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IT and Informatics Weekly New Product Roundup

By Salvatore Salamone Bio-IT World

Last week saw product intros that included an upgraded proteomics laboratory information management system (LIMS), a hardware-assisted boost to speed up Smith-Waterman calculations, and other products designed to speed drug discovery and development.

Cray announced the Cray XD1 Smith-Waterman system, a life science offering that bundles an XD1 computer with an optimized version of Smith-Waterman bioinformatics software. The new system leverages the combined processing power of the XD1’s 64-bit AMD Opteron processors and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs).

Cray sees the hardware/software combination as an out-of-the-box analysis tool for accelerating the Smith-Waterman algorithm for comparing gene and protein sequences. Specifically, the FPGAs accelerate a small portion of the Smith-Waterman algorithm – a portion that is very time-consuming to run. Cray claims the bundled system shortens analysis that normally would take days to hours.

GenoLogics Life Sciences Software announced the general availability of ProteusLIMS 3.0, a new version of its proteomics-purposed LIMS. The software is used in areas such as clinical and proteomics biomarker research. Enhancements in this release include new advanced search and analysis support. Additionally, ProteusLIMS 3.0 includes more tools such as barcode support, billing support, and workflow templates designed to improve sample tracking and help increase lab throughput.

New ProteusLIMS features also address data-sharing issues that often come up in a lab. For example, data from ProteusLIMS 3.0 can now be exported in the XAR (eXperiment Archive) format, which GenoLogics says makes it easy to share data, publish research, and conform to MIAPE (Minimum Information About a Proteomics Experiment) standards.

Jedox announced PALO, an open-source OLAP (on-line analytical processing) server designed to give non-IT users the ability to perform more-complex, multi-dimensional analysis of their data. Jedox says PALO overcomes an Excel spreadsheet’s 2D rows and columns structure by storing Excel data from numerous spreadsheets in a multi-dimensional OLAP database. This, in turn, makes it possible to picture the data in terms of complex models. PALO is essentially an open-source alternative (albeit with fewer features) to Microsoft’s OLAP offerings within SQL Server 2005. PALO can be downloaded for free here.

Symyx Technologies announced the Symyx Discovery Tools Extended Core Module (XCM). The XCM platform is a multi-arm, three-axis robot that allows researchers to set up laboratory workflows. The XCM is part of a line of Symyx lab automation and data acquisition products that includes the Symyx Renaissance Software Suite for designing, running, and evaluating research and development; an intelligent electronic lab notebook,; and other discovery and workflow software.

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