We are delighted to announce the new Optima Laboratory Resource Management System - LRMS version 2021.1. It is a major milestone incorporating a sophisticated engine that automates the complex scheduling process of the laboratory resources. Optima’s algorithm combines all information collected in the system setting and the historical data generated, to provide a scheduling proposal...
ENPICOM, an innovative bioinformatics software engineering company, announce the upcoming expansion of the IGX Platform’s capabilities towards advanced liability prediction. At the Antibody Engineering and Therapeutics virtual conference, the company revealed its plans to integrate the Structural Antibody Prediction Platform (SAbPred) developed by researchers at the University of Oxford....
Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. (ATL), a leader in Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), continues the 2021 LIMS Webcast series on Wednesday, May 12th with Graduating from Spreadsheets to LIMS. This webcast is ideal for laboratory professionals who are currently using paper logbooks or Microsoft Excel® spreadsheets to perform sample tracking and result management, analysis, calculations, and reporting....
Micronic is pleased to announce the release of the new Rack Reader DR710, complete with the intuitive Micronic Code Reader Software. The DR710 is equipped with a deep focus image sensor ensuring the highest accuracy 2D code reading even if the tubes aren't flush with the scanner plate or codes are partially compromised. By activating the uniquely designed active anti-frost system on the DR710, ambient air is drawn into the scanner where it is cleaned of dust....
CloudLIMS, a leading provider of laboratory informatics, announces the release of a HIPAA-compliant, cloud-based, secure patient portal to enable clinical and COVID-19 diagnostic laboratories to offer direct-to-patient services for seamless communication. The patient portal is included in the latest release of CloudLIMS, a full-feature, out-of-the-box,COVID-19 LIMS...
The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has a wide range of effects on laboratories around the world. This includes not only the current high volume of requests for PCR tests for the novel coronavirus. It has challenged laboratories worldwide with respect to quickly adopting digital technologies to cope with the new norms of social distancing, remote work away from laboratory benches...
Eppendorf has developed the brand new VisioNize® pipette manager and is on its way towards digitalization in manual pipetting. The system is ideal for scientists who manage a high workload and require many intricate pipetting steps. Technology solutions are here to help scientists improve speed, accuracy, and efficiency and collaboration....
Illumina, Inc. is transforming genomic data bottlenecks into catalysts with the launch of Illumina Connected Analytics (ICA). This new and integrated bioinformatics solution provides a comprehensive, private, cloud-based data platform that empowers customers to manage, analyze, and explore large volumes of multi-omic data in a secure, scalable, and flexible environment.
Micronic, leader in innovative sample storage and automation solutions, launches the Tube Handler HT500. The HT500 is an efficient and effective answer for otherwise monotonous and mistake inclined manual arraying of sample tubes. Reconfigure or single out sample tubes in 96-well format Micronic racks (ANSI/SLAS standard) for downstream processes....
Sepsolve Analytical Ltd has announced the launch of a ground-breaking new addition to its software suite: ChromCompare+™ is a powerful, yet easy-to-use, chemometrics platform for comparing multiple GC and GC×GC chromatograms and extracting useful insights into the constituents that are present. Crucially, it offers the flexibility to process data from a broad range of GC and GC-MS platforms...
Renishaw has introduced the Particle Analysis software module for its inVia™ confocal Raman microscope. The module automates the inVia microscope so that it can identify particles on images and then chemically analyse them using Raman spectroscopy. Renishaw's inVia Raman system has a high-quality microscope that is ideal for producing optical images of particles on surfaces....
Ziath has released a module to enable their Mirage, Cube or Express tube readers to decode Brooks Acoustix tubes. Acoustix is a small sample tube with a screw cap which is increasingly favored for storage of novel compounds in solution in large compound stores. It is also compatible with the latest generation of Labcyte Echo acoustic dispensers. However, many traditional tube readers find Acoustix tubes difficult to read because the code is split into 4 sections....
The universal digital platform from Metrohm integrates the latest laboratory balance from Sartorius. Thanks to an extension (QApp) implemented on the balance, Cubis® II from Sartorius has become a fully integrated module of the OMNIS platform. Opening OMNIS to leading third-party manufacturers underlines the commitment of the global market leader in titration to create the preferred universal digital platform for the laboratory of the 21st century....
EU COST actions aim to connect and foster collaborations between research communities in Europe. COMULIS is one such COST action focusing on “COrrelated MUltimodal imaging in LIfe Sciences” It brings together basic life science and (pre)-clinical imaging scientists to combine different imaging technologies with the goal to generate more informative data. The first training school by COMULIS was organised by Work Group 1, Correlative Light Electron Microscopy (CLEM)...
Nikon Corporation (Nikon) is pleased to announce the release of NIS-A NIS.ai (NIS.ai), an AI module for microscopes that enables advanced image processing and analysis using artificial intelligence (AI). NIS.ai is a dedicated module for NIS-Elements, Nikon's imaging software that integrates acquisition, analysis, and data management of microscopic images. The module utilizes convolutional neural networks to learn from small training datasets supplied by the user....
TTP Labtech Ltd, a global leader in the design and development of automated instrumentation and consumables for life science applications, has announced its corporate name change to SPT Labtech effective from January 6, 2020. The change of name is a contractual requirement of its divestment from TTP Group in 2018 with the backing of technology-focused investment firm Battery Ventures....
GenomSys, a software company which develops technology for efficient processing and sharing of DNA data, announces a collaboration with SysMeta IT, a digital services company catering to medical clinics and labs in Switzerland and editor of Tangerine Medical and Tangerine Diagnostics software packages. GenomSys combines deep expertise in data compression and computing with life sciences and bioinformatics capabilities...
Scientists save time and reduce costs by only ordering compounds with suitable solubility; aids screening library selection and sourcing. MolPort, the chemical sourcing experts, announces the addition of pre-competitively sourced solubility information to its comprehensive online chemical sourcing database. Its biopharma customers are able to immediately access and use the information to refine searches of commercially available screening compounds as required...
The expansion reflects the increasing business opportunities for the Matrix Gemini Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) in both Australia, New Zealand and the whole Asia Pacific region. The new offices provide dedicated rooms for technical, support and sales staff as well as a learning space for customer and distributor training. Matrix Gemini LIMS leads the market in system configuration techniques, ensuring that the customer’s exact requirements can be implemented...
Merck has acquired BSSN Software, a Darmstadt, Germany-based laboratory informatics company that makes data more readily accessible for ease of integration, collaboration, analysis and long-term archiving. “BSSN Software and the capabilities that it brings will allow Merck’s customers to better use and share their scientific data — the most important part of laboratory experiments,” said Jean-Charles Wirth, head of Applied Solutions at the Life Science business sector of Merck...
SES Water has chosen the Matrix Gemini LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) from Autoscribe Informatics to manage water testing results in its UKAS-accredited laboratory. SES Water is a water-only company and supplies residents in East Surrey, parts of West Sussex, West Kent and South London in the UK. The laboratory annually performs approximately 120,000 tests...
Three-year cooperation between both companies. Unique approach to quantum chemistry on near-term quantum computers. Merck, a leading science and technology company, today announced a three-year cooperation with Heisenberg Quantum Simulations (HQS), a startup based in Karlsruhe, Germany. The cooperation between the startup and Merck Digital will focus on applying and commercializing software...