TOP NEWS

1. LIMS/Laboratory Informatics LinkedIn Group Hits a Membership Milestone

2. Ethosoft Releases X-LIMS version 3.5

3. Thermo Fisher Scientific Delivers Enterprise-Wide Connectivity with Integration Manager

4. Agilent Technologies’ New Version of Kalabie Electronic Lab Notebook Expedites Decisions, Helps Users Manage Workflows and Collaborate

5. Atrium Research Announces the Fourth Edition of Electronic Laboratory Notebooks Report

6 . Other News ...

7. Calendar ...

LIMS/Laboratory Informatics LinkedIn Group Hits a Membership Milestone

The LIMS/Laboratory Informatics LinkedIn Group has gone past the 1700 mark in its membership and is quickly heading toward 1700 members with membership jumping by several hundred just in the past few months, meaning that it should not be long before it hits the 2000 member mark. It is the oldest and largest group in the on-line professional networking tool, LinkedIn, that deals with LIMS and/or Laboratory Informatics. This group continues to be active with industry-focused discussions, news items and job postings ... >>>

Ethosoft Releases X-LIMS version 3.5

In keeping with Ethosoft’s philosophy of providing cost-effective, comprehensive, and scalable Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), Ethosoft has announced the release of X-LIMS version 3.5. With version 3.5, X-LIMS offers several major enhancements including improved traceability for inventory control, more methods for results data entry, and compliance with several new regulatory reporting formats for Environmental and Municipal Laboratories. These new features, in conjunction with enhanced existing functionality ... >>>

Thermo Fisher Scientific Delivers Enterprise-Wide Connectivity with Integration Manager

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has introduced Integration Manager - a flexible, powerful data transformation tool for automated data acquisition and point-to-point data distribution across the enterprise. Integration Manager provides connectivity to all parts of the laboratory workflow and translates the data generated by any of the instruments, services or third-party enterprise applications that may be used in an organization ...  >>>

Agilent Technologies’ New Version of Kalabie Electronic Lab Notebook Expedites Decisions, Helps Users Manage Workflows and Collaborate

Agilent Technologies Inc. has introduced a major upgrade to its electronic lab notebook (ELN). Kalabie ELN version 4.0 contains new functions to expedite decision-making, manage analytical requests and increase collaboration between colleagues. "Our customers place a high value on tightly integrating instrument data systems with ELN functionality,” observes Tony Owen, Agilent director of Software and Services Marketing. “While the instrument side of Agilent helps them generate more and better data, our lab informatics side of the business streamlines the documentation and management of that data. The biggest productivity, efficiency and accuracy gains are achieved by addressing both sides of the equation.” ... >>>

Atrium Research Announces the Fourth Edition of Electronic Laboratory Notebooks Report

Atrium Research & Consulting LLC has announced the release of the fourth edition of the company’s report, Electronic Laboratory Notebooks: A Foundation for Scientific Knowledge Management. Containing detailed research, this comprehensive study examines the ELN market, technology, requirements, best practices, legal issues, benefits, industry trends, and products. Called the “definitive document on ELN” by Indiana University’s School of Informatics, the 734 page report includes 200 pages dedicated to reviewing the latest ELN software products from major suppliers. Nearly 700 tables and figures illustrate key points ... >>>

OTHER NEWS

The What's News pages have been updated with the latest product announcements and information from Thermo Scientific, Ethosoft, Agilent, ATL, Symyx, Waters, the FDA and much more ...

CALENDAR

The Calendar pages have been updated with new information about upcoming Conferences and Seminars ... including:

The 3rd International Conference on Knowledge Generation, Communication and Management, KGCM 2009, will be held in Orlando, FL from July 10-13. For details, visit http://www.2009iiisconferences.org/kgcm.

The 7th International Conference on Computing, Communications and Control Technologies: CCCT 2009 will be held in Orlando, FL from July 10-13. For details, visit http://www.iiis2009.org/ccct.

The American Association for Clinical Chemistry's AACC Annual Meeting will be held in Chicago, IL from July 19-23. For details, visit http://www.aacc.org.

The 12th Annual Drug Discovery Technology & Development World Congress will be held at the World Trade Center in Boston, MA from August 3-6, 2009. The popular conference has been renamed “Drug Discovery & Development of Innovative Therapeutics” (DDT) World Congress to better reflect the needs of a changing industry and address the industry’s ultimate goal of bringing innovative medicines to the marketplace while dealing with the hurdles between the discovery and development phases. The 2007 world congress will highlight numerous case studies of how companies are moving from discovery to the clinic in creative ways and with fewer resources. It will have a special emphasis on how drug discovery and development is being done by smaller and mid-size companies in non-traditional ways and aims to challenge the conventional wisdom of drug discovery and look at new approaches and new ways of thinking. For details, visit http://www.drugdisc.com.

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Helsinki Chemicals Forum Highlights ECHA and REACH Regulation Challenges
by Helen Gillespie, Editor

Launching a new standard is never easy. Despite an agency’s best efforts, phrases will be ambiguous and easily misinterpreted, deadlines will be difficult to meet, unforeseen obstacles will occur. This has been the case with one of the latest European Commission (EC) chemical safety regulations known as Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of
Chemicals (REACH).

Started with the best intentions of consolidating disparate regulations under a single standard and streamlining cumbersome processes, REACH was adopted into law on June 1, 2007 with a ten-year phase-in plan expected to result in a unified, European Union (EU)-wide policy for chemicals regulation. The goal is to simplify and facilitate trade of chemicals and chemical-containing products between EU member countries, and is estimated to affect some 50,000 substances. Yet because REACH affects all organizations that ship chemicals in excess of 1 ton into the EU, it is also expected to impact companies worldwide that export chemicals or chemical-containing products to the EU. Of particular interest is a list of “substances of very high concern”, as products containing these substances may face rejection from European markets.

As part of the initiative, REACH established the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) to manage implementation of the regulation. As part of this charter, ECHA hosted the first Helsinki Chemicals Forum (HCF) from May 27-29, 2009 at the Helsinki Exhibition & Convention Centre in Helsinki, Finland, preceding the conference with a Stakeholders Day that invited public comment. ...

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