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Gentris Charts Expansion
Plans
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Pharma Services News 2008
Highlights
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News & Reports
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Information On-Demand
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Pharmacogenomics
Gentris Charts Expansion
Plans
By
John Russell
Founded in 2001, the
original business model was
to offer assay and assay
development services and to
evaluate new assays for
diagnostics. By 2007, when
original investors were
seeking an exit strategy,
the services and
diagnostics had become
quite distinct.
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Special Repot: 2008
Highlights
IT & Consulting
Tessella Pursues Lofty
Ambitions
Long known for its
scientific software
delivery expertise and
technical staffing
capability, Tessella is
mounting a push to climb
higher up the consultancy
ladder.
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Informatics
Accelrys' Success
Formula: Strength and
Scope
Founded in 2001 as the
amalgam of five companies*,
Accelrys leveraged its
early strength in
cheminformatics to build an
expanding footprint across
many industries. No doubt
the horizontal reach helped
it survive while others
foundered in the choppy
water of bioinformatics.
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Bio-repository
& Omics
Gene Logic Likes
its New
Trajectory
If there is a genomics
services boom coming - and
Gene Logic and its
India-based parent Ocimum
Biosolutions are counting
on it - few pairings seem
better poised to take
advantage of swelling
demand.
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Metabolomics
Metabolon
Pushes Metabolomics
Boundaries
Quality data generation is
a solved problem, says John
Ryals, CEO of metabolomics
pioneer Metabolon. Data
interpretation is the
challenge now and no one
handles it better than
Metabolon, he contends.
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Genomics Services
Beckman
Prepares for Services Gold
Rush
Like many others, Beckman
Coulter is betting the
mainstreaming of
genomics-based research and
the future growth of
personalized medicine will
create a large, robust
market for genomics
services.
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NEWS & REPORTS
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Symyx Releases
Notebook 6.4 |
The latest release has
improved support for method
development, validation,
and execution in regulated
and non-regulated
analytical labs.
Podcast -
Evaluating Translational
Medicine
| Kevin Davies,
Editor-in-Chief, Bio-IT
talks with Tessella
principal consultant Dr
Andrew Chadwick about the
promise and perils of
translational medicine.
Illumina Launches
High-Density Bovine
BeadChip
|The new chip contains data
from more than 20 diverse
breeds.
Horizon Discovery
Forms New
Subsidiary
| The new subsidiary,
Horizon Dx (HDx) will
support the development,
approval and sale of
companion diagnostic
products initially in the
field of cancer.
Agilent Tech.,
Covaris Announce
Co-marketing Deal
| As part of the
co-marketing agreement,
Covaris has developed a
special SureSelect
Accessory Kit to help
customers integrate the
technology into their
workflows.
GeneGo to Sell
Omicsoft Products
| GeneGo will sell
Omicsoft's Array Studio and
Array Server globally
except for Japan. Array
Studio is a software
package which provides
state of the art statistics
and visualization.
Pharsight CRADA
Delivers Tools
| Phoenix NLME and Phoenix
Connect were developed via
a collaborative CRADA with
FDA.
Accelrys Hires New
CFO & CMO
| Michael Piraino
joins the company as SVP
and Chief Financial Officer
while Paul J. Burrin
assumes the position of SVP
and Chief Marketing
Officer.
Thomson Reuters
Plans Profiles of Research
Institutions
| Thomson Reuters has begun
working on what it calls
the Global Institutional
Profiles Project.
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INFORMATION ON-DEMAND
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Podcasts
Leveraging
Cloud-Computing and Semantic Web
Technologies
Find out
how Daniel Crichton, an
informatics investigator from Jet
Propulsion Laboratories, used
semantic web technology to build
a world-class informatics
infrastructure enabling
biomedical research focused on
the discovery and validation of
cancer biomarkers while allowing
investigators to share the
scientific results and data.
Discover how GenoLogics and JPL
are working together to provide a
cutting-edge translational
research solution incorporating
JPL's semantic web technologies
and GenoLogics' cloud-computing
technology. Learn how it's all
tied to a large-scale multi-site
cancer research project.
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podcast
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Protect Your Scientific
Intellectual
Property: Proof of Lab
Informatics Data Authenticity
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As a bio-technology or life
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and discoveries are the
"lifeblood" of your business. But
if you aren't protecting the
integrity of your scientific data
in your lab informatics systems,
you risk losing IP ownership,
revenue and consequently your
business if you can't prove
time-of-creation and data
authenticity. Learn how you can
implement simple, cost-effective
and automated controls to protect
your scientific intellectual
property.
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Webcasts
Next-Generation Clinical
Trial and Data Management
Applications
This webinar introduces i3Cube - a
web-based, fully integrated,
clinical trial and data management
system built on Adobe's LiveCycle®
Enterprise Suite. I3 cube
provides end-to-end automation that
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Viewers will learn more about:
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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
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Insight Pharma Reports
Outsourcing
Preclinical Studies to China:
Benefits and Challenges
Author:Eric Meyers, MBA
Within the
past several years, a number of
government labs as well as private
and joint venture CRO's have or
will soon offer preclinical GLP
study services to Western clients.
This report, built on discussions
and facility visits to the most
advanced labs, provides a detailed
view of the current and evolving
preclinical study capabilities in
China, their structures and
services, as well as an analysis of
the comparative costs between US
and China-based CRO's.
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Industry
Trends
A Market
Model for EDC in Clinical
Trials
By Mark P. Mathieu
EDC vendors
are positioned to benefit from the
broad trend across the
pharmaceutical industry to redesign
the way drugs are discovered and
tested. As clinical
trials have grown in size,
complexity, and geographic reach,
the inefficiency of using multiple
processes to collect data has been
magnified.
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