2008 Industry news

UCB expands Genedata partnership

15 December 2008
Biopharmaceutical company UCB has expanded its research informatics collaboration with Genedata.

QSI signs distribution agreement with Camlab

News image26 November 2008
Quality Systems International (QSI) has signed an exclusive distribution agreement with laboratory equipment specialist Camlab that will see both companies working together to market and support QSI's WinLims Rental solution

LabWare hosts Las Vegas event

News image26 November 2008
LabWare held its 2008 LabWare LIMS University event in Las Vegas from 20-24 October, attracting more than 200 delegates

Free chemical drawing package for academic and home use

26 November 2008
Symyx is offering its Symyx Draw 3.1 chemical drawing application as a free download for those wishing to use it for academic and home use

Kane signs FPGA sales agreement

19 November 2008
Kane Computing Ltd (KCL) and GiDEL have signed a sales distribution agreement for KCL to sell GiDEL’s PROC family of reconfigurable processors and software tools and libraries in the UK.

Tech-X signs Korean reseller

18 November 2008
Tech-X Corporation has signed a reseller agreement with Tae Sung Anst to represent sales of its VORPAL product. This arrangement will provide better local support for customers in the Republic of Korea.

Society spoilt for supercomputing choice, Ovum says

18 November 2008
Wolfram Research's recent move into the cloud computing field and Microsoft’s Windows HPC Server 2008 release are indicators that it’s not just the scientific community that has ample opportunity to use HPC resources, according to David Mitchell, SVP of IT research at analyst house Ovum.

LabVantage unveils implementation guarantee

14 November 2008
LabVantage has introduced a guarantee that will see its Sapphire BioBanking Solution delivered within 90 days at a fixed cost of $90k

Next generation sequencing platform selects data management partner

14 November 2008
GenoLogics' Geneus lab and data management system for genomics is being used by Illumina to provide a combined solutuion with the latter's sequencing platform, Genome Analyzer

Accelrys and Becton Dickinson integrate products

12 November 2008
Accelrys and Becton Dickinson have entered into an agreement under which the latter will integrate the former's SciTegic Enterprise Server (SES) into its BD AttoVision software

Archive

PerkinElmer announces new strategic direction

12 November 2008

Pfizer signs three-year informatics deal

12 November 2008

Wolfram announces cloud computing partnership

6 November 2008

Accelrys signs reseller deal with CADFEM

5 November 2008

Nine HPC giants to get special SC08 accolade

30 October 2008

Pittcon announces networking topics

30 October 2008

National Instruments reports record quarterly revenue of $215M

29 October 2008

Syngene appoints Asian distributor

29 October 2008

User conference highlights business value

23 October 2008

InforSense collaborates with GSK on drug discovery

21 October 2008

GenStat now free for educators and students

21 October 2008

Hamamatsu and Definients partner on image analysis

21 October 2008

Oil and gas company accelerates catalyst research

21 October 2008

CLC bio signs agreement with J Craig Venter Institute

21 October 2008

Ariadne appoints Japanese distributor

7 October 2008

Sapio Sciences launches best practice sharing scheme

6 October 2008

LIMS company picks up industry accolade

6 October 2008

LIMS is demonstrated on Google Chrome

6 October 2008

Cancer organisation awards compatibility status to LIMS

2 October 2008

Partnership develops sequencing analysis technology

2 October 2008

Good Products and Adlib Software announce OEM partnership

25 September 2008

LabVantage secures US federal agency contract

25 September 2008

Star-P software to support Windows HPC Server 2008

25 September 2008

Cluster Resources to provide Cray personal supercomputer parts

18 September 2008

DNAStar sign deals with US General Services Administration

18 September 2008

RaQualia selects Miner3D for its visual data analysis platform

18 September 2008

InforSense introduces PartnerSense program

18 September 2008

Thermo ships first InforSense Virtual Machine

18 September 2008

Partnership produces business analytics system

15 September 2008

Symyx acquires bio formulations specialist

15 September 2008

RaQualia selects Miner3D for its visual data analysis platform

10 September 2008

Wageningen University and DNAStar sign licence agreement

10 September 2008

Genedata signs license agreement

10 September 2008

ASI signs Russian distribution agreement

10 September 2008

Symyx Technologies acquires Integrity Biosolution

20 August 2008

Symyx opens its eyes with new software

11 August 2008

Market study reveals 20 per cent growth for ELNs

6 August 2008

New arrivals at Adept Scientific

1 August 2008

InteRNA Genomics signs co-marketing deal with Applied Biosystems

31 July 2008

Agilent ECM now supports Waters' Empower 2

31 July 2008

Symyx launches research services for life sciences

30 July 2008

Renewable petroleum company selects data management solution

30 July 2008

George Whitesides to deliver keynote at Pittcon

30 July 2008

Clinical research firm turns to LIMS for help

30 July 2008

DEM solutions extends distribution network

30 July 2008

HPC training and education needs highlighted in PRACE survey

30 July 2008

ATL strikes up sales alliance with iCD

30 July 2008

Adept announces Eduserv Chest and Maplesoft agreement

23 July 2008

Syngene appoints Varelas as distributor in Greece

23 July 2008

The Channing Laboratory selects LabVantage's Sapphire

17 July 2008

Paul Oxfeldt appointed ASI DataMyte sales manager serving Scandinavia

17 July 2008

Thermo Fisher wins Microsoft Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences Innovation Award

17 July 2008

Genedata and Axxam collaborate on screening data analysis

8 July 2008

LabVantage sees record numbers for Annual User Conference

8 July 2008

Thermo partners with NextDocs

8 July 2008

Grid technologies for business discussed at BEinGRID Industry Days

1 July 2008

Maplesoft and Mathworks relationship shake-up

25 June 2008

Ansys acquisition gets thumbs up

25 June 2008

Thomson signs Liquent duo

25 June 2008

Acceleware accelerates Matrix Methods up to 20 times

20 June 2008

Acceleware and Vector Fields accelerate microwave design

20 June 2008

KineMatik joins BioIT Alliance

20 June 2008

Good Products launches Clinical Technology Consulting Services

13 June 2008

Linguamatics joins Microsoft BioIT Alliance

13 June 2008

IDBS wins industry award

12 June 2008

UK distributor of Agilent VEE software named

11 June 2008

RTS wins innovation award

11 June 2008

Integrated expands its European distributor network

9 June 2008

GeneBio signs global distribution deal

3 June 2008

Analyst software improves food contaminant identification

29 May 2008

GenoLogics announces partnership with GenVault to releases BioVault Software

28 May 2008

GenoLogics picks up product of the year award

22 May 2008

NIH signs a multi-year deal for AKS2 software

21 May 2008

ClinPhone opens Paris office

19 May 2008

invivodata and ClinPhone announce ePRO partnership

6 May 2008

Thermo Fisher signs Chilean partner

2 May 2008

Date for second L.A.B. Exhibition and Conference announced

2 May 2008

LabVantage and InforSense create LIMS alliance

2 May 2008

ISC announces global partner program

23 April 2008

Good Products opens West Coast facility

14 April 2008

KineMatik expands North America sales operations

14 April 2008

SciFinder Scholar hits 1,500 subscribers

14 April 2008

ELN provider sees continued profit growth

14 April 2008

Ansys buys Ansoft for $832m

2 April 2008

Applied Biosystems partners up to develop bioinformatics tools

2 April 2008

Synoptics Group acquired by Scientific Digital Imaging

26 March 2008

HPC partnership for OptimaNumerics

26 March 2008

LabWare announces 2008 Customer Education Conferences

12 March 2008

DNAStar goes East with its software distribution network

12 March 2008

Agilent and ACD/Labs sign marketing agreement on method development software

7 March 2008

And the Oscar goes to...a computer scientist?

28 February 2008

Nonlinear Dynamics and UVB sign distribution deal

12 February 2008

ASI DataMyte merges with DDW Computersysteme

12 February 2008

Software providers report record year

8 February 2008

Applied Biosystems signs duo for future bioinformatics tools

8 February 2008

F5 alive: articulated robot launched

29 January 2008

Website allows flow cytometrists to try before they buy

28 January 2008

Maplesoft and Toyota enter an acausal relationship

28 January 2008

Microsoft joins forces with Spanish supercomputing centre

21 January 2008

Maplesoft founds physical modelling think-tank

21 January 2008

International Supercomputing Conference issues call for papers

16 January 2008

Nycomed extends its Genedata Screener contract

10 January 2008

AstraZeneca embarks on year-long pilot of oncology program

10 January 2008

Japanese distributor for Protagen

9 January 2008

Weather forecasters storm into high performance computing contract

7 January 2008

Top bioinformatics solutions provider revealed

7 January 2008

Thermo Fisher Scientific extends Caribbean distribution agreement

7 January 2008

New German office for embedded engineering specialist

7 January 2008

Ocimum acquires Gene Logic’s genomics division

7 January 2008