Sponsors

ArtusLabs
Website: www.artuslabs.com.

ArtusLabs is a technology company which is delivering scientific data management software and services designed to enhance workplace collaboration and accelerate the rate of drug discovery. ArtusLabs was founded by the same proven team that formed Synthematix, the start-up that pioneered the Enterprise Electronic Lab Notebook marketplace. This leadership team has extensive expertise in processing, mining and managing complex scientific data and information generated from research activities. The company’s flagship product, Ensemble for Life Science, is a unique software solution for organizing data. It blends social networking, personal publication, and refined data mining to both internal and external research communication and management.For more information visit www.artuslabs.com.

NEXUS Biosystems
Website: www.nexusbio.com/

NEXUS Biosystems, develops automation systems for pharmaceutical, biotech, and research institutions worldwide. Products include the Universal Store® family of sample storage and retrieval systems, the Crystal Farm® line of protein crystallization systems, the IRORI® line of chemical synthesis technologies and services, and in No. America and Asia NEXUS is a distributor of the Covaris™ line of ultrasonic products

Computype
Website: www.computype.com

Computype specializes in unique identification of labware via bar code technology. We provide variable bar code labels, on-demand printing systems, bar code scanners, software and print/apply label applicators for slides, tubes, vials, and microwell plates. Our customized Label Morphor II provides on-demand printing without a PC.

Titian Software
Website: www.titian.co.uk

Titian Software (www.titian.co.uk) is the industry leader in the supply of software and consultancy services that allow clients to accurately and efficiently manage their samples in Life Science organizations. Founded in 1999, Titian has offices located in London and the Boston area with six of the top twenty biopharma companies currently utilizing its MosaicTM sample management software suite. Using Titian’s products and services provides significant customer benefit in terms of increased quality, service levels, throughput, and sample conservation while reducing error rates, operational costs and initial and on-going IT resource.

The Automation Partnership (TAP)
Website: www.automationpartnership.com

The Automation Partnership (TAP) designs and develops innovative advanced automation systems for compound storage, biological sample management and cell culture applications.

This year TAP will be showcasing the new high throughput nano litre plate production system Coda™ and the latest version of the Concerto™ global inventory management software. Email Info@automationpartnership.com

RTS

One of the pioneers in automated compound storage, RTS is building on over 25 years of experience providing sample management products, solutions and software to meet the needs of today’s pharmaceutical, biotech and biobanking organisations. Offering a range of products to satisfy small to large scale requirements, storage temperatures from -80 to ambient and flexible, multi-format storage options RTS has provided not only the fastest store in the world but also, systems to 8 out of the top 10 pharma. To learn more about ‘RTS’ Sample Management You Can Count On’ visit the booth, phone +44 (0)161 777 2000 or email lifescience.info@rts-group.com

CambridgeSoft
Website: www.cambridgesoft.com

CambridgeSoft develops, markets and services life science enterprise solutions for pharmaceutical, biotechnology, chemical companies and academic research organizations. Software products include enterprise, workgroup and desktop versions of Chem & Bio Office, including Chem & Bio Draw, with knowledge management (Chemistry, Biology, Process and Manufacturing E-Notebook & Compliant DB), chemical and biological informatics (Inventory, BioAssay, Registration & Workflow LIMS), and scientific database (ChemBioFinder Gateway, The Merck Index, ChemACX) solutions.

Labcyte
Website: www.labcyte.com

We move liquids with sound! Labcyte Inc. award-winning products are powered by acoustic droplet ejection, using sound energy to transfer low volumes of liquids. This 'touchless' technology provides dramatically better results by eliminating pipette tips and the adsorption of compounds on their surfaces during transfer, while saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in decreased consumables. Accuracy is maintained from the first drop through the last for a wide variety of fluids including many considered intractable by other techniques. The technology is coupled with our Deerac instruments to make Labcyte a leader in miniaturizing biological assays.

BioFocus DPI
Website: www.biofocusdpi.com

BioFocus DPI provides compound management services at its South San Francisco (USA) site, home to the National Institutes of Health Molecular Libraries Small Molecule Repository. BioFocus DPI offers the following compound management services: compound identification, selection, sourcing, analysis, storage, plating and reformatting, purification, and distribution. It employs state of the art equipment and compound handling techniques to ensure sample integrity. Customers include the government institutes NIH and Environmental Protection Agency as well as a number of biotech and pharmaceutical companies.

REMP
Website: www.remp.com

REMP, a Tecan Group Company, is a global leader supplying automated storage and retrieval systems for sample management in the Life Science industries. Solutions include systems, devices, consumables and software applications for sample management and biorepository applications. REMP was the first worldwide supplier to successfully install a large scale, fully automated biorepository operating at −80°C and −20°C, concurrently. The REMP Bio-Sample Store can be used for a wide range of research applications and is an example of a new generation of sample storage solutions. Founded in 1986, REMP has over 140 employees worldwide and is a Tecan Group company.