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Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 3, Issue 11

March 15, 2005Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update  Volume 3, Issue 11   In This Issue  Announcements - Call for Papers, Articles & Case Studies    Articles 03/08/2005 - Fantasy LIMS, you know... for the kids, not for your lab    Recent News 03/14/2005 - NI SoftMotion Development Module for LabVIEW Wins Control Engineering Engineers' Choice Award 03/14/2005 - Agilent Technologies' Automated Lab-on-a-Chip platform receives international design award 03/10/2005 - PITTCON a Huge Success for Labtronics 03/10/2005 - Image Systems Takes CFS Calibration Software to the Next Level 03/10/2005 - Chembio Submits Veterinary Tuberculosis Test To USDA; Initial Product Targeting Pharmaceutical Research…

Tripos Awarded NIH Grant to Develop Screening and Optimization Technology for Drug Discovery

Tripos, Inc., a leading provider of drug discovery chemistry and informatics products and services, today announced that it has been awarded an $860,000 phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). Tripos will use this two-year grant to create a full-scale library design system for use directly by medicinal chemists at its research facility, Tripos Discovery Research Centre.

Biotrue Announces Collaborative Data Management System for Biomedical Researchers Now Available on Apple Mac OS X Server

Biotrue today announced the commercial availability of its Collaborative Data Management System (CDMS) for Apple’s Mac OS X Server. The CDMS is an effective, easy-to-use solution to the data management challenges presented by leading-edge life sciences research.

NI SoftMotion Development Module for LabVIEW Wins Control Engineering Engineers’ Choice Award

National Instruments NI SoftMotion Technology Receives Top Honors from Control Engineering Readers

AACC and The Endocrine Society Partner to Promote Patient Education

Partnership Focuses on Helping Patients Understand Their Medical Lab Tests

Agilent Technologies’ Automated Lab-on-a-Chip platform receives international design award

Agilent Technologies Inc.today announced that its 5100 Automated Lab-on-a-Chip Platform has been awarded a 2005 iF Gold Award, a prestigious international award for industrial product design.

PITTCON a Huge Success for Labtronics

Labtronics unveils latest Lab solutions: NEXXIS qELN and LIMSLINKCDS

EDN Names National Instruments CompactRIO an Innovation of the Year Winner

Magazine Recognizes NI CompactRIO as a Leading Technology in Embedded Systems Category

Image Systems Takes CFS Calibration Software to the Next Level

New Software Release Provides Increased Image Quality to Help View and Diagnose Medical Images

Chembio Submits Veterinary Tuberculosis Test To USDA; Initial Product Targeting Pharmaceutical Research Operations

Chembio Diagnostics, Inc. today announced that it submitted the Company's first application to the U.S. Department of Agriculture ("USDA") for PrimaTB Stat Pak, a rapid test to detect tuberculosis (TB) in non-human primates (NHPs).

Gene Logic Releases Improved Software for Discovering Drug Targets and Assessing Safety of Compounds

Genesis Enterprise System 2.5 Responds to Customer Needs, Offers Expanded Capabilities

Applied Biosystems and the U.S. Food And Drug Administration Collaborate to Investigate Diabetes Drug Toxicity

Collaborators will use Applied Biosystems Expression Array System and Rat Whole Genome Survey Microarray

ESS’ Latest Essential Suite TM Release Streamlines EH&S Reporting

Enhanced Essential Chemical Inventory TM and Essential Compliance Manager TM modules improve workflow and regulatory information exchange

Public Library of Science Launches New Open-Access Journal for the Pathogen Research Community; PLoS Pathogens Accepting Submissions

The Public Library of Science (PLoS) announces the launch of PLoS Pathogens, an international open-access, peer-reviewed journal. The journal is accepting submissions and commences publication in September 2005. PLoS Pathogens aims to address research on pathogens including bacteria, fungi, parasites, prions, and viruses.

US Air Force Petroleum Office Centralizes Control with STARLIMS

STARLIMS has been selected by the US Air Force Petroleum Office to employ its extensive knowledge of LIMS in the petroleum industry and fulfill the US Air Force's vision of providing worldwide laboratory information management support.

New Version of Misys Laboratory Enhances Day-to-Day Workflow Efficiencies and Patient Safety

Confronting ever-present challenges managing the medical laboratory technologist shortage, hospitals are increasingly turning to technology to automate their lab operations. The latest version of Misys LaboratoryÔ from Misys Healthcare Systems, was demonstrated this week at the Clinical Laboratory Management Association (CLMA) Conference in Chicago.

Agilent Technologies first to integrate Microsoft Visual Basic for applications with logic analyzer for data analysis, visualization

Advanced customization environment enhances validation and debug capabilities, speeds design and development of digital products

Agilent Technologies introduces secure Web portal for designing custom microarrays for genomic research

Online tool provides increased flexibility, speed and control of microarray design

Sysmex America Launches New Slide Preparation Unit

Sysmex America, Inc., a world leader in laboratory design, systemization and solutions, unveiled the automated SP-1000i Slide Preparation Unit at the Clinical Laboratory Management Association (CLMA) annual conference in Chicago. The SP-1000i boasts features such as a manual mode reducing sample size, seven staining variations, eight levels of smear thickness and barcode printing onto glass slides. The SP-1000i replaces the SP-100.