Industry

Autoscribe Informatics has appointed Ritme as its distributor for the Matrix Gemini Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) in France, Italy and Switzerland

Cluster and cloud management software company Bright Computing has announced a partnership with Boston Germany

Tecplot, a provider of visual data analysis software for engineers and scientists in the aerospace and oil and gas industries, has announced that it has been acquired by Vela Software, an operating group of Constellation Software

Adam Darwich is teaching and conducting research into the use of modelling and simulation for individual patient dosing and helping to bring this approach into mainstream clinical care

Altair has announced that it has acquired CEDRAT and its New York-based wholly-owned subsidiary, Magsoft, expanding the electromagnetic and thermal simulation capabilities of its HyperWorks CAE portfolio

Cruise ships are more complicated than modern aircraft - they are made up of more than 10 million individual parts and assemblies, compared to about one million parts for the largest passenger airplanes and about 10,000 parts for a car. But both cruise ships and next-generation electric cars will benefit from life-cycle software, according to two announcements made this month

Two software houses providing bioinformatics and biosimulation for the life sciences and pharmaceutical industries - one based in the USA and one in Europe - have both announced that they are expanding into East Asia

Dassault Systèmes has launched a new open innovation laboratory and start-up accelerator programme

As part of its efforts to encourage interest in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics), Maplesoft is sponsoring several educational events in the coming months. It has also just released MapleSim CAD Toolbox

Certara, which offers biosimulation for drug development, has just acquired the UK-based consultancy XenologiQ, and separately, has also released version 15 of its Simcyp population-based simulator software