IDBS Acquires InforSense to Provide End-to-End Solutions for R&D Data Management
InforSense’s data integration technologies will complement IDBS’ suite of secure, context-rich data management solutions.

TranSenda and Harvard Clinical Research Institute Announce Office-Smart Deployment
Deployment of a clinical trial software solution for HCRI expands the products and services already under contract between the two parties.

Hamner Institutes and UNC Launch International Drug Safety Institute
Scientific collaboration aims at improving drug safety and advancing drug development.

PharmaSURVEYOR's Advanced Drug Safety Service Connects to Microsoft HealthVault
Personalized drug assessment tool allows members to identify, diagnose and resolve drug side effects and interactions.

Reactome - a knowledgebase of human biological pathways
European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), Cambridge, United Kingdom; Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, USA; NYU School of Medicine, New York, USA; OICR Toronto, Canada

Reactome is a manually curated knowledgebase, created and peer-reviewed by experts in their field. Its robust data model describes life processes ranging from metabolism to signal transduction and the cell cycle. As of release 28, Reactome contains 3700 human proteins in 3200 reactions. Data is cross-referenced to publicly available web-based informatics resources. Reactome features the SkyPainter tool for analysis of high-throughput datasets, and the Mart query and data retrieval tool.

Adaptive mixture filtering: an alternative to particle filtering?
Duke University

This poster presents adaptive mixture filtering, an improvement on Gaussian sum filters, as an alternative to particle systems for filtering in state-space models.

Senior Director ADME
The RSA Group
Hatfield, Herts, UK

Mass Spectometry Scientist
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Buffalo, NY, USA

Principal HTS Scientist
St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital
Memphis, TN, USA


Target Discovery World Congress, South San Francisco, CA, USA
04 August 2009 - 05 August 2009

Target Discovery World Congress will be a meeting focusing on the research looking to find new potential drugs for development. The topics will include presentations on the latest in screening platforms and new methods such as those in High Content and Label-Free Screening and will also focus on the work being done looking for new drug targets in some of the major protein families including Ion Channels, GPCRs, Protein Kinases, Nuclear Receptors and the Ubiquitin Pathway.

Advances in qPCR, Berlin Germany
17 September 2009 - 18 September 2009

Advances in qPCR will cover the latest techniques in this difficult subject and presentations from expert users in this field. There are also training courses available the day before the conference which will introduce new researchers to this field and give trouble shooting tips to those currently using this technique.
  


Protein Arrays: An Attractive Approach for the Simultaneous Measurement of Many Protein/Small Molecule Binding Events in Small Sample Volumes

Marcella Chiari, Istituto di Chimica del Riconoscimento Molecolare Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, speaking at Screeninig Europe 2009


Towards a Database of Breast Cancer Proteomics: Proteome Profiling of Human Breast Cancer Showed Unique Pattern of Protein Expression and Phosphorylation

Serhiy Souchelnytskyi, Associate Professor, Head of Laboratory, Karolinska University Hospital, speaking at Proteomics Europe 2007