Industry

Agilent Technologies has joined the BioIT Alliance, a cross-industry group working together to improve biomedical information technology with an early focus on addressing data-capture and data-integration.

SGI is now giving SGI Altix customers a free, one-year subscription to Interactive Supercomputings (ISC) Star-P, an interactive desktop tool for rapidly solving large scientific and engineering problems.

GenoLogics, a developer of lab and scientific data management solutions, has completed a second round of financing led by OVP Venture Partners in Seattle.

DEM Solutions, a leading developer of DEM (discrete element method) software solutions, has opened a US office in Lebanon, New Hampshire.

ClinPhone has acquired DataLabs, an electronic data capture (EDC) vendor, enabling ClinPhone to offer a comprehensive suite of clinical trial management and data capture systems.

Users of the new PerkinElmer Clarus 600 GC/MS will have the option to incorporate Ion Signature Quantitative Deconvolution Software for fast and accurate data review and evaluation.

InforSense, a provider of enterprise real-time analytics and Thermo Electron Corporation, a provider of analytical instruments, have announced a three-year OEM agreement, to integrate InforSense KDE and BioWorks.

A new study of more than 500 users, sponsored by Interactive Supercomputing, suggests difficulties in programming is increasingly becoming one of researchers biggest productivity killers.

The Numerical Mathematics Consortium has announced the latest revision to a technical specification that will resolve technical issues and includes the addition of new function definitions.

InforSense has received an investment of $10m, led by two of its largest investors, Fleming Family & Partners (FF&P) and Imperial Innovations Group.