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NEWS QSI Releases WinLims Module for Consumables Stock Control Quality
Systems International (QSI) has created a new software application that
enables companies and laboratories to easily and efficiently manage their
consumables stock control. The new WinLims stock control module allows a
stock record to be created for ... >>>Autoscribe Expands MATRIX GEMINI LIMS Business in Asia Despite the difficult economic climate around the world, Autoscribe has announced a growth in business for the first 6 months of their current financial year. This is coupled with a growth in profits of 20%. Autoscribe’s plan for further growth include the recent addition of a Malaysian based sales and support centre to provide local expertise as well as coverage for Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam with other territories to follow. This is provided by a business partnership with Chemoinformatics Sdn Bhd who provide enabling technology, data driven solutions, services and consultation to analytical, medical and life sciences customers at global level. Chemoinformatics has its office in Malaysia and operates through its sister concerns, ... >>> Agilent Technologies’ Electronic Lab Notebook Adopted by Institute for Medical Immunology Agilent Technologies Inc. has 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. Located on the BIOPARK Charleroi Brussels South, the IMI is part of the Faculty of Medicine of the ULB. Work focuses on translating discoveries “from bench to bedside” based on multidisciplinary teams of medical doctors and basic scientists. Projects are organized along four research programs addressing key questions in medical immunology: vaccine adjuvants, the immune system in early life, transplantation medicine, and immune biomarkers. Through its participation in several research networks, it is expected to contribute to the development of Wallonia in the context of the European Research Area. "The IMI subjected competitive systems to rigorous evaluation, and we’re very delighted that their scientists doing the testing unanimously selected the Agilent ELN,” said ... >>> Orion Environmental Inc Selects Locus Environmental Software Locus Technologies, an industry leader in web-based environmental compliance and information management software, has announced that Orion Environmental Inc. has selected Locus' Environmental Information Management (EIM) system to streamline environmental data management at its clients' environmental remediation sites. EIM streamlines the data entry, analysis, and reporting of water, air, and soil data uploaded from laboratories or input from the field, so that Orion Environmental can get reports and answers quickly. This data is stored in a central, secure location and can be easily shared with regulators, clients, or in-house management. EIM also provides standard analytical chemistry tools and report generation in an easy-to-use system for Orion Environmental. ... >>> Ariadne's Pathway Studio ChemEffect Module Deployed at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Ariadne
has announced that The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
has upgraded their Pathway Studio installation with Ariadne’s ChemEffect
drug-centric module. This module, along with Pathway Studio’s protein-centric
data, is assisting M. D. Anderson’s research pipeline aimed at enhancing
therapeutic utility of the enzyme-drug L-Asparaginase (L-ASP). Dr. Phil
Lorenzi, supervisor of Laboratory and Research, Department of Bioinformatics
and Computational Biology, who is heading research efforts for this project,
notes ... >>>OTHER NEWS The What's News pages have been updated with the latest product announcements and information from Thermo Fisher, QSI, Autoscribe, Agilent Technologies, the FDA and much more ... CALENDAR The Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA) will host LabAutomation2010 will be held in Palm Springs, CA from January 23-27. LabAutomation2010, the world's largest conference and exhibition focused exclusively on the rapidly growing field of laboratory automation, brings together a diverse group of academicians, scientists, engineers, business leaders, post-docs and graduate students from around the globe. For details, visit http://labautomation.org. Electronic Laboratory Notebooks will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel - St James in London, UK from January 27-28. SMi's 3rd Annual Electronic Laboratory Notebooks conference provides delegates with essential information relating to previous experiences of the implementation and use of ELN software. Avoid common pitfalls and stumbling blocks by learning from the mistakes of your peers through detailed case studies. Data management will also be addressed, along with the legal framework for such systems. For details, visit http://www.smi-online.co.uk/events/overview.asp?is=4&ref=3179. Adopting R&D Informatics Systems Data Management, Integration, & Knowledge Management will be held at the Moscone North Convention Center in San Francisco, CA from February 3-5. This conference is part of the Informatics Channel that will take place at CHI's 17th International Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference and will bring together a unique mix of delegates from both Pharmaceutical and Biotech IT, research informatics groups and those involved with knowledge management, translational informatics and computational approaches to drug discovery. Everyone together in one location with one purpose: to further the adoption of integrated R&D informatics systems and accelerate drug discovery. A recent trend toward the use of open source and public platforms to drive drug discovery will be featured extensively throughout the program and include talks from Pfizer, Eli Lilly, and Gilead. Several presentations will touch upon recent strategies with cloud, wikis, ontologies, open data standards and the semantic web. For details, visit http://www.tri-conference.com. For more events, click here |
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2009:
The Year in Review
Looking
back at 2009, there are certainly things to throw into the fire: an evil
economy, loss of jobs, loss of sales. Fortunately the LIMS industry
was not hit as hard as other sectors. Of course there was streamlining--from
internal reorganizations to mergers and acquisition--but companies continued
to install new LIMS, new LIMS were introduced, and a plethora of enhancements
and add-ons for existing LIMS were offered. Many Informatics vendors
reported strong sales and growth during the year. From the top of the year when LabAnswer acquired Laboratory Automation Solutions in January to July when the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity picked up steam with the announcements that LabVantage would acquire Life Technologies’ SQL*LIMS business and that IDBS would acquire InforSense to the startling news in December that Abbott would acquire STARLIMS, 2009 definitely saw increased M&A activity. Perhaps the Abbott acquisition was foreshadowed by the increased energy by Microsoft and other such vendors to make inroads into the Analytical field. Now
would be a good time to write down not only resolutions for the new year,
but a resolve to release the problems of the past year, consigning them
to the fire. Following is a summary of the brightest news from 2009,
with the LIMSletter’s annual Top Ten lists of LIMS and Informatics
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