Cellular Dynamics International and Roche Expand Existing Cardiotoxicity Screening Agreement
The two-year collaboration aims to enhance drug safety testing in order to bring promising therapies to patients.

Evotec Strengthens its Ion Channel Capabilities to Support new Alliances
Addition of ion channel focused library and additional electrophysiology equipment to support ion channel screening and medicinal chemistry alliances.

Increased Demand Drives Queensland Compound Library Expansion
QCL capacity is increased by the acquisition of an additional comPOUND® storage module.

Cenix BioScience Expands Relationship with AstraZeneca, Signing Multi-Project Research Agreement
The new agreement calls for Cenix to complete three major projects applying same platform for RNAi-based research.

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.

A Web Interface for Automatic Microarray Analysis
Nottingham University

DNA-Microarray technology provides a diagnostic tool for studying cancer and genetic diseases, allowing the experimenter to identify disease related genes and predict the tumour type for new cell samples. However, the statistical analysis of microarray data is a time-consuming and error-prone process. To address this problem we have developed a web interface for automatic DNA-microarray analysis, ArrayMining.net, which guides the user through the analysis process and performs automatic parameter

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.

Lab-on-a-Chip World Congress, South San Francisco, CA, USA
06 August 2009 - 07 August 2009

Welcome to the Lab-on-a-Chip World Congress, designed to review existing and new life science applications of microfluidic technologies. This year's event will take place at the South San Francisco Conference Center.

Molecular Diagnostics World Congress, South San Franscisco, CA, USA
06 August 2009 - 07 August 2009

Welcome to the 2nd Molecular Diagnostics World Congress, this year's event will take place at the South San Francisco Conference Center.
  


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


Chemogenomics: Medicinal Chemistry Meets Pharmacology at a Genome Scale

Jordi Mestres, Head Chemogenomics Lab, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, speaking at Screening Europe 2009


SOSA and Parallel in silico Screening: Merging Medicinal Chemistry Tradition with a Modern Computational Approach

Thierry Langer, CEO, Prestwick Chemicals, speaking at MedChem Europe 2009

TR-FRET Based Assay Trends 2007
Published December 2007

This market report summarizes the results of HTStec’s global pharma and biotech web-based benchmarking survey on TR-FRET based assays and reagents carried out in December 2007.

The study was initiated to comprehensively document current practices, requirements and future trends for TR-FRET based assay reagent technologies. The questions were aimed at providing vendors with updated information on the use of theses assays and direction as to where they should focus their future R & D efforts o