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LABORATORY INFORMATICS


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5-7 March SmartLab Exchange 2012 Brussels, Belgium


6-9 March Forum 2012 Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA


11-15 March Pittcon 2012


Orange County Covention Center, Florida, USA


12 March


2nd Annual International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICB 2012) Bangkok, Thailand


13-14 March


Innovations in Healthcare Management and Informatics 2012


Bangkok, Thailand 26-28 March


10th Forum on Laboratory Informatics


Boston, Massachusetts, USA


17-20 April Analytica New Munich Trade Fair Centre, Munich


24-26 April Bio-IT World Conference & Expo’12


Boston, MA, USA


7-10 May Inform 2012 Hilton Diagonal Mar, Barcelona, Spain


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The Windber Research Institute (WRI), a non-profit research institute with programmes focusing on breast cancer, gynaecological disease, cardiovascular disease, health promotion and disease prevention, and IDBS, a global provider of enterprise data management, analytics and modelling solutions, have collaborated on the development of an informatics system for researching breast cancer causes and treatments. Integrating all the data acquired


from multiple platforms and making them usable at the point of need is critical to the success of translational research, and this is an important field of research and development in biomedical informatics. Working with Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, WRI and IDBS created


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Collaboration develops informatics system for breast cancer research


a comprehensive data warehouse comprised of a complex set of approximately 1,000 detailed breast cancer attributes, including risk factors, patient history, pathology and treatment. The Data Warehousing for


Translational Research system (DW4TR) integrates multiple data points on cancer attributes such as risk factors, patient history and treatment, and makes this information available in a single source to give scientists the information they need for research into translational medicine or for clinical risk assessment. The project has been featured in a joint paper – ‘DW4TR: A Data Warehouse for Translational Research’ – published in the December 2011 issue of The Journal of Biomedical Informatics.


IN BRIEF


Japanese agency Patcore has confirmed the global licensing of ChemAxon’s JChem Cartridge for Oracle to R&D-based pharmaceutical company, Eisai. Accelrys has announced that it has acquired privately- held VelQuest, a provider of paperless lab execution systems.


Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) has begun a long-term collaboration with InfoChem, a company dealing in chemical structure and reaction technology as well as data mining in chemical science documents.


Autoscribe will have a far stronger presence in US and Canadian markets following the formation of Autoscribe Informatics, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the company.


FURNITURE TEST LABS SELECT LABVANTAGE LIMS


LabVantage has signed a recent purchase agreement with one of the world’s largest furniture manufacturers for its raw material testing, development, quality management and process research laboratories. With the new LIMS in place, global test labs will better manage, control, and verify tests conducted on a global level and outside of the enterprise between approved external labs and suppliers. ‘This industry is familiar with our strict standards in materials testing and quality management, considering that we customise our own testing machines to facilitate our research. To meet this standard, our LIMS must be both powerful and reliable. After


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a thorough analysis, we decided it is one thing we definitely don’t want to build,’ said the global laboratory director.


Paolo Concio, LabVantage


European sales director commented that this was a major breakthrough, given that the world’s impression of LIMS and laboratories is that they are restricted to pharmaceutical and bioscience industries. ‘You will be astonished by the vigorous testing that furniture manufacturers conduct and will also immediately realise how critical a state-of-the-art LIMS is to them,’ he said. The features for this


implementation include advanced reporting and analytics decision


support, global accessibility via the Internet with multi-nationalisation (globalisation, localisation and multilingual support), ELN and powerful configurability. With LabVantage Connect, researchers can immediately integrate the LIMS with most existing instruments, including simple, complex and proprietary systems.


The centralised installation of the LIMS will support the organisation’s R&D lab, QA/QC labs and even its suppliers’ QA/QC labs disseminated across nations. This streamlines detailed laboratory resource planning and simplifies processes for both external suppliers and laboratories as well.


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