CLIFTON PARK, NY – Kitware, one of the nation’s fastest growing software companies, has been awarded $730,000 in Phase II SBIR funding from the U.S. Army Engineering Research and Development Center (ERDC.) This funding will be used for the continued development of an end-to-end workbench solution aimed at a wide range of chemists, from students […]

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. — Ingenuity Systems, a leading provider of information and analysis solutions for life science researchers, today announced the general availability of Ingenuity® iReport™, a stand-alone report that provides the fastest way to get biological meaning from expression data. iReport provides a fully integrated, one-step solution for the statistical analysis and biological interpretation […]

FRAMINGHAM, Mass. & TORRANCE, Calif.–AB SCIEX, a global leader in life science analytical technologies, and Phenomenex, a global leader in separation science techniques, today announced a collaboration agreement designed to significantly improve food testing. Critical to the collaboration is the creation of a joint rapid response team responsible for developing the industry’s highest-quality, most cost-effective […]

Redwood Shores, Calif. – Oracle Health Sciences today announced availability of Oracle® Health Sciences Omics Data Bank, a molecular data model, which is part of Oracle Health Sciences Translational Research Center. The new data model provides integration and analysis of cross-platform omics data to support translational research. Oracle Health Sciences Translational Research Center enables pharmaceutical […]

WATERLOO, ONTARIO–P&P Optica Inc., a world leader in the development of high performance spectrometers, announced today the release of Iris, a suite of powerful new data analysis software products aimed at improving the usability of spectroscopic instruments. The Iris software suite is available for P&P Optica’s industry leading spectroscopy products as well as other spectroscopic […]

MILFORD, Mass. — Waters Corporation (WAT:NYSE) and Ireland’s National Institute for Bioprocessing Research and Training (NIBRT) announced today the availability of the world’s first database for glycan analysis by UltraPerformance Liquid Chromatography® (UPLC®). Developed by Professor Pauline Rudd’s research team at NIBRT, the new GlycoBase 3+ Database is the first-of-its-kind repository of chromatographic retention positions […]

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – Complete Genomics Inc. announced today that the Journal of Computational Biology has published online the company’s paper describing some of the computational methods that enable it to produce highly-accurate whole human genome sequencing data. The paper is available at https://www.liebertonline.com/doi/full/10.1089/cmb.2011.0201. Complete Genomics performs whole human genome sequencing using proprietary biochemistry based […]

SHEFFIELD, England– Simcyp Limited, the leader in modelling and simulation of drug-drug interactions in virtual human populations, today announces it has extended its animal models to include a virtual mouse. Laboratory mice are used extensively in the development of new anti-cancer drugs as well as toxicological studies involving agrochemicals. This research often involves using mice […]

Redwood City, CA – The National Alliance for Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts (NAABB) has selected BioIT-award-winning CERF Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) software by Rescentris, a division of ELN Technologies, Inc., for NAABB’s data management, collaborative sharing, and intellectual property (IP) protection. NAABB also featured CERF as a panel topic at their recent annual meeting in […]

ABBOTT PARK, Ill. — Abbott (NYSE: ABT – News) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will begin implementing Abbott’s STARLIMS® software-based laboratory information management system (LIMS) as part of the agency’s initiative to enhance FDA testing laboratories. STARLIMS LIMS software will be used to manage complex processes and the analysis of […]