Frost & Sullivan honored industry leaders for outstanding performance in healthcare markets at last week's Excellence in Pharmaceuticals & Life Sciences Awards Banquet held in Naples, Florida.

Combined Offering of Customer-Proven Imaging and Workflow Technology Extended Until 2015

Insight Sciences, LLC, a biomedical imaging technology company announced today it has been selected by CIRS, Inc. to develop customized hardware platforms for use in biomodeling and other bioimaging environments.

ISO/IEC 17025 Laboratory Accreditation is the criteria for laboratories to demonstrate the technical competence to carry out specific test methods; generate valid calibration data, test results, and operate an effective quality system. The requisite documentation linked to each of the lab processes is easily generated during the implementation of an ISO 17025 'ready' Lims platform like STARLIMS. STARLIMS integrated work flow manager produces compliant electronic records at each of the laboratory workflow steps and automatically links related information to produce a traceability matrix surrounding results.

Answerthink, Inc. announced today EzPharma, a custom mySAP™ All-in-One solution designed to offer pharmaceutical companies and others in the life sciences industries a powerful, low-cost, and easy-to-implement solution that can help improve time to market, enhance quality control, and streamline compliance efforts.

ESP (Environmental Software Providers) has announced that its opsEnvironmental software has been selected by the Royal Dutch / Shell Group for implementation throughout their worldwide Exploration and Production division.

Scientific Software, Inc. (SSI), a world leader in providing software solutions to the scientific community, announced that its EZChrom Elite version 3.1.6 Chromatography Data System is now released. This new release incorporates a number of feature requests from its EZChrom customer base of more than 60,000 systems.

Locus Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a privately held pharmaceutical company focused on developing novel, small molecule therapeutics, announced today the initiation of a multi-stage research collaboration with Dow AgroSciences LLC, a subsidiary of The Dow Chemical Company, focused on agrochemicals and biotechnology innovation.

Symyx Technologies, Inc. announced that, on November 12, 2004, it signed a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held IntelliChem, Inc., based in Bend, Oregon. IntelliChem is a provider of intelligent electronic lab notebooks (iELN) for customers in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and chemical industries.

Tripos, Inc., a leading provider of drug discovery informatics products and chemistry research, has announced a multimillion-dollar, multiyear extension of its global software license agreement with Pfizer Inc.

The votes of more than 3,000 scientists from around the world are in and the finalists of the 2004 Life Science Industry Awards have been determined.

Autoscribe, a world-leading provider of enterprise Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) solutions, today claimed a World 1st for the number of concurrent customer LIMS system demonstrations held at the Matrix LIMS User Meeting on 2nd November 2004 @WilliamsF1 Conference Centre.

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PerkinElmer will be introducing two new systems at EAS next week in New Jersey - the TotalChrom Chromatography Data System and Spotlight spectroscopy system.

Lablogic announces the release of Debra 5.5.7, which contains a number of enhancements since Debra 5.5.4 that add to the functionality and usability of Debra.

Spectral Genomics, Inc.(R) announced today the introduction of its web-enabled SpectralWare(TM), a software suite for the analysis and reporting of data from array Comparative Genomic Hybridization (CGH). The webware concept allows every user of SpectralWare to have the latest version of software as soon as it is available.

EISC, a scientific software development company, now offers a limited trial version of its Analytical Review & Reporting Software Suite (R&R Suite) for Metals, Volatiles, Semi-Volatiles/HPLC, or Pesticide/PCB’s. EISC’s R&R Suite is middleware that focuses on increasing lab production while ensuring data quality and integrity by automating the analytical review, reporting and electronic data deliverables (including SEDD) with no change to the lab’s current analytical process.