Informatics

CliniSys has acquired Horizon Lab Systems and combined with Sunquest Information Systems, to create an organisation dedicated to diagnostic and laboratory informatics.  Outlook  CliniSys’ vision is to embrace a new wave of digital diagnostics and laboratories across the continuum of care and community to improve public health.  Horizon Lab Systems is critical to this vision with its cloud-based […]

PerkinElmer has launched the Signals Research Suite, a secure informatics platform deployed on Amazon Web Services which provides scientific data and workflow management for pharmaceutical and industrial customers.   Designed to help drive more informed and accelerated decision-making around drug, compound and formulation candidates, the offering brings together PerkinElmer’s informatics technologies across data access, processing, enhanced […]

European Pharmacopoeia (Ph. Eur.) General Chapter 2.1.7 Balances for Analytical Purposes was published in July 2021. Compliance with this chapter by January 1, 2022 is mandatory for any pharmaceutical company who manufactures in, or exports into, the European market.   Balances for Analytical Purposes aims to ensure quality control of medicines in European member states. The requirements of Ph. Eur. are similar […]

Vaccination is the most effective method of preventing infectious diseases, and is considered one of the greatest achievements in medicine. Until today, various vaccines against several crucial diseases (including influenza, chicken pox, or HPV) have been developed that save millions of lives. Along the continuous emergence of new diseases and concerns regarding safety, vaccine research […]

Dotmatics, a scientific informatics software and services company, has been selected by Croda International to implement its research and development (R&D) digital program. This project will reportedly deepen Croda’s ability to innovate collaboratively, both internally and externally, delivering enhanced data science capability across the company’s global R&D knowledge base through the implementation of the Dotmatics’ electronic lab notebook […]

Listen to this article on the DDW Podcast: Dr Bongcho Kim is the new CEO of Macrogen Europe, a Netherlands-based provider of genomic sequencing services. Dr Kim’s appointment comes at a time of sustained growth for the company, which is benefitting from the rapidly expanding sequencing market. He talks to Lu Rahman and explains the important […]

Listen to this article on the DDW Podcast: Laura Marozsan, Scientific Marketing Specialist, Thermo Fisher Scientific, outlines the benefits  of automation in drug discovery. Automation plays a crucial role in modern drug discovery, enabling improvements in efficiency, standardisation, reproducibility and data integrity. An effective automated laboratory contains two main components, physical automation and a unified digital […]

Ahead of the return of CPhI North America, Informa Markets has commissioned an in-depth report into the US pharma market focusing on how the pandemic has affected public discourse and political priorities, and how it could alter the pharmaceutical supply paradigm in the medium term. Analysis from six leading US experts – following extensive interviews […]

You’re about to embark on a journey of discovery. And like all journeys that are worthwhile, it’s far from linear. The process of antibody discovery and development into a clinical candidate is one full of twists, turns, roundabouts, and offshoots, yet one that an increasing number of researchers and companies, both small and large, have […]

Biotechnology company PerkinElmer has announced its documentation, workflow and decision-making informatics platform, Signals, is expanding to build on existing capabilities in the biologics drug discovery space. This comes through a collaboration with Insightful Science, a software company serving the global life sciences community. With the collaboration, pharmaceutical and academic research teams can combine the power […]