WALTHAM, Mass. (November 5, 2003) – Thermo Electron Corporation (NYSE:TMO), a leading global supplier of laboratory instruments and services, announced today that it has acquired Laboratory Management Systems, Inc. (LMSi) of New Castle, Delaware

to develop a customized Scierra™ Solutions Laboratory Workflow System to manage the data generated in its Clinical Breast Cancer Project.

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InnaPhase Corporation, the world's largest provider of Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) solutions for the life sciences, today announced that AstraZeneca has purchased the latest, ground breaking in vitro LIMS technology, Galileo LIMS, for in their Alderley Park Research and Development Center based in the United Kingdom.

Sysmed Solutions Ltd, formerly known as wwa.sysmed, has been chosen as the IT solutions provider to support Whitfield Street Laboratory Ltd (WSL) a new company set up to run the UK’s largest, high volume, automated pathology laboratory.

EPA to utilize Amersham Biosciences' new CodeLink custom bioarray service

Applied Biosystems Group (NYSE:ABI - News), an Applera Corporation business, today announced the introduction of two new kits for forensic testing and other human identification purposes that allow analysts to determine the amount of human DNA or male-specific DNA present in samples.

LabVantage Solutions, Inc., a leading provider of Enterprise LIMS and Life Sciences LIMS solutions, and Scientific Software Inc., a world leader in providing software solutions to the scientific community, announced today that they have entered into a broad strategic relationship that will provide customers using Scientific Software’s CyberLAB Knowledge Engineering System™ (KES), and LabVantage’s Sapphire® LIMS, with the industry’s first completely integrated software solution between an enterprise LIMS solution, and a long-term data archival and retrieval solution.

The outlook for LIMS is positive as more enterprises seek to improve the management of lab data and make knowledge available for the purpose of increasing productivity. As the number of test samples continues to rise, even the smallest laboratories that are still using paper notebooks will be compelled to automate their information management systems.

The Intel Raman Bioanalyzer System™ to Help Researchers Understand the Molecular Differences Between Healthy Cells and Diseased Cells for Better Diagnostic Methods

With multi-functionality required, covering 105 applications, and with 12 functional areas of the laboratory and around 500,000 tests conducted per year, Richard Strub, Head of Scientific Support at the Pacific Environmental Science Centre (PESC) describes the migration of 25 years of database programming within 117 days

Accelrys, a wholly owned subsidiary of Pharmacopeia, Inc. (NASDAQ: PCOP), today announced a three-year agreement with Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e) to provide Accelrys' CombiMat data management system for High-Throughput Experimentation (HTE).

Accelrys, a wholly owned subsidiary of Pharmacopeia, Inc. (NASDAQ: PCOP), today announced the release of CombiMat 2.0, the data management solution for high throughput experimentation (HTE) in materials science.

GUELPH, Canada October 14, 2003 -- Labtronics Inc. announces the release of a new interfacing module that connects any laboratory instrument with SAP R/3.

(Friday Harbor, WA) -- White Point Systems, Inc. (WPS, a privately held company) today announces the award of a $2.23M contract from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), Fogarty International Center (FIC) to establish and administrate a Global Data Center (GDC) for the International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups (ICBG) Program.

Thermo Electron Corporation announced today the release of SampleManager IDI 2003, the latest generation of software integrating Thermo’s SampleManager LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) and SAP AG’s R/3 Enterprise, the leading Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system.

Thermo Electron announced today that it has expanded its relationship with IBM to pursue co-operative business opportunities in the global LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) marketplace. Thermo and IBM will work together to create solutions that leverage Thermo’s LIMS expertise with IBM eServer™ system architecture.

Simplified Management of High Throughput Experimentation for Materials Science

New technology allows laboratory equipment buyers to search thousands of items found within the LabX site and on related vendor web sites.

Accelrys Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Pharmacopeia, Inc. (NASDAQ: PCOP), today announced plans to release Insight II(R) and Catalyst(R), Accelrys' premiere modeling and simulation software suites, for the Linux operating system.