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Middle Eastern user informatics conference
Thermo Fisher Scientific is to host its annual user conference in the Middle East. Thermo Informatics World will be held from 14-16 may at the Jumeriah Emirates Hotel in Dubai.
Conference session to study trends in chemical industry
L.A.B, the new European trade fair devoted to analysis and laboratory equipment, will contain a special session dedicated solely to the chemicals industry.
LIMS system aids oil and chemical testing
Intertek plans to deploy SampleManager LIMS from Thermo Fisher Scientific in 90 per cent of its oil, chemical, and agriculture laboratories by the end of 2007.
Just water off a ducks back
Scientists at Sheffield Hallam University have designed a computer game that realistically models the flow of water around a virtual duck.
LIMS and SDMS software streamlines lab workflow
Singapore Health Sciences Authority (HSA) has selected Starlims LIMS solution, and Agilents Cerity scientific data management system (SDMS).
Pharma company saves up to 100 man-hours with document management system
Pharmaceutical company Forum Bioscience has begun integrating Version Ones electronic document management software into its JD Edwards World ERP system in a move to create an effectively paperless office.
Integration of SDMS and ELN systems
In a move to encourage greater interaction of disparate information, Waters Corporation and Symyx Technologies are to integrate the NuGenesis Scientific Data Management System (SDMS) with the Software Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) product.
Multi-strand approach to proteomics
Nonlinear Dynamics has created a new strategy for proteomics research using multiple techniques, following research that showed results gained from 2D image analysis mass spectrometry overlap by just 10 per cent.
New drug development software initiative
Applied Biosystems and its partner MDS SCIEX have created a new software development initiative to help pharmaceutical companies determine drug candidate viability early in the development pipeline
Parallel computing allows scientists to see the biology of cells
MITs Computational and Systems Biology Initiative (CSBi) is using Interactive Supercomputings Star-P software to create more complex biological models for drug discovery
Three-year licensing deal for DNA sequencing software
The University of Bristol has bought a licence for the current version of DNAStars Lasergene software for the next three years
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