Company Announcements

In February, Genedata announced BMG LABTECH, Creoptix and TTP Labtech as new members of its Ready-to-Run program. The program enables members’ customers with an out-of-the-box, efficient connection of their respective instruments with the Genedata Screener platform.

Genedata established in February a new subsidiary in the UK, based in Duxford, Cambridgeshire.

IDBS expanded its strategic technology partnership with ChemAxon in May, making ChemAxon’s Biomolecule Toolkit for biomolecule-structure indexing and BioEddie platform for web-based biomolecule drawing available as part of E-Workbook suite.

In March, Sapio Sciences opened an office in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

LIMS provider Eusoft announced in April a commercial and technology partnership with Infinity Group for Poland and the Eastern European market.

In April, Simulations Plus announced a distribution agreement with Quantum Bio Solutions (Q-Bio) for South Korea.

In April, Optibrium and Lhasa, providers of software for small molecule property prediction, design and optimization, announced a collaborative partnership to research next generation drug metabolism modeling.

Product Introductions

Lab-Ally released in January the private server–based CERF ELN and EDMS (Electronic Document Management System) 5.0, featuring a new CERF Exporter app.

IDBS announced in March the extension of its E-Workbook Cloud to include pre-qualified service for GxP. The company has delivered over 30 validated installations of the system.

In March, LabKey and collaborator Just Biotherapeutics announced the initial release of LabKey Biologics, featuring tools for biological entity registration, assay data integration and workflow management.

Autoscribe Informatics launched the Matrix Gemini Field Analytics System, which allows test data to be recorded offline and uploaded to the LIMS when the Internet connection is re-established.

PerkinElmer launched in March the PerkinElmer Signals Notebook, a cloud-based ELN, which can be implemented immediately. It is fully integrated with Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office Online.

In March, Sapio Sciences released its Exemplas LIMS/ELN 9.0. It features the ability to support huge amounts of data without impacting general system performance, and new template-creation features.

Sales/Orders of Note

In February, IDBS announced that Achillion Pharmaceuticals adopted its E-WorkBook for electronic lab data capture.

In February, Autoscribe Informatics announced the purchase of its Matrix Gemini LIMS by a veterinary lab of Agrihealth Group, a provider of services supporting the agricultural and food production industries.