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LABORATORY & STATISTICAL SCIENCE
Atrium publishes new ELN report
Atrium Research has released the fi fth edition of its report Electronic Laboratory Notebooks: A Foundation for Scientifi c Knowledge Management. First published in 2004, this new edition of the comprehensive ELN market analysis examines technology, requirements, best practices, legal issues, benefi ts, industry trends and products. Called the ‘defi nitive document on ELN’ by Indiana University’s School of Informatics, the 716-page study includes more than 200 pages dedicated to reviewing
the latest ELN software products from major suppliers; more than 600 tables; and fi gures illustrating key points. ‘The strong demand for ELN continues unabated with a record number of new vendor installations in the last 12 months,’ says Michael H Elliott, CEO of Atrium Research. ‘With more than US$230m in product and services sales forecasted for 2012, ELN is now a major informatics category.’
The total available market for ELN software is more than US$2bn with
less than 10 per cent penetrated by commercial offerings. The dynamic nature of biopharmaceutical R&D is helping drive new sales for increases in effi ciency, knowledge re-purposing, and to build collaborative ecosystems between partners.
As biopharmaceuticals continue to lead adoption, new markets, such as food and beverage and chemicals are quickly accelerating ELN utilisation. This is in stark contrast to the academic and government markets where sales continue to be anaemic.
IDBS ANNOUNCES SIX-MONTH PRODUCT LAUNCH PLAN
IDBS has outlined a range of products to be launched over the next six months, including web- based releases of its integrated enterprise software platforms. R&D working practices are becoming more fl exible, with particular attention to mobile data collection and access. In July, IDBS released a web-based version of its award-winning E-WorkBook, which allows users to search and review content while on the move. The next release of E-WorkBook
Web will support the editing of a wide range of content – as well
as web-based review and sign-off – enabling researchers to collect, calculate, store, search and use data across a range of browsers. This autumn, IDBS will release ActivityBase 8. This release enhances personal productivity and performance at a time of increasing data volumes, and further eases administration and deployment through a revolutionary web-based interface. Registration of samples and administration can be carried out securely and remotely to make the process of high capacity experimentation more effi cient.
Australian Research Centre invests in informatics system
The Australian Research Centre’s Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, based at the University of Western Australia (UWA), is using Agilent’s informatics system in its research to build a plant protein monitoring database. The database will serve as a vital research tool for current investigations of how plants respond to environmental change. Driven by Agilent’s informatics systems, the database will be shared with a global community of researchers and used to
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address a range of challenges, such as how to feed an ever-increasing population and how to get plants to grow in arid or cold or environments. UWA will use an Agilent HPLC-Chip MS system, OpenLab Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) and Enterprise Content Manager (ECM). ‘This collaboration will allow us to revolutionise the way scientists use their lab book and interrogate their data,’ said Winthrop Professor Harvey Millar, plant energy biology chief investigator, UWA.
With the launch of Biomolecular Hub earlier this year, omics researchers were provided with unprecedented data management capability for their high volume complex data. To further enhance this research, IDBS will launch a high-capacity omics analysis system at the IDBS Translational Research & Biomarker Symposium event in October.
This builds upon the scalable infrastructure it has developed to give fast analysis of high context omic data, molecular analysis and research collaboration.
IN BRIEF
Syngene International, an Indian contract research organisation, has signed a three-year contract to provide its scientists unlimited access to SciFinder, the chemistry research tool from CAS. Cresset and Redx Pharma have signed a major drug discovery collaboration, giving the latter access to Cresset’s publicly available and proprietary computational chemistry technologies for use on its portfolio of drug discovery programmes. CLC bio Japan is collaborating with Riken Omics Science Center to deliver free licenses for CLC Main Workbench to all academic organisations in the Tohuku earthquake and tsunami disaster area. Qlucore has signed an agreement with SinoGenoMax, a genomics-based biotech company in China, allowing the latter to use the Qlucore Omics Explorer data analysis tools. ChemWare is entering a strategic alliance with Healthpac Computer Systems to further enhance the integration between the laboratory and its billing partners.
Informatics collaborates on food additives
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) and Molecular Networks are collaborating on a food additives knowledge base. The three-year research collaboration agreement (RCA) will create the Offi ce of Food Safety’s food additives knowledge base CERES using Molecular Networks’ chemoinformatics platform Moses. The Chemical Evaluation and
Risk Estimation System (CERES) is a centralised, chemical structure- oriented knowledge base, which will establish a sustainable data/ information management and storage system to provide decision support for both pre-market and post-market safety assessments for food ingredients and food-contact substances. Included in CERES is the development of structural alerts, computational toxicology and metabolism prediction models.
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