Cresset, provider of software and contract research services for small molecule drug discovery, and Liverpool ChiroChem, (LCC) a chemical technology innovator that produces chiral small molecules for biotech and pharmaceutical R&D, announce a collaboration to design novel compound libraries with the maximum pharmacological diversity within the smallest library size. Excellent library design is the key to efficient drug discovery.
Autoscribe Informatics, a leading provider of Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), is delighted to announce the appointment of Claude Hatfield as President, North American Operations. Claude brings with him a wealth of knowledge of the informatics market which includes significant experience in the Pharmaceutical industry. He held a number of positions at Ortho Pharmaceutical including coordinating workflows....
Radleys explores and looks into how automation is making a significant difference to labs, offering a variety of benefits. It is arguable that we are currently in the midst of an automation revolution. Most things are becoming digitised and everywhere you turn, it seems that technology is doing a job once reserved for a human. From the self-service checkout at the supermarket, to the maps app on your smartphone; some things are now so ingrained in our everyday lives....
Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. (ATL), a leader in Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), ends the 2019 LIMS Webcast series on Wednesday, December 11th with Roadmap to a Successful LIMS Needs Assessment. This webcast will focus on the critical role that a needs assessment can play in guiding an organization through the complex process of selecting and implementing a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)....
Optibrium™, a developer of software for drug discovery, has announced the introduction of StarDrop™ 6.6, the latest version of this comprehensive software platform for small molecule design, optimisation and data analysis. The enhanced software will introduce new in silico modelling approaches, ensuring scientists can easily link two- and three-dimensional structural information, identify potential liabilities and design new compounds with the highest chance of success....
The new Quantitative Assay Apps from BioTek Instruments, Inc. provide convenience and simplicity for researchers performing four commonly used detection-based applications: absorbance-based BCA, Bradford, Lowry protein assays, and fluorescence-based DNA assays. These easy-to-use Apps are powered through Gen5™ Data Analysis Software and are compatible with BioTek microplate readers equipped with the relevant detection mode....
To mark the recent launch of Edinburgh Instruments new RM5 Raman Microscope, the company has today announced its partnership with Bio-Rad and its KnowItAll Raman Spectral Identification Partner Program. The partnership enables Edinburgh Instruments to give its customers access to the largest Raman Spectral Database and Raman Identification Software....
Sphere Fluidics, a company commercializing single cell analysis systems underpinned by its patented picodroplet technology, and Peak Analysis and Automation (PAA), a leading supplier of intelligent laboratory automation solutions, have announced the optimization of the Cyto-Mine® Single Cell Analysis System through integration with PAA’s automated plate handler, S-LAB™. The addition of S-LAB to the Cyto-Mine provides researchers with a further streamlined solution for single cell analysis...
A new case study has been published by Autoscribe Informatics which shows how the Culligan Analytical Lab in Illinois, USA has made significant improvements in laboratory efficiency by using the Matrix Gemini LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System). Culligan Water provides innovative water treatment solutions to domestic, commercial and industrial markets. Laboratory testing to provide an accurate analysis of a customer’s water quality....
Optibrium™, a developer of software for drug discovery, has announced the introduction of its Augmented Chemistry™ services, which provide collaborators with novel artificial intelligence technologies to supplement their skills and experience, enabling them to make more effective decisions and advance their drug discovery projects. In discovery projects, it is important to base decisions on reliable data to avoid wasted effort pursuing incorrectly selected compounds...
The new Quantitative Assay Apps from BioTek Instruments, Inc. provide convenience and simplicity for researchers performing four commonly used detection-based applications: absorbance-based BCA, Bradford, Lowry protein assays, and fluorescence-based DNA assays. These easy-to-use Apps are powered through Gen5™ Data Analysis Software and are compatible with BioTek microplate readers equipped with the relevant detection mode, including the popular Cytation™ and Synergy™ multi-mode readers.
Peak Analysis & Automation (PAA), a global leader at the heart of laboratory automation, will be showcasing how automation can be used to enhance research - without involving major investment - at the upcoming ELRIG Drug Discovery 2019 meeting (5-6th November, ACC, Liverpool, UK). Dispelling the myth that automation is expensive, PAA will host a workshop at Drug Discovery 2019 entitled “High Value Research with Low Cost Automation”....
Optibrium™, a developer of software for drug discovery, has announced the introduction of its Augmented Chemistry™ services, which provide collaborators with novel artificial intelligence technologies to supplement their skills and experience, enabling them to make more effective decisions and advance their drug discovery projects. In discovery projects, it is important to base decisions on reliable data to avoid wasted effort pursuing incorrectly selected compounds....
A new package is available from Ziath, designed for smaller biobanks and biorepositories, that contains everything you need to start up and maintain enhanced sample integrity, tracking and audit trail. The ‘BB package’ combines top-quality 2D coded sample storage tubes, a high performance 2D barcoded tube scanner and a semi-automated tube selector that makes picking individual tubes very easy, all at an affordable price....
Autoscribe Informatics is excited to announce that it has appointed Mediproview Technology as our distributor in China for the Matrix family of Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) products. Mediproview, based in Shanghai, provides one-stop information solutions, focused on the delivery of specialist software for laboratories. Bob Blunden, Director Australasia and Asia Pacific at Autoscribe Informatics, said...
Micronic has launched the Rack Reader DR700 complete with in-house designed Micronic Code Reader Software and an optional Side Barcode Reader. The DR700 is equipped with an anti-frost system and a deep focus image sensor ensuring the highest accuracy 2D code reading even if the tubes aren't flush with the scanner plate or codes are partially compromised. The anti-frost system minimizes condensation of frozen samples on the scanner plate....
Syrris has upgraded the touchscreen firmware for its popular Atlas HD jacketed reactor systems to offer many of the advanced automation features previously only available using the system’s PC-based control software. These enhanced automation options – such as pH-controlled and temperature-dependent dosing – add to the system’s existing functionality to offer even greater flexibility in protocol design....
Digital Surf releases the Mountains® 8 software platform. This release builds extensively on the Mountains® 7 platform introduced in 2013 and now supplied by most major manufacturers with their instruments. It also sees the coming together of Mountains® (internationally renowned for profilometer and scanning electron microscope data analysis) and SPIP™ (widely recognized for scanning probe microscopy), thus setting a new standard for surface metrology and image analysis...
Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. (ATL), a leader in Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), continues the 2019 LIMS Webcast series on Wednesday, October 16th with Top 10 Reasons to Purchase a LIMS. This webcast will be ideal for organizations who know they need to automate their laboratory and want guidance on gathering business requirements and return on investment (ROI) justification to purchase a LIMS....
Peak Analysis & Automation (PAA), a global leader at the heart of laboratory automation, has released a series of new application notes demonstrating the versatility and flexibility of its benchtop S-LAB™ automated plate handler. The S-LAB is PAA’s entry-level automation solution, designed to easily enable multiple applications for faster scientific breakthroughs....
From its beginnings at the University of Oxford in 2016, Arctoris has established the world’s first fully automated, robotic laboratory dedicated to drug discovery, providing global drug discovery teams with on-demand access to a broad range of cellular, molecular and biochemical assays. The company’s automated system delivers high-quality data through standardised, pre-optimised and fully validated processes, while its innovative online portal makes it easy for researchers to plan, order and track their experiments from anywhere in the world....
Illumina, Inc. and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have announced they have entered into a collaboration for the co-development of secondary genomic analysis algorithms and software. Top data scientists from both institutions will collaborate to bring together the industry-leading open-source GATK algorithms with the speed and enhanced accuracy of Illumina’s DRAGEN™ (Dynamic Read Analysis for GENomics) Bio-IT Platform for commonly used methods....
Cresset, provider of software and contract research services for small molecule drug discovery, and Liverpool ChiroChem, (LCC) a chemical technology innovator that produces chiral small molecules for biotech and pharmaceutical R&D, announce a collaboration to design novel compound libraries with the maximum pharmacological diversity within the smallest library size. Excellent library design is the key to efficient drug discovery. 
Autoscribe Informatics, a leading provider of Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), is delighted to announce the appointment of Claude Hatfield as President, North American Operations. Claude brings with him a wealth of knowledge of the informatics market which includes significant experience in the Pharmaceutical industry. He held a number of positions at Ortho Pharmaceutical including coordinating workflows....
Radleys explores and looks into how automation is making a significant difference to labs, offering a variety of benefits. It is arguable that we are currently in the midst of an automation revolution. Most things are becoming digitised and everywhere you turn, it seems that technology is doing a job once reserved for a human. From the self-service checkout at the supermarket, to the maps app on your smartphone; some things are now so ingrained in our everyday lives....
Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. (ATL), a leader in Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), ends the 2019 LIMS Webcast series on Wednesday, December 11th with Roadmap to a Successful LIMS Needs Assessment. This webcast will focus on the critical role that a needs assessment can play in guiding an organization through the complex process of selecting and implementing a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)....
Optibrium™, a developer of software for drug discovery, has announced the introduction of StarDrop™ 6.6, the latest version of this comprehensive software platform for small molecule design, optimisation and data analysis. The enhanced software will introduce new in silico modelling approaches, ensuring scientists can easily link two- and three-dimensional structural information, identify potential liabilities and design new compounds with the highest chance of success....
The new Quantitative Assay Apps from BioTek Instruments, Inc. provide convenience and simplicity for researchers performing four commonly used detection-based applications: absorbance-based BCA, Bradford, Lowry protein assays, and fluorescence-based DNA assays. These easy-to-use Apps are powered through Gen5™ Data Analysis Software and are compatible with BioTek microplate readers equipped with the relevant detection mode....
To mark the recent launch of Edinburgh Instruments new RM5 Raman Microscope, the company has today announced its partnership with Bio-Rad and its KnowItAll Raman Spectral Identification Partner Program. The partnership enables Edinburgh Instruments to give its customers access to the largest Raman Spectral Database and Raman Identification Software....
Sphere Fluidics, a company commercializing single cell analysis systems underpinned by its patented picodroplet technology, and Peak Analysis and Automation (PAA), a leading supplier of intelligent laboratory automation solutions, have announced the optimization of the Cyto-Mine® Single Cell Analysis System through integration with PAA’s automated plate handler, S-LAB™. The addition of S-LAB to the Cyto-Mine provides researchers with a further streamlined solution for single cell analysis...
A new case study has been published by Autoscribe Informatics which shows how the Culligan Analytical Lab in Illinois, USA has made significant improvements in laboratory efficiency by using the Matrix Gemini LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System). Culligan Water provides innovative water treatment solutions to domestic, commercial and industrial markets. Laboratory testing to provide an accurate analysis of a customer’s water quality....
Optibrium™, a developer of software for drug discovery, has announced the introduction of its Augmented Chemistry™ services, which provide collaborators with novel artificial intelligence technologies to supplement their skills and experience, enabling them to make more effective decisions and advance their drug discovery projects. In discovery projects, it is important to base decisions on reliable data to avoid wasted effort pursuing incorrectly selected compounds...
The new Quantitative Assay Apps from BioTek Instruments, Inc. provide convenience and simplicity for researchers performing four commonly used detection-based applications: absorbance-based BCA, Bradford, Lowry protein assays, and fluorescence-based DNA assays. These easy-to-use Apps are powered through Gen5™ Data Analysis Software and are compatible with BioTek microplate readers equipped with the relevant detection mode, including the popular Cytation™ and Synergy™ multi-mode readers.
Peak Analysis & Automation (PAA), a global leader at the heart of laboratory automation, will be showcasing how automation can be used to enhance research - without involving major investment - at the upcoming ELRIG Drug Discovery 2019 meeting (5-6th November, ACC, Liverpool, UK). Dispelling the myth that automation is expensive, PAA will host a workshop at Drug Discovery 2019 entitled “High Value Research with Low Cost Automation”....
Optibrium™, a developer of software for drug discovery, has announced the introduction of its Augmented Chemistry™ services, which provide collaborators with novel artificial intelligence technologies to supplement their skills and experience, enabling them to make more effective decisions and advance their drug discovery projects. In discovery projects, it is important to base decisions on reliable data to avoid wasted effort pursuing incorrectly selected compounds....
A new package is available from Ziath, designed for smaller biobanks and biorepositories, that contains everything you need to start up and maintain enhanced sample integrity, tracking and audit trail. The ‘BB package’ combines top-quality 2D coded sample storage tubes, a high performance 2D barcoded tube scanner and a semi-automated tube selector that makes picking individual tubes very easy, all at an affordable price....
Autoscribe Informatics is excited to announce that it has appointed Mediproview Technology as our distributor in China for the Matrix family of Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) products. Mediproview, based in Shanghai, provides one-stop information solutions, focused on the delivery of specialist software for laboratories. Bob Blunden, Director Australasia and Asia Pacific at Autoscribe Informatics, said...
Micronic has launched the Rack Reader DR700 complete with in-house designed Micronic Code Reader Software and an optional Side Barcode Reader. The DR700 is equipped with an anti-frost system and a deep focus image sensor ensuring the highest accuracy 2D code reading even if the tubes aren't flush with the scanner plate or codes are partially compromised. The anti-frost system minimizes condensation of frozen samples on the scanner plate....
Syrris has upgraded the touchscreen firmware for its popular Atlas HD jacketed reactor systems to offer many of the advanced automation features previously only available using the system’s PC-based control software. These enhanced automation options – such as pH-controlled and temperature-dependent dosing – add to the system’s existing functionality to offer even greater flexibility in protocol design....
Digital Surf releases the Mountains® 8 software platform. This release builds extensively on the Mountains® 7 platform introduced in 2013 and now supplied by most major manufacturers with their instruments. It also sees the coming together of Mountains® (internationally renowned for profilometer and scanning electron microscope data analysis) and SPIP™ (widely recognized for scanning probe microscopy), thus setting a new standard for surface metrology and image analysis...
Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. (ATL), a leader in Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), continues the 2019 LIMS Webcast series on Wednesday, October 16th with Top 10 Reasons to Purchase a LIMS. This webcast will be ideal for organizations who know they need to automate their laboratory and want guidance on gathering business requirements and return on investment (ROI) justification to purchase a LIMS....
Peak Analysis & Automation (PAA), a global leader at the heart of laboratory automation, has released a series of new application notes demonstrating the versatility and flexibility of its benchtop S-LAB™ automated plate handler. The S-LAB is PAA’s entry-level automation solution, designed to easily enable multiple applications for faster scientific breakthroughs....
From its beginnings at the University of Oxford in 2016, Arctoris has established the world’s first fully automated, robotic laboratory dedicated to drug discovery, providing global drug discovery teams with on-demand access to a broad range of cellular, molecular and biochemical assays. The company’s automated system delivers high-quality data through standardised, pre-optimised and fully validated processes, while its innovative online portal makes it easy for researchers to plan, order and track their experiments from anywhere in the world....
Illumina, Inc. and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have announced they have entered into a collaboration for the co-development of secondary genomic analysis algorithms and software. Top data scientists from both institutions will collaborate to bring together the industry-leading open-source GATK algorithms with the speed and enhanced accuracy of Illumina’s DRAGEN™ (Dynamic Read Analysis for GENomics) Bio-IT Platform for commonly used methods....