Professional Analytical and Consulting Services (PACS) – Orlando, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh PACS Short Courses and Activated Carbon Conference

PACS short courses Orlando FL in February and March, Los Angeles CA in April, and Pittsburgh PA in May. Continuing education is important to your career and firm's success. PACS provides public and on-site courses, consulting, R&D, routine and advanced laboratory testing services and the International Activated Carbon Conference in Los Angeles CA on April 27-28 and the Activated Carbon School on April 24 thru May 1.

New Symyx Isentris Products Deliver Greater Decision Support Value

Symyx Technologies, Inc. has announced two new product offerings, Isentris Forms and Isentris Data Miner. Symyx Isentris was initially introduced to provide customers of its market-leading ISIS cheminformatics software a migration path to improved R&D decision support flexibility and productivity

CLC bio releases version 2.0 of award-winning enterprise platform

Recently, CLC bio released their enterprise platform for Next Generation Sequencing data analysis, CLC Genomics Server, in version 2.0. It has been expanded with a wide range of new and improved features assisting organizations of any size in building and managing a modern, flexible, and efficient enterprise platform for analyzing and handling high-throughput sequencing data.

Creative Use of Chemistry Software Could Win Prizes for Educators

Chemistry and related departments can win up to $5000 in ACD/Labs chemistry software for their school or research project.

Rescentris Announces SaaS (Software as a Service) Offering of CERF Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN)

Rescentris announced its leading ELN product is available as Software as a Service (SaaS). Cloud-based eCERF™ delivers the full-featured functionality of awardwinning CERF, combining compliant electronic recordkeeping with data and document management to improve laboratory efficiency and access to scientific information.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Showcases Comprehensive Solutions for Biobanks at the Biobanking 2010

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, will highlight its comprehensive portfolio of offerings for biobanks and biorepositories during the Biobanking 2010 conference. The company will exhibit across two booths in the sponsored booth area within the Earls Court Conference Centre in London, UK, February 4 - 5, 2010.

Elevating the Role of Laboratory Informatics to Assist Mission Critical Decision Making in the Enterprise

By Kim Shah, VP Marketing & Business Development, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Informatics

One of the key challenges faced by life science organizations today is the inability to turn the vast amount of laboratory data generated into useful information that enables management at all levels of the organization to make timely and informed decisions. Many companies still use manual processes for collecting, analyzing, and reporting data; they also use both structured and unstructured content. A worldwide market research study on laboratory information management system (LIMS) users conducted by Strategic Directions International (Los Angeles, Calif.) determined that over 70% of laboratories have less than half of their instruments interfaced with a LIMS.

Elevating the Role of Laboratory Informatics to Assist Mission Critical Decision Making in the Enterprise

By Kim Shah, VP Marketing & Business Development, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Informatics

One of the key challenges faced by life science organizations today is the inability to turn the vast amount of laboratory data generated into useful information that enables management at all levels of the organization to make timely and informed decisions. Many companies still use manual processes for collecting, analyzing, and reporting data; they also use both structured and unstructured content. A worldwide market research study on laboratory information management system (LIMS) users conducted by Strategic Directions International (Los Angeles, Calif.) determined that over 70% of laboratories have less than half of their instruments interfaced with a LIMS.

Elevating the Role of Laboratory Informatics to Assist Mission Critical Decision Making in the Enterprise

By Kim Shah, VP Marketing & Business Development, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Informatics

One of the key challenges faced by life science organizations today is the inability to turn the vast amount of laboratory data generated into useful information that enables management at all levels of the organization to make timely and informed decisions. Many companies still use manual processes for collecting, analyzing, and reporting data; they also use both structured and unstructured content. A worldwide market research study on laboratory information management system (LIMS) users conducted by Strategic Directions International (Los Angeles, Calif.) determined that over 70% of laboratories have less than half of their instruments interfaced with a LIMS.

Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 8, Issue 2

January 12, 2010      Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update  Volume 8, Issue 2   In This Issue  Bid / RFP / RFI Opportunities 12/14/2009 - Request for Proposals - Laboratory Information Management System RFP No. PSD 10-NED-17: LABORATORY INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM for the State of Hawaii, Department of Public Safety, Narcotics Enforcement Division  LIMS Blog Postings The development of a thriving Digital Business Ecosystem (DBE) for Laboratory, Scientific & Health Industry Stakeholders The Digital Business Ecosystem (DBE) is the natural evolution of Business on the Internet and the convergence of software applications (such as LIMS, ELN, LIS, ERP, EMR, EHR, ECM and many…

Institute for Medical Immunology Adopts Agilent Technologies’ Electronic Lab Notebook

Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced that the Institute for Medical Immunology (IMI), part of Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), has chosen the Agilent ELN electronic lab notebook to manage its scientific data.

New York Downtown Hospital Advances Use of Technology with Eclipsys’ Clinical Solutions

Eclipsys Corporation® (NASDAQ: ECLP), The Outcomes Company®, today announced that New York Downtown Hospital (New York Downtown) will launch a major information technology (IT) initiative involving multiple integrated components of the company’s Sunrise Enterprise™ suite of solutions.

Orion Environmental Inc. Selects Locus’ Environmental Software

Locus Technologies (Locus), the industry leader in web-based environmental compliance and information management software, today announced that Orion Environmental Inc. has selected Locus' Environmental Information Management (EIM) system to streamline environmental data management at its clients' environmental remediation sites.

EXPANSION FOR AUTOSCRIBE – AND THEIR MATRIX GEMINI LIMS BUSINESS

Despite the difficult economic climate around the world Autoscribe is pleased to announce a small growth in business for the first 6 months of their current financial year. This is coupled with a growth in profits of 20%.

European ScreeningPort Uses ActivityBase XE to Deliver Industry Standard Screening Services

IDBS, the leading worldwide provider of research data management and analytics solutions to R&D organizations, today announced that European ScreeningPort GmbH has selected ActivityBase XE to manage the growing demand for use of their screening services by academic partners. As the industry standard for all pharmaceutical screening data, ActivityBase XE provides the essential quality and management capabilities required to deliver commercial quality screening results.

Thermo Fisher Scientific to Unveil Major New LIMS at PITTCON 2010

Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc., the world leader in serving science, will unveil a new LIMS solution within booth #2757 at PITTCON 2010, being held from February 28-March 5 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla

Latest Symyx Notebook Powers Analytical Laboratories

Symyx Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMMX) today announced the release of Symyx Notebook 6.4., offering scientists improved support for method development, validation and execution in regulated and non-regulated analytical labs. This latest release of Symyx's electronic lab notebook (ELN) offers new cross-experiment referencing and reporting capabilities that improve collaborative workflows for multidisciplinary teams working in the life sciences, chemicals, energy and consumer products industries.

Ocimum Biosolutions Announces Launch of ‘Pioneers in Genomics Education’ Program

Ocimum Biosolutions, a leading integrated genomics company, today announced the launch of its ‘Pioneers in Genomics Education – Class of 2010’ program. The intention of this program is to cement a strong industry-academia-industry relationship and provide cutting-edge genomic tools and technologies to the budding world-class researchers of tomorrow from key institutions. The program also aims to build a model for cross-academic and cross-industry exchange of knowledge and ideas. This program would be launched for India first.

VelQuest ® and Aegis Analytical Partner for Discoverant™ Integration to SmartLab™ Lab Execution System: Provides Plant-to-QC Lab Data Integration for Operational Excellence in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Operational Excellence program at Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company enhanced by Aegis and VelQuest technology partnership, which merges manufacturing plant and quality control lab data to enable correlation of critical process parameters (CPP's) and critical quality attributes (CQA's).

Pharsight and FDA Collaboration Continues: Pharsight and FDA Collaboration Continues:

Pharsight, a market-leading provider of software and scientific services to improve productivity and decision-making in clinical drug development, today announced that it has released two new data analysis tools; Phoenix NLME and Phoenix Connect. The tools were developed via a collaborative effort between FDA and Pharsight under Pharsight’s previously-announced Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER).
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