The cross sample testing capabilities within Autoscribe’s Matrix Gemini Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) have been enhanced.
Cross sample calculations provide the ability to utilise one set of results in the calculation of another set of results. Examples include blank correction, drift, spike correction etc. Previous versions of Matrix allowed the use of a test component result in the calculation of another result only for the same sample. The enhanced version now also allows the use of a test component result in the calculation of other results for a set of samples within...
Kontron joined with industry partners to open Internet of Things Cloud Data Center and Research Laboratory in Malaysia
Kontron, a leading global provider of Embedded Computing Technology (ECT), along with Cisco, Dell, IBM, Intel, and Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), joined forces to establish the Collaborative Research in Engineering, Science & Technology CREST Internet of Things Cloud Data Centre and Research Laboratory (ICDC Research Lab) in Penang. This milestone was achieved only 6 weeks after Kontron was named industry lead for...
Cresset, innovative provider of computational chemistry software and services, announces that its drug discovery arm Re-Pharm Ltd has used Forge to identify novel anti-inflammatory activity for an existing drug, which is widely prescribed for other non-inflammatory conditions.
Re-Pharm was searching for drugs to be re-purposed against a new enzyme target. Using known ligands and a crystal structure as a starting point, they used Cresset’s Forge to build computational templates to match any compounds likely to be active at the new target. The results were screened and RP0217 was identified as an effective new anti-inflammatory agent. Re-Pharm has filed patents on RP0217 for a variety of disease indications...
Company extends support and reach in the US for its Mosaic sample management software
Titian Software has further expanded its US operation following years of robust growth. Over the past decade, innovation and continued development of its pre-eminent sample management software, Mosaic, has secured it as the preferred choice for most of the world’s top 20 bio-pharma companies. Mosaic 6.0, released in late 2014, is optimised for the storage, processing, tracking and ordering of compounds, biologicals and reagents...
Titan Enterprises has released a new data recording version of its Atrato ultrasonic flowmeter software interface.
Easy to set-up and use the Atrato flow recorder enables data recording via an external computer. With features that provide monitoring, reporting and management of flow data - the Atrato flow recorder delivers a continuous picture of your process and a reliable alternative to restrictive and costly manual metering. The new software interface will be supplied with all new orders and can also be used with any Atrato flowmeter manufactured...
ZEISS has developed and released the new software solution ZEISS AutoAnalysis.
The application software analyses aerial images, taken by the photomask qualification tool ZEISS AIMS. It runs fully automated and provides immediate, standardized results. ZEISS has released the new application software ZEISS AutoAnalysis. The software solution provides fully automated analysis of ZEISS AIMS aerial images in parallel to the measurements as they are being captured. Manual interaction is no longer required, thus...
Booth #2837, PITTCON, New Orleans, LA, USA, March 8th – 12th 2015
Visitors to the Autoscribe Informatics booth at Pittcon 2015 will be able to challenge the Autoscribe staff to configure a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) sample registration/submission screen in Matrix Gemini on the fly. They can also challenge themselves to see how much they know about LIMS by entering Autoscribe’s interactive quiz, with a chance to win a Microsoft Surface Pro 3 Tablet. Autoscribe’s...
Beckman Coulter to use VNC as part of its life sciences and diagnostics products
19th January 2015: Beckman Coulter, a world leader in the IVD industry, and RealVNC™, the global provider of VNC® remote access technology today announced that Beckman Coulter will be licensing RealVNC’s technology for its support systems. VNC enables a computer user to remotely access another computer or device in a secure and reliable manner. Beckman Coulter will be deploying RealVNC’s top end solution, VNC with an Enterprise...
The Matrix Gemini LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) is attracting an increased level of interest from the contract laboratory sector.
John Boother, Managing Director of Autoscribe, developer of the Matrix family of products, said: “Matrix Gemini provides the versatility that appeals to contract laboratories, both from the laboratory information management and business management perspectives. This has been reflected in both the increased level of interest and increased level of orders that we have received from this sector in 2014.” Contract laboratories...
Automatic application of Matsy method for matched series analysis within StarDrop™ will guide compound optimisation in drug discovery
Optibrium™ and NextMove Software, developers of software and chemoinformatics solutions for drug discovery, today announced an agreement to collaborate on the integration of NextMove Software’s Matsy technology with Optibrium’s StarDrop software suite. The combination of these technologies will help guide scientists to quickly identify novel compounds based on matched molecular series analysis with a high chance of success...
GENALICE and Knome, Inc. USA jointly announced a strategic partnership to offer their products together as a turn-key solution for those using next-generation sequencing (NGS) data to interpret patients’ genomes.
GENALICE MAP is an ultra-fast and highly accurate preprocessing solution for aligning and calling NGS data and seamlessly connects to Knome’s informatics and genomics interpretation system, the knoSYS® platform. Stated CEO and President of Knome, Wolfgang Daum, “The GENALICE and Knome partnership came about in response to the reality that the amount of NGS data and its increasing usage requires processing and...
Tecan will soon be launching a new Fluent™ Laboratory Automation Solution designed to offer greater throughput and flexibility for compound management workflows*.
Building on the success of the Fluent™ cell-based assay workstation launched in summer 2014, this second application-oriented system introduces a number of new hardware and software options that simplify and improve the productivity of compound management and assay plate generation activities. The is ideally suited to drug discovery laboratories and centralized compound library facilities, offering a host of features intended to streamline day-to-day activities such as daughter plate generation, plate reformatting and hit picking....
Read MoreBruker Releases ONET Software for Administration of FT-NIR Spectrometer NetworksJan 15, 2015
Bruker Optics today announced the release of the new networking software ONET.
The software is a server application accessed via a browser-based web interface (WebUI), allowing to set up, administrate and control a network of FT-NIR instruments from a central remote location anywhere in the world. All data measured on local spectrometers are stored first locally and replicated to a ONET database for central access. Dr. Joerg-Peter Conzen, Vice President of Bruker Optics, stated: "I am excited about...
Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) specialist, Autoscribe Ltd, believes that its continued growth is due in no small part to the pricing structure and configurability of its flagship Matrix Gemini LIMS.
In results announced for the most recent financial year, increased turnover in the UK was also accompanied by an increase in orders of more than 30% from the US office, with both operations reporting increased profitability. Autoscribe’s Managing Director, John Boother, said: “In a recent survey of our customers, ‘Value for money’ and ‘The ability to configure for any type of testing’ were the overwhelming reasons given for choosing...
Edinburgh Instruments is pleased to announce the launch of a new version of their Fluoracle software for the FS5 Spectrofluorometer.
The Fluoracle Software has been designed to provide support for TCSPC measurements and add further high performance capabilities to the FS5. Mark Vosloo, CEO of Edinburgh Instruments commented, “We believe in remaining at the forefront of leading edge technology development. Fluoracle enhance TCSPC measurements and delivers not only high performance results for us but also for our customers. To stay ahead, we continuously work hard to deliver faster, reliable and accurate analytical instrumentation.”
Kelsius is a new temperature monitoring system that has been unveiled by Lec Medical.
The system offers a completely wireless setup that automates the process of temperature monitoring in controlled storage and testing environments, and provides a fail-safe solution for busy hospitals, laboratories and larger pharmacies. In the event of the temperature deviating from pre-set parameters, the system automatically alarms designated staff...
Two new case studies highlighting the versatility of the Matrix Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) at Castrol’s Lubricant Technology Centre and Cavendish Nuclear’s environmental laboratory are now available for download.
'Matrix Provides Paperless LIMS At Castrol’ describes how product and development scientists at the Lubricant Technology Centre at Castrol, Pangbourne, Berkshire, UK, can request analytical tests and receive results by accessing Matrix from their own computers. Castrol, part of BP, has been a Matrix LIMS customer for more than 20 years. The analytical laboratory at Pangbourne provides a comprehensive test facility for the...
Cresset, innovative provider of computational chemistry software and services, is pleased to announce that Monash University Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Australia’s leading pharmacy and pharmaceutical science educators and researchers, has licensed Cresset’s Forge and Spark software.
These applications provide extensive capabilities in SAR analysis, ligand-based molecular design and bioisosteric replacement. “Cresset’s software is used in the R&D departments of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies. It is great to know that our students will be using the very same cutting edge tools for their molecular design and optimization work,” says Dr David Manallack, Senior Lecturer at Monash University. “Cresset’s software will...
Researchers at the National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale, ISPRA) in Italy have been testing the TouchTools™ PCR Wizard with the Freedom EVO® PCR workstation to simplify complex genetics workflows.
Dr Nadia Mucci, a technologist in ISPRA’s Laboratory of Genetics, explained: “We purchased two Freedom EVO platforms in 2010 to automate our pre- and post-PCR sample processing, and chose Tecan instruments because we appreciated the technology, the support from Tecan’s application specialists, and the user-friendly software which offered us the opportunity to develop automated protocols for many more applications.”....Read MoreProximagen Licenses CressetDec 5, 2014
Cresset, innovative provider of computational chemistry software and services, is pleased to announce that Proximagen, a company focused on the development and commercialisation of novel therapeutics for diseases of the central nervous system (CNS), has licensed Cresset’s Forge and Spark software.
These applications provide extensive capabilities in SAR analysis, ligand-based molecular design and bioisosteric replacement. "Proximagen has successfully used Cresset’s computational chemistry tools in the past to generate pharmacophores from known ligands and to identify novel chemical series by scaffold hopping,” says Dr Ed Savory, Deputy Head of Chemistry at Proximagen. “We will be using Spark to identify new drug scaffolds and to...
Micronic has announced a new version 2.2.6 of its Tracxer storage tube code reading software.
Fully compatible with all Micronic tube scanners** the new user friendly software is easy to install, gives reliable code readings and can be smoothly integrated into any laboratory sample database. All new features in version 2.2.6 are included as standard in the software at no extra cost together with free upgrades and technical support. The useful new features including ActiveX tool kit, improved single tube reading functionality and...
Chiron’s website has recently enjoyed a dramatic make over, and now features a modern webshop, to meet the challenging demands of today’s 24/7 work culture.
Chiron’s new webshop already showcases over 7000 products, and is rapidly growing. The intuitive search engine allows users to quickly and easily explore a comprehensive range of reference materials for toxicological, pharmaceutical, environmental, food safety, petroleum and geochemical analysis. Inge Fenstad, the orchestrator of the online developments commented, “We are delighted to provide our customers around the world with the convenience and flexibility of browsing our offering, and placing orders 24 hours a day, 7 days a week”....
Cross sample calculations provide the ability to utilise one set of results in the calculation of another set of results. Examples include blank correction, drift, spike correction etc. Previous versions of Matrix allowed the use of a test component result in the calculation of another result only for the same sample. The enhanced version now also allows the use of a test component result in the calculation of other results for a set of samples within...
Kontron, a leading global provider of Embedded Computing Technology (ECT), along with Cisco, Dell, IBM, Intel, and Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), joined forces to establish the Collaborative Research in Engineering, Science & Technology CREST Internet of Things Cloud Data Centre and Research Laboratory (ICDC Research Lab) in Penang. This milestone was achieved only 6 weeks after Kontron was named industry lead for...
Re-Pharm was searching for drugs to be re-purposed against a new enzyme target. Using known ligands and a crystal structure as a starting point, they used Cresset’s Forge to build computational templates to match any compounds likely to be active at the new target. The results were screened and RP0217 was identified as an effective new anti-inflammatory agent. Re-Pharm has filed patents on RP0217 for a variety of disease indications...
Titian Software has further expanded its US operation following years of robust growth. Over the past decade, innovation and continued development of its pre-eminent sample management software, Mosaic, has secured it as the preferred choice for most of the world’s top 20 bio-pharma companies. Mosaic 6.0, released in late 2014, is optimised for the storage, processing, tracking and ordering of compounds, biologicals and reagents...
Easy to set-up and use the Atrato flow recorder enables data recording via an external computer. With features that provide monitoring, reporting and management of flow data - the Atrato flow recorder delivers a continuous picture of your process and a reliable alternative to restrictive and costly manual metering. The new software interface will be supplied with all new orders and can also be used with any Atrato flowmeter manufactured...
The application software analyses aerial images, taken by the photomask qualification tool ZEISS AIMS. It runs fully automated and provides immediate, standardized results. ZEISS has released the new application software ZEISS AutoAnalysis. The software solution provides fully automated analysis of ZEISS AIMS aerial images in parallel to the measurements as they are being captured. Manual interaction is no longer required, thus...
Visitors to the Autoscribe Informatics booth at Pittcon 2015 will be able to challenge the Autoscribe staff to configure a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) sample registration/submission screen in Matrix Gemini on the fly. They can also challenge themselves to see how much they know about LIMS by entering Autoscribe’s interactive quiz, with a chance to win a Microsoft Surface Pro 3 Tablet. Autoscribe’s...
19th January 2015: Beckman Coulter, a world leader in the IVD industry, and RealVNC™, the global provider of VNC® remote access technology today announced that Beckman Coulter will be licensing RealVNC’s technology for its support systems. VNC enables a computer user to remotely access another computer or device in a secure and reliable manner. Beckman Coulter will be deploying RealVNC’s top end solution, VNC with an Enterprise...
John Boother, Managing Director of Autoscribe, developer of the Matrix family of products, said: “Matrix Gemini provides the versatility that appeals to contract laboratories, both from the laboratory information management and business management perspectives. This has been reflected in both the increased level of interest and increased level of orders that we have received from this sector in 2014.” Contract laboratories...
Optibrium™ and NextMove Software, developers of software and chemoinformatics solutions for drug discovery, today announced an agreement to collaborate on the integration of NextMove Software’s Matsy technology with Optibrium’s StarDrop software suite. The combination of these technologies will help guide scientists to quickly identify novel compounds based on matched molecular series analysis with a high chance of success...
GENALICE MAP is an ultra-fast and highly accurate preprocessing solution for aligning and calling NGS data and seamlessly connects to Knome’s informatics and genomics interpretation system, the knoSYS® platform. Stated CEO and President of Knome, Wolfgang Daum, “The GENALICE and Knome partnership came about in response to the reality that the amount of NGS data and its increasing usage requires processing and...
The software is a server application accessed via a browser-based web interface (WebUI), allowing to set up, administrate and control a network of FT-NIR instruments from a central remote location anywhere in the world. All data measured on local spectrometers are stored first locally and replicated to a ONET database for central access. Dr. Joerg-Peter Conzen, Vice President of Bruker Optics, stated: "I am excited about...
In results announced for the most recent financial year, increased turnover in the UK was also accompanied by an increase in orders of more than 30% from the US office, with both operations reporting increased profitability. Autoscribe’s Managing Director, John Boother, said: “In a recent survey of our customers, ‘Value for money’ and ‘The ability to configure for any type of testing’ were the overwhelming reasons given for choosing...
The Fluoracle Software has been designed to provide support for TCSPC measurements and add further high performance capabilities to the FS5. Mark Vosloo, CEO of Edinburgh Instruments commented, “We believe in remaining at the forefront of leading edge technology development. Fluoracle enhance TCSPC measurements and delivers not only high performance results for us but also for our customers. To stay ahead, we continuously work hard to deliver faster, reliable and accurate analytical instrumentation.”
The system offers a completely wireless setup that automates the process of temperature monitoring in controlled storage and testing environments, and provides a fail-safe solution for busy hospitals, laboratories and larger pharmacies. In the event of the temperature deviating from pre-set parameters, the system automatically alarms designated staff...
'Matrix Provides Paperless LIMS At Castrol’ describes how product and development scientists at the Lubricant Technology Centre at Castrol, Pangbourne, Berkshire, UK, can request analytical tests and receive results by accessing Matrix from their own computers. Castrol, part of BP, has been a Matrix LIMS customer for more than 20 years. The analytical laboratory at Pangbourne provides a comprehensive test facility for the...
These applications provide extensive capabilities in SAR analysis, ligand-based molecular design and bioisosteric replacement. "Proximagen has successfully used Cresset’s computational chemistry tools in the past to generate pharmacophores from known ligands and to identify novel chemical series by scaffold hopping,” says Dr Ed Savory, Deputy Head of Chemistry at Proximagen. “We will be using Spark to identify new drug scaffolds and to...
Fully compatible with all Micronic tube scanners** the new user friendly software is easy to install, gives reliable code readings and can be smoothly integrated into any laboratory sample database. All new features in version 2.2.6 are included as standard in the software at no extra cost together with free upgrades and technical support. The useful new features including ActiveX tool kit, improved single tube reading functionality and...