July 08, 2009      
Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update

 Volume 7, Issue 26

 

In This Issue

 Announcements

LIMSfinder.com adds Forums to Linkedin.com to provide more resources to LIMS professionals

LIMSfinder.com is pleased to announce that we have moved our LIMS discussion forums to Linkedin.com. Visit the LIMS Forum and post articles, questions, jobs and network with thousands of other LIMS professionals. Visit http://www.limsforum.com today and join in. It is quick, easy, free and informative. There are 7,712 subscribers to LIMSfinder who are also members of Linkedin.com. LIMSfinder and Linkedin represent the best sites for LIMS professionals to network, collaborate and stay informed. The tight integration of LIMSfinder content and LIMS career opportunities with the Linkedin forums provides the LIMSfinder readers with the most dynamic and interactive LIMS community in existence.


Join the LIMS Jobs Group at Linkedin.com and build your professional network

A new LIMS professional network group has been formed at Linkedin.com.  Be sure to join this group by visiting: http://www.limsjobs.com.


 Bid / RFP / RFI Opportunities

07/07/2009 - Request for Proposal - Lab Information Management System (LIMS)

State of North Dakota - Crime Lab - Lab Information Management System (LIMS) Request for Proposal

06/22/2009 - Request for Proposal - Laboratory Information Management System

City of Boca Raton, Florida - RFP for Laboratory Information Management System Software with implementation services, training and support.
 Recent News

07/08/2009 - See the new PET and RadioPharmacy LIMS in Edmonton

Autoscribe and Zumatrix will be exhibiting their new PET and RadioPharmacy LIMS products at ISRS18, Edmonton July 13-16, 2009. Stop by Booth 18 for your personal demonstration or to request further information.

07/08/2009 - LIMS for Commercial Contract Testing Laboratories.

Despite the very wide variety of materials and associated testing that are serviced by commercial (for profit) testing laboratories, all share many requirements together. These requirements are well addressed by the unique features offered by Matrix Gemini LIMS, clearly shown by this market segment representing over 20% of the total user group.

07/07/2009 - Invitrogen Launches Life Science Industry’s First Complete Resource for Cellular Technologies and Education

Invitrogen, part of Life Technologies Corporation (NASDAQ:LIFE), today announced the launch of the life-science industry’s first comprehensive online resource for cell biology information and technology.

07/07/2009 - AACC ANNOUNCES LABORATORY AUTOMATION CONFERENCE IN KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA

The American Association for Clinical Chemistry announces the third in its series of Laboratory Automation conferences to be held in Asia. This conference, being held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on October 22-23, will address Laboratory Automation: Integrating Quality with Efficiency.

07/01/2009 - Ambient ID Unveils LabTrack™ Diagnostic Specimen Tracking Solution

Proven Automatic Identification and Business Information Management Technologies Improve Diagnostic Laboratory Operations, Reduce Testing Costs
 Upcoming Webcasts

07/21/2009 - Webcast: An ELN that Works the Way you Do

This complimentary webcast highlights a simple yet powerful concept for creating an ELN that delivers the full benefits of automation while still supporting the processes and the process documentation that currently exist in the laboratory environment.

07/07/2009 - Webcast: Getting More Out of Your LIMS investment

Join Labtronics on July 7th or July 9th and find out how improved instrument data management can lead to "Getting More out of Your LIMS investment".
 Upcoming Events

10/22/2009 - AACC ANNOUNCES LABORATORY AUTOMATION CONFERENCE IN KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA

The American Association for Clinical Chemistry announces the third in its series of Laboratory Automation conferences to be held in Asia. This conference, being held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on October 22-23, will address Laboratory Automation: Integrating Quality with Efficiency.

09/21/2009 - Metabolic Diseases Drug Discovery & Development

IQPC’s Metabolic Diseases Program is designed to bring together valuable case studies, lessons learned and best practices in the forms of panel session in drug discovery and development.

09/14/2009 - Product Enhancement Technologies in Pharmaceutical Life-Cycle Management

Pharma Life Cycle will focus on designing and implanting patent strategies aligning to product life cycle management, benchmarking your organization by listening to major case studies and discovering novel techniques in life cycle management such as co-crystalization and new drug development methods, among many other topics. Hear From Wyeth, Abbott Laboratories, Merck and Co., IMPAX Pharmaceuticals, PTC Therapeutics and many others

08/18/2009 - Thermo Fisher Scientific – Laboratory Informatics Symposium 2009 – Mining Industry in Brazil

Thermo Fisher Scientific will host it’s 2009 Laboratory Informatics Symposium (LIS) in Brazil. The symposium will focus on the specific data management requirements of the mining industry and will include presentations from leading mining services organization Sao Paolo-based Interfusao.

07/19/2009 - AACC/CSCC 2009 Annual Meeting

Join thousands of your peers as we return to Chicago – July 19-23 – for the 2009 AACC/CSCC Annual Meeting and Clinical Lab Expo. You'll be able to design an education program that suits your individual professional needs.
 Articles

The Benefits of Hosted Software

Hosted software, also known as on-demand software or software as a service, is ideally suited for small and medium sized companies (SMEs) with small IT staffs as it centralises the tasks of maintaining and updating the applications while spreading the costs over a broad user base.

The Gap Between LIMS Capabilities and Environmental Monitoring Needs

While laboratory tests are an important part of Environmental Monitoring (EM) operations, the EM workflow is complex and the EM workplace presents a unique set of challenges. Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) LIMS products bring a wide range of functions to help automate the analytical laboratory, but struggle to meet the unique challenges of the EM operation. This paper reviews the workflow typically found in EM operations to identify the needs of the EM organization. It matches the capabilities of commercial LIMS to these needs, and discusses the LIMS customizations that would be required to close these gaps. It also discusses two alternative approaches to building an interface between an EM-specific product, such as MODA-EM, and a commercial LIMS.
 Job Postings

5/31/2009 - Aggregated List of LIMS Jobs

The following is a real-time aggregated list of LIMS jobs pulled from job sites all over the Internet. The list is kept up to date in nearly real time.

05/31/2009 - LIMS / LIS & Laboratory Careers

LIMSfinder.com is pleased to announce an improved job board that combines both LIMS and Laboratory Career opportunities. The service is free for our member sponsors and all job seekers. The new job board offers a job search feature and allows for posting of Featured Jobs for less than $1 per day. Candidates can also subscribe to our weekly newsletter that highlights all of the Featured and Sponsored job openings.
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