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European research internet network set to include Arab networks
Dr Talal Abu-Ghazaleh, chair of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development (GAID) of the United Nations, has launched the Arab Scientific Research and Education Network (ASREN) at the EU-Med event held in Brussels, Belgium.
Building on EUMed Connect2, the high- capacity internet network for research and education in the Mediterranean co- funded by the European Commission, ASREN sets out to widen its geographical footprint by connecting other Arab national research and education networks (NRENs) in addition to the current
IN BRIEF
l Aureus Pharma is
participating in the €118.2m Biointelligence R&D programme, designed to promote the use of systemic modelling and simulation tools to exploit biomedical databases to improve research efficiency.
l Agilent has integrated Surety’s AbsoluteProof, a third-party timestamping service, into its OpenLAB ELN, providing substantial evidentiary support in the event of any legal challenge.
l Several companies have joined Altair’s HyperWorks Enabled Community (HWEC), including Digimat
l Up To Data has become a
member of Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Informatics Global Partner Alliance Program.
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l Maplesoft, a provider of high- performance software tools for engineering, science, and mathematics, has opened an office in Germany.
l The Kluyver Centre, a Dutch
industry and government consortium using microbial genomics to improve industrial fermentation processes, has extended its collaboration with Genedata, covering the use of the latter’s suite of bioinformatics products.
l Foster Findlay Associates
(FFA), has signed a six- year worldwide deployment agreement for the use of AVI 3D seismic analysis software by Statoil.
l Cresset has appointed Dr Rob Scoffin as CEO of Cresset Group.
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seven EUMedConnect2 member countries: Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Palestine, Syria and Tunisia.
This announcement marks a major step towards sustaining ICT infrastructures for research and education in the Mediterranean region for eScience across Arab nations. ‘We recognise that investing in science in general and in universities in particular needs to meet the ambitions of the Arab countries, hence, ASREN will act as an enabler and catalyst for creating investment in the scientific research and development in universities,’ said Dr Ghazaleh.
Centralised data management system aids fungal pathogen research
A project aiming to identify novel targets for diagnostics, patient risk assessment, and therapy of infectious disease caused by the fungal
pathogen Candida albicans,
has implemented Genedata Phylosopher as its central data management infrastructure. The multidisciplinary ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ project, funded by the German Medical Systems Biology (MedSys) initiative, is using Phylosopher to integrate and interpret the high-throughput experimental data generated within the consortium of universities, research institutes, clinics, and industrial partners involved in the project. ‘We decided to partner with Genedata because they offered a product-based solution for centralised data management,’ explained Professor U. Bilitewski,
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde project coordinator at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (Braunschweig, Germany). ‘Using Phylosopher we are able to perform omics data and next-generation sequencing data integration and analysis in one system. This greatly helps us understand infection mechanisms of Candida.’
Candida albicans is the
single most prevalent fungal pathogen causing up to 70 per cent of all fungal hospital- acquired infections and is a major problem in intensive care units. While anti-mycotics are often given prophylactically to combat this problem, this leads to the selection of resistant strains requiring new therapeutic strategies. The project aims at identifying biomarkers that could guide a therapeutic intervention.
Abbott completes acquisition of Starlims Technologies
Abbott has now completed its $123m acquisition of Starlims Technologies, the LIMS supplier. The acquisition provides Abbott with leading products and expertise to build its position in laboratory informatics, an emerging and rapidly growing field focused on helping to manage the increasing amount of data generated in laboratories. Starlims’ advanced web-based software applications help laboratories efficiently store, retrieve and analyse data and are designed for a wide variety of laboratory environments
operating across a number of scientific, industrial and clinical disciplines.
‘Starlilms gives us access to innovative technologies and technical expertise for our long-term strategy in laboratory informatics,’ said Edward Michael, executive vice president, diagnostics products, Abbott. ‘The acquisition enables us to provide a common informatics framework across all of our diagnostics businesses and, equally important, will help accelerate Starlims’ growth strategy in the non-diagnostics market segments it serves.’
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