TM), DataCeutics' SAS(R) based clinical reporting software that produces reports for regulatory submissions.

Genizon to Integrate the Ingenuity Solution into its Target Express Platform

Vancouver Island Health Authority - Department of Laboratory Medicine

State of Louisiana

St. Petersburg, Florida

New Jersey Department of Agriculture

University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center

This November IBLA (International Biotech & Lab Automation Europe) will, as always, be a hotbed for novel ideas, fresh approaches and new product launches. Many of the 120+ exhibiting companies are to use this major UK life science event as the platform to introduce a multiplicity of new products.

Debra 5.6, the latest release of LabLogic's LIMS for Drug Metabolism, has freed radio-chromatographers creating pooled samples from the drudgery and potential errors of manual data transfer.

The price of LIMS systems ranges all over the map. With so many LIMS products on the market serving such a wide range of applications, what is a consumer to do? How do you measure value?