What LABVANTAGE is Doing with Data Integration

At this year’s CTEC conference, I have the great pleasure of leading a training class called, “Laboratory Data Integration and Migration: Best Practices and Application”. (If you haven’t signed up for CTEC 2011 yet, there’s still time!) In order to be prepared for this class, I have spent most of this week writing the training materials. So I thought this would be a good time for me to write down my thoughts on the data integration and migration landscape here at LABVANTAGE, both in the present and coming in the near future.

Six Sigma and Your LIMS System

Six Sigma is a well established process improvement technique. The goal is to drive down defects in manufactured products, and thus to enhance customer satisfaction and contribute to the financial results of the business. Key to Six Sigma is that it provides a quantitative approach to the improvements; to support this approach a variety of mainly statistical tools are used.

IDBS Launches Biomolecular Hub to Streamline Molecular Analysis and Improve Genomic Collaboration

IDBS, a global provider of innovative data management, analytics and modeling solutions, today announced the availability of The Biomolecular Hub, a comprehensive data management solution for Omics data and analysis results.

Sparta Systems Unveils On-Demand Training for TrackWise® Software

Sparta Systems, Inc., the maker of TrackWise® quality management software and the market leader in enterprise quality and compliance management solutions, today announced the availability of On-demand TrackWise Training, a new solution designed to provide a cost-effective, convenient way for companies to train large groups of users and intermittent users on the basics of TrackWise Enterprise Quality Management Software (EQMS).

LiMS forum, the professional network for LIMS, Laboratory, Scientific & Health Informatics

LiMS forum is the largest & most active User's Group for Laboratory, Scientific & Health Informatics professionals to meet, post articles, jobs, videos, downloads & SaaS Applications for LIMS, ELN, CDS, SDMS, LIS, EMR, Robotics, Chromatography, Spectroscopy, BioInformatics, Life Sciences & more...

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Request for Proposal – Laboratory Information Management System

Web based system to manage Diagnostic Laboratory Information: Texas Animal Health Commission

LabLogic strengthens distributor network

Radiochromatography and nuclear medicine professionals in Spain, the Czech Republic and Singapore now have local access to software and instrumentation from LabLogic Systems following the appointment of new distributors.

Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 9, Issue 22

June 08, 2011      Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update  Volume 9, Issue 22   In This Issue  Bid / RFP / RFI Opportunities 06/08/2011 - Request for Proposal - Laboratory Information Management System Web based system to manage Diagnostic Laboratory Information: Texas Animal Health Commission 05/30/2011 - Forensic Laboratory Information Management System Forensic Science South Australia (FSSA) is seeking Requests for Proposals for the provision, implementation and ongoing support of a Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) Forensic Laboratory Information Management System as detailed in the Request for Proposal documents. 05/17/2011 - Call for Tenders - City of Montreal - Supply and configuration of…

Thermo Fisher Scientific – UK Summer Symposium Seminar, June 7th 2011 9am-5pm EST.

The Symposium will include presentations from scientists both from within the company and key users from representative organisations who are utilising Thermo Scientific products and equipment to further their daily research. In addition, Thermo Scientific representatives will be available throughout the day to discuss any technical questions. A parallel exhibition will showcase the latest updates in Thermo Scientific products from across the company including scientific instrumentation, laboratory products, microbiology and cellomics as well as related products from selected third party suppliers to enhance your research and analyses.

Complimentary Webinar: Making complex data understandable and accessible at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia to enable Translational Research

This webinar will discuss Children's Hospital of Philadelphia’s (CHOP) recent deployment of an enterprise-class Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) and how they partnered with Thermo Fisher Scientific to develop new functionality to advance clinical and translational research. It will also describe CHOP’s opt-in approach to user adoption and best practices for implementation of informatics solutions in this environment.

Thermo Fisher Scientific Recognized by Computerworld as a 2011 Honors Laureate for Visionary Application of Information Technology

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today announced that IDG’s Computerworld Honors Program has selected it as a 2011 Laureate. The annual award program honors organizations that create and use information technology to promote and advance public welfare, contribute to the greater good of society and change the world for the better.

Release of Gel-Pro Analyzer Version 6.3, Gel Analysis Software, Includes Support for Windows® Vista and Windows® 7

Media Cybernetics announces the release of Gel-Pro Analyzer Version 6.3 image analysis software. Designed for molecular biologists, this software extracts valuable qualitative and quantitative information from electrophoretic gels, blots and colonies.

PerkinElmer Launches AxION™ Mass Spectrometry Platform

Global leader in analysis solutions launches fast, accurate high throughput platform for mass determination and quantification for the environmental, pharmaceutical and food industries

Freeslate, Inc. Releases Automation Studio 8.3 Software for Increased Performance and Control of Core Module 3 Platform

Freeslate, Inc., the leading provider of high throughput research solutions that enable dramatic gains in R&D productivity and innovation, today announced the release of Automation Studio 8.3 software, a key component of its powerful Lab Execution and Analysis (LEA) software suite.

Rental option for LIMS offers ‘try before you buy’ business benefits

London-based LIMS developer, Two Fold Software Limited, is looking to protect prospective customers from wasting time and valuable capital installing the wrong LIMS solution for their requirements with a rental payment option for its Qualoupe LIMS solution.

New Version 4.6 Out-of-Box Solution for Managing Lab Information from Micronic

Micronic has announced a new version 4.6 of its popular Track-IT™ information management system. Track-IT is a unique out-of-the-box LIMS/LIS solution made for scientists enabling you to reorganize and track your tubes and samples in just minutes.

OpenClinica emerges as fastest-growing open source software choice for clinical trials

OpenClinica is the fastest growing open source software choice for clinical trials, according to data released by the company. Started in 2005 by Harvard alums Cal Collins and Ben Baumann, OpenClinica is already the world’s most popular open source software for web-based electronic data capture (EDC) and clinical data management (CDM).

Tripos Announces Agios Pharmaceuticals’ Choice of D360 Software

Tripos(R), a leading provider of drug discovery informatics products and services, today announced that Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has selected D360 as its enterprise solution for data integration, visualization, mining and analysis, after a year-long, multi-vendor competitive process.
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