LimsLinkCDS Interfaces Varian’s Galaxie Chromatography Data System with any LIMS
GUELPH, Canada and PALO ALTO CA, April 14, 2004 – Labtronics Inc. and Varian, Inc. (NASDAQ: VARI) announced a new LimsLinkCDS interface for the Varian Galaxie(TM) Chromatography Data System, which provides Galaxie users with a direct and transparent connection with any LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System). With the new interface, users can easily transfer information between the Galaxie Chromatography Data System (CDS) and the LIMS system used by their organization.
LimsLinkCDS adds new menu items to the Galaxie data system that allow the user to access the LIMS without having to leave the chromatography data system (CDS) and authorized CDS users have access to the menu items without having to logon separately to use the LIMS interface.
Configuration of the LimsLinkCDS – Galaxie interface is quick and easy using drop-down menus and check-boxes that use Galaxie terminology. LimsLinkCDS uses methods to store configurations allowing each analyst or group of analysts to use different pre-configured methods.
LIMS worklists can be selected from directly within Galaxie. The analyst can view and edit the worklist to ensure it is complete and accurate before it is automatically expanded to include standards, check samples and replicates. LimsLinkCDS includes macros that can be used to automatically create a sequence name, RunName (prefix) and Run ID (suffix). The completed sequence is automatically stored in the directory specified by the Galaxie Project that the analyst has selected.
Varian, Inc.’s Galaxie Chromatography Data System is an intuitive, easy-to use-software platform that controls GC and LC instruments from a variety of vendors. Galaxie’s unique architecture readily expands from a single workstation to an enterprise-wide network controlling hundreds of instruments.
About Varian, Inc.
Varian, Inc. (Nasdaq: VARI) is a major supplier of scientific instruments, vacuum technologies, and specialized contract electronics manufacturing services. These businesses serve a broad range of life science and industrial customers worldwide. The company manufactures in 14 locations in North America, Europe, and the Pacific Rim and employs some 4,300 people. Varian, Inc. had fiscal year 2003 sales of $848 million. Additional information about Varian is available at www.varianinc.com .
Laurie Alire
Vice President of Corporate Communications and Investor Relations
Varian, Inc.
3120 Hansen Way
Palo Alto, CA. 94304 U.S.A.
www.varianinc.com
650.424.5225
laurie.alire@varianinc.com
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About Labtronics Inc.
With customers around the world, offices in both North America and Europe and a wide-range of software products to choose from, Labtronics Inc. is recognized as a world leader in the development of innovative software solutions for laboratory instrument interfacing and laboratory automation. Further information about Labtronics Inc. and its products is available at www.labtronics.com .
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