The versatile Matrix Gemini Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) from Autoscribe has been further enhanced through the addition of a facility for the automation of quality control samples and how they are grouped together.
Accessed through either Matrix Gemini’s web or Windows interface, this is an enhancement of the existing ‘runsheet’ function and provides the ability tocreate runsheet templates and automatically build runsheets from those templates as well as performing standard QC calculations. Since laboratories typically perform the same type of QC over and over again based on the type of test being performed, Matrix Gemini now offers the flexibility to select the type of test, select a runsheet template, select a set of unknowns and have the LIMS build the run list and related QC samples automatically. This could include such qc samples as spikes, duplicates, replicates, spike duplicates, etc. Export of run lists to the appropriate analytical instruments has also been simplified...
New partnership between Malvern Instruments and RheoSense brings m-VROCi to industrial markets
“We are delighted to be working with RheoSense, Inc to bring the benefits of the m-VROCi to industrial customers across the globe,” said Steve Carrington, Product Manager for Malvern Instruments. “The m-VROCi is highly complementary to the existing Malvern rheological portfolio, extending robust, fully enclosed (no solvent loss) flow curve measurement into areas that simply aren’t accessible with alternative rheological instrumentation...
Data acquisition and logging of laboratory equipment cycle data is becoming increasingly important for many laboratories and institutions.
LTE Scientific’s Touchclave-Lab autoclave range addresses this issue in a number of ways. Unlike many autoclave manufacturers, Internal Data Archiving is a standard feature on all Touchclave-Lab models. Up to 5000 cycles are stored on an internal flashcard, which, when full is simply replaced. The data from the flashcard is easily downloaded to a PC using LTE’s Touchclave-NET software. All data is checksum protected, and thus tamper-proof....
This dedicated website developed by Alpha Laboratories provides a valuable resource regarding the serious issue of sepsis.
A systemic inflammatory response to a microbial infection, sepsis occurs in 1 in 23 patients admitted to hospital and has a tragic 16% mortality rate. Sepsis-Diagnostics.co.uk introduces QuickFISH™ rapid diagnostic technology. Using this simple slide based test, the laboratory can specifically identify the causative pathogen species of an infection, directly from positive blood culture - in just 20 minutes. This advance means that patients can receive the correct life-saving treatment up to two days earlier than with conventional diagnostic methods...
Data from leading antibody search engine CiteAb suggests that bioscience research in China is set to overtake the United States within the next five to ten years.
CiteAb spun out from the University of Bath in early February 2014. The company has a database containing over 1.8m antibodies from suppliers all over the world, and uses academic research citations to rank antibodies. This gives the company an overview of the amount of research being carried out in over 100 different countries. Founder of CiteAb, Dr Andrew Chalmers, said: “Our data highlights the number of academic research papers using antibodies that are produced by each country, and therefore acts as a fantastic indicator of bioscience research activity around the world. “The data we’ve pulled from CiteAb clearly shows that China is the big winner at the moment...
As more clinicians and researchers come to rely upon genetic data in their quest to combat thousands of devastating human diseases and conditions, accurate and speedy analysis of that constantly expanding body of data becomes increasingly critical. Addressing this need, Moscow startup iBinom has released the beta version of a cloud-based SaaS (Software as a Service) solution for NGS (next-generation-sequencing) data interpretation. The company describes the iBinom solution as a true revolution in clinical interpretation of human genome and exome data...
Read MoreMSoft eSolutions Wins Prestigious Medical and Life Sciences AwardMar 19, 2014
The Merseyside-headquartered firm picked up the award at a leading business awards event in Warrington.
MSoft won the Made in the North West Medical and Life Sciences Company of the Year and now goes through to compete for the national award in the same category at the International Festival for Business in Liverpool in July. MSoft beat off stiff competition from other leading companies in the category including Redx Pharma, Biofortuna, Arcis Altos and Perfectus Biomed. Judges said that “the software company was the standout winner”...
Markes International (Llantrisant, UK), a leading innovator and manufacturer of technology for trace organic analysis, has announced the launch of its new website.
“With new application-specific content, improved navigation, and an enhanced online shop, we’ve made it much easier for our customers to find what they’re looking for, quickly and easily”, said Dr Gavin Davies, Marketing Manager at Markes. The new website features a range of new content, written by Markes’ specialists, explaining key issues and approaches to using the latest thermal desorption (TD) and mass spectrometry (MS) technologies across multiple gas chromatography (GC) application areas - everything from environmental and petrochem to metabolomics and food analysis....
For the second year, Veeva Systems has been ranked by life sciences leaders as one of the top preferred software providers to the industry, based on the Leading Indicators in Life Science IT Spending Survey[1] released by IDC Health Insights. The 2014 report shows Veeva was the only software provider to increase its position, climbing four places, and is now fourth ranked overall. The only industry cloud vendor to be named, Veeva delivers cloud-based software solutions specifically designed to help life sciences companies achieve their most strategic objectives - bringing drugs to market faster and more efficiently, maximising revenues, and maintaining compliance with government regulations...
John comes to LabAnswer with 20 years of R&D experience. Most recently, he was with Schrödinger, LLC, where he was Vice President of Professional Services and Solutions.
John’s focus was to expand Schrodinger’s footprint in scientific informatics. Previously, John was Global Director of Scientific Informatics and Solutions at Accelrys, Inc. It was there that John helped bring both the concept of Biological Entity Registration and Next Generation LIMS to market. In addition, John and his teams were responsible for building small and large molecule design environments. Before he joined Accelrys, he was the Philadelphia Site Head, Global Chair of the Structural Biology Domain, and head of US Lab Automation for the Discovery Informatics Department at GlaxoSmithKline, Inc. Prior to GSK, John spent many years at Merck and Co., Inc. with varying roles in biological and chemical informatics as well as computational science methods and modeling...
Antibody search engine CiteAb, which has developed an international user base since its launch in March 2013, has today announced its spinout from the University of Bath.
CiteAb was founded in 2013 by Dr Andrew Chalmers from the University’s Department of Biology & Biochemistry, in collaboration with Bath-based web development company Storm Consultancy, run by University of Bath graduates David Kelly and Adam Pope. CiteAb has disrupted the industry by becoming the first global antibody search engine that combines free listing with impartial ranking by citations. It is now the largest antibody search engine in a $2billion industry, and ranked number one by Google....
MSOFT’s Bloodhound Selected to Boost Patient Safety at Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Patients living in West Sussex will benefit from the introduction of a range of innovative blood-tracking systems. MSoft eSolutions’ Bloodhound solution will be implemented at Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust which has three hospitals – St Richard’s in Chichester, Southlands in Shoreham-by-Sea and Worthing Hospital. Bloodhound controls access to and from all blood fridges, while a bedside management system allows each bar-coded blood unit to be matched with the patient’s bar-coded wristband in a matter of seconds...
Link Technologies invests in online support platform to serve the oligo community
Link Technologies Ltd, an ISO 9001:2008 certified specialist oligonucleotide reagent manufacturer, has invested in a comprehensive online customer support platform – the Link Help Centre. Featuring three distinct components including an expansive resource knowledgebase, a ticketed technical support system and an interactive community forum, the Link Help Centre sets new standards in the industry for customer service...
CAMAG today announced the worldwide availability of a new version of its visionCATS HPTLC software (V1.4).
With visionCATS CAMAG have developed a state-of-the-art software for qualitative HPTLC analysis that supports chromatographers who use HPTLC for quality control, identification, and detection of adulteration, as well as stability studies in various fields of application. Besides giving visionCATS a new Look and Feel, CAMAG have implemented several useful tools, i.e. a clipboard function or annotations integration into reports, that make every HPTLC analysts life easier...
Olympus launches its OlyVIA Mobile iPad App, an image viewer dedicated to virtual slides.
Allowing fast and easy-to-use remote viewing, the free-to-download app conveniently displays large brightfield as well as multidimensional fluorescence images. Researchers and educators are now able to access their entire library of virtual microscope images with just a tap of the finger on the OlyVIA Mobile iPad App. Free to download from the iTunes App Store, the app is designed for images captured with the Olympus VS120 virtual slide scanning system....
Specialty pharmaceutical company Laboratorios Farmacéuticos Rovi SA (Rovi) struggled to find a new, more agile customer relationship management (CRM) system to replace an outdated technology.
The company evaluated different systems in search of a modern system that would fully and efficiently support multichannel strategies. Cloud-based Veeva CRM, part of Veeva Systems’ Commercial Suite, stood out from its competitors, offering a highly flexible and integrated platform that seamlessly connects sales and marketing teams with physicians across all channels. Today, more than 250 Rovi users in Spain are utilising Veeva CRM...
"SieveWare" software for particle size analyses, exceeds manual evaluation in many aspects, due to the fact that the software is able to automatically control the necessary measurement and weighing procedures– from the registration of the weight of the sieve up to the evaluation of the data. It is easy and comfortable to use making it an essential contribution to test sieve analysis. Application Examples - Cement clinker, chemicals, coffee, construction materials, fertilizers, fillers, flours, grains, metals powders, minerals, nuts, plastics, sand, seeds, soils, washing powder...
Global IT spending will increase at a cumulative annual growth rate (CAGR) of 3.6% to reach $40.8bn by 2017, predicts Ovum.
According to new figures from the global analyst firm, highest growth will be in the Asia-Pacific region, in the small to mid-sized enterprise subsector, and in the BI and analytics solution area. In its latest Global Life Sciences IT spending forecast* Ovum reveals that the increase in IT spending will be fuelled in large part by the growth in data analysis and related technologies, the acquisition of systems to comply with new regulatory requirements, and increased spending on applications that advance operating efficiency and automation. Asia-Pacific will continue to...
Titian Software installs Mosaic at four new CRO sites in China
Titian Software completes a highly successful 2013 with the announcement that its Mosaic sample management software has been installed at four major Contract Research Organisation (CRO) sites in China. Titian has seen increased demand for Mosaic in China, both at independent Chinese institutions, and in the Chinese facilities of global companies, and the recent installations include Genscript and Pharmaron. At the sites, Mosaic has been implemented to streamline compound management, providing teams with rest-assured inventory management, tracking and supply of samples for efficient workflow set-ups, with complete traceability...
Micronic, specialists in traceable sample storage solutions, has announced a further addition to its popular ‘blue-white’ Tracxer Code Reader line.
The Tracxer Code Reader RD235 CRYO offers a high-end solution for scanning whole racks with 2D Data-Matrix or TraXis coded tubes. Featuring a CCD image sensor the new reader provides unmatched high resolution image quality, ensuring the highest accuracy 2D code reading....
Thermo Fisher Scientific is pleased to announce that its web-based ProteinCenter software is now available as cloud-based version and can be accessed by multiple workstations in a laboratory.
The software, regularly updated from all major protein databases, contains a consolidated, biologically annotated, protein sequence database that enables filtering, clustering and statistical bioinformatic analysis from single, combined or comparison data sets. It enables scientists to compare and interpret proteomics data sets in minutes instead of months....
A new case study, describing the use of the Matrix Tracker software in the mortuary in an NHS Hospital Trust, has been published by Autoscribe Ltd and is available for download.
Matrix Tracker replaced the original paper-based tracking system which was deemed to be unacceptable since it is difficult to audit or back-up. Matrix Tracker was chosen for this application because the tracking software offered by the provider of the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) used in the main hospital lacked the flexibility to allow the function of the system to be altered beyond a few simple settings, as well as being expensive..
Accessed through either Matrix Gemini’s web or Windows interface, this is an enhancement of the existing ‘runsheet’ function and provides the ability tocreate runsheet templates and automatically build runsheets from those templates as well as performing standard QC calculations. Since laboratories typically perform the same type of QC over and over again based on the type of test being performed, Matrix Gemini now offers the flexibility to select the type of test, select a runsheet template, select a set of unknowns and have the LIMS build the run list and related QC samples automatically. This could include such qc samples as spikes, duplicates, replicates, spike duplicates, etc. Export of run lists to the appropriate analytical instruments has also been simplified...
“We are delighted to be working with RheoSense, Inc to bring the benefits of the m-VROCi to industrial customers across the globe,” said Steve Carrington, Product Manager for Malvern Instruments. “The m-VROCi is highly complementary to the existing Malvern rheological portfolio, extending robust, fully enclosed (no solvent loss) flow curve measurement into areas that simply aren’t accessible with alternative rheological instrumentation...
LTE Scientific’s Touchclave-Lab autoclave range addresses this issue in a number of ways. Unlike many autoclave manufacturers, Internal Data Archiving is a standard feature on all Touchclave-Lab models. Up to 5000 cycles are stored on an internal flashcard, which, when full is simply replaced. The data from the flashcard is easily downloaded to a PC using LTE’s Touchclave-NET software. All data is checksum protected, and thus tamper-proof....
CiteAb spun out from the University of Bath in early February 2014. The company has a database containing over 1.8m antibodies from suppliers all over the world, and uses academic research citations to rank antibodies. This gives the company an overview of the amount of research being carried out in over 100 different countries. Founder of CiteAb, Dr Andrew Chalmers, said: “Our data highlights the number of academic research papers using antibodies that are produced by each country, and therefore acts as a fantastic indicator of bioscience research activity around the world. “The data we’ve pulled from CiteAb clearly shows that China is the big winner at the moment...
As more clinicians and researchers come to rely upon genetic data in their quest to combat thousands of devastating human diseases and conditions, accurate and speedy analysis of that constantly expanding body of data becomes increasingly critical. Addressing this need, Moscow startup iBinom has released the beta version of a cloud-based SaaS (Software as a Service) solution for NGS (next-generation-sequencing) data interpretation. The company describes the iBinom solution as a true revolution in clinical interpretation of human genome and exome data...
“With new application-specific content, improved navigation, and an enhanced online shop, we’ve made it much easier for our customers to find what they’re looking for, quickly and easily”, said Dr Gavin Davies, Marketing Manager at Markes. The new website features a range of new content, written by Markes’ specialists, explaining key issues and approaches to using the latest thermal desorption (TD) and mass spectrometry (MS) technologies across multiple gas chromatography (GC) application areas - everything from environmental and petrochem to metabolomics and food analysis....
For the second year, Veeva Systems has been ranked by life sciences leaders as one of the top preferred software providers to the industry, based on the Leading Indicators in Life Science IT Spending Survey[1] released by IDC Health Insights. The 2014 report shows Veeva was the only software provider to increase its position, climbing four places, and is now fourth ranked overall. The only industry cloud vendor to be named, Veeva delivers cloud-based software solutions specifically designed to help life sciences companies achieve their most strategic objectives - bringing drugs to market faster and more efficiently, maximising revenues, and maintaining compliance with government regulations...
John’s focus was to expand Schrodinger’s footprint in scientific informatics. Previously, John was Global Director of Scientific Informatics and Solutions at Accelrys, Inc. It was there that John helped bring both the concept of Biological Entity Registration and Next Generation LIMS to market. In addition, John and his teams were responsible for building small and large molecule design environments. Before he joined Accelrys, he was the Philadelphia Site Head, Global Chair of the Structural Biology Domain, and head of US Lab Automation for the Discovery Informatics Department at GlaxoSmithKline, Inc. Prior to GSK, John spent many years at Merck and Co., Inc. with varying roles in biological and chemical informatics as well as computational science methods and modeling...
With visionCATS CAMAG have developed a state-of-the-art software for qualitative HPTLC analysis that supports chromatographers who use HPTLC for quality control, identification, and detection of adulteration, as well as stability studies in various fields of application. Besides giving visionCATS a new Look and Feel, CAMAG have implemented several useful tools, i.e. a clipboard function or annotations integration into reports, that make every HPTLC analysts life easier...
Titian Software completes a highly successful 2013 with the announcement that its Mosaic sample management software has been installed at four major Contract Research Organisation (CRO) sites in China. Titian has seen increased demand for Mosaic in China, both at independent Chinese institutions, and in the Chinese facilities of global companies, and the recent installations include Genscript and Pharmaron. At the sites, Mosaic has been implemented to streamline compound management, providing teams with rest-assured inventory management, tracking and supply of samples for efficient workflow set-ups, with complete traceability...
