Indiana University Selects Scientific Software’s CyberLAB

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Contact: Scientific Software, Inc.
Heather Werness
Tel: 925.416.9000 x234

For Immediate Release


Indiana University Selects Scientific Software’s CyberLAB 
Knowledge Engineering System for its School of Informatics

Pleasanton, California (August 27, 2003) ¾ Scientific Software, Inc, a world leader in providing software solutions to the scientific community, announced today that Indiana University (Indianapolis, Indiana), one of the country’s academic leaders in information technology, has selected Scientific Software’s CyberLAB Knowledge Engineering System™ for its School of Laboratory Informatics. The new school is the first in the United States devoted exclusively to the emerging field of informatics in science.

The school initiated a new Laboratory Informatics Graduate Program, which will admit its inaugural class in the autumn of 2003. This program, the first of its kind in the country, will be taught in a new, state-of-the-art research facility on the Indianapolis campus. The curriculum, culminating in an M.S. degree, will offer general courses in informatics, and specialized courses in laboratory informatics, covering, for example, data acquisition, instrument interfacing, laboratory robotics, chromatography data systems, laboratory information management systems, electronic laboratory notebooks, regulatory compliance, quality control, and scientific knowledge management. 

CyberLAB Knowledge Engineering System is the industry’s only secure, web-based system designed to capture and warehouse all the electronic records across the enterprise in one scalable architecture. Users can create laboratory reports and search, retrieve, data mine, and archive any type of an electronic record such as instrumentation raw data, reports, spreadsheets, documents, presentations and image files.  CyberLAB assists organizations to become compliant with FDA regulations when required. Built using standard web technology, CyberLAB is expandable from single user system to global multi-site implementations enabling global research collaboration and data sharing.

“Academically, the Laboratory Informatics Graduate Program will be covering entirely new ground.” said Douglas Perry, Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Research in the IU School of Informatics. “This program will spawn a new professional breed—‘hybrid’ would be an appropriate term—that has solid scientific foundations combined with advanced IT skills specialized for the 21st  century laboratory. To prepare our graduates for advanced placement in industry, we had to be certain that our new curriculum incorporated the leading technologies that are well known and well respected in the field. With this in mind, we chose CyberLAB as the key component for graduate training in data integration and management.”

“We are very excited by our selection to participate in this new program,” said Michael Elliott, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Scientific Software, Inc.  “This first of its kind program is needed to bridge the scientific and information technology disciplines to further life sciences research. 

The graduate program is designed for professional, working students with undergraduate degrees in the physical or life sciences, who seek advanced  training in laboratory informatics to pursue careers in the agricultural, biomedical, chemical, food, petroleum, and pharmaceutical industries. Graduates will work primarily in commercial and municipal laboratories as operations specialists, LIMS analysts, and lab managers. A significant job market also exists with laboratory software and instrumentation companies in sales, service, and training positions.

About Indiana University School of Informatics
Informatics is the study and application of information technology to the arts, sciences, and professions, as well as the use of IT in organizations and society at large.  In 1999, Indiana University established the School of Informatics—the first new school in thirty years—to respond to the increasing need for IT professionals in all fields.  The School of Informatics capitalizes on Indiana University’s nationally recognized strengths in information technology. Indiana University is the operations center for cutting-edge national and international research and education networks such as Internet 2 and the Abilene Network. IU faculty and staff have access to an outstanding modern IT environment, sophisticated resources for advanced visualization, and one of the world’s most powerful supercomputers. The School of Informatics is located on both the Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses. The Laboratory Informatics Graduate Program is offered on the Indianapolis campus, in proximity to major centers of biomedical research and the pharmaceutical industry. For further information on the School of Informatics, go to www.informatics.iupui.edu 

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About Scientific Software, Inc.
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Scientific Software, Inc. is a world leader in the development, sale and support of software systems to the scientific community.  With over 55,000 worldwide installations, the Company’s award-winning EZChrom Elite Chromatography Data System is used in a wide range of markets such as pharmaceutical, environmental, chemical, and food analysis.  The Company’s CyberLAB Knowledge Engineering System™ is used by leading pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies providing an enterprise-wide solution for information collaboration, data management, regulatory compliance and knowledge engineering.  Scientific Software, Inc. is based in Pleasanton, California.

Further information about Scientific Software, Inc. and its products is available at www.scisw.com or at 1-800-588-8878.

EZChrom Elite and CyberLAB Knowledge Engineering System are trademarks of Scientific Software, Inc.