Entry Process Now Closed View Our 2009 Contestants! Accelrys 10188 Telesis Court rbrown@accelrys.com Product Name & Description Accelrys' chemistry-centric List Management and Query Services system (LMQS) enables rapid searching of different data sources that utilize a variety of database search engines and schemas. Results can be automatically organized into lists that can be manipulated within Pipeline Pilot, enabling users to reuse, share, report and analyze their data. Almac 19 Seagoe Industrial Estate, Craigavon, UK. austin.tanney@almacgroup.com Product Name & Description The Ovarian Cancer DSA(TM) research tool is the first high-density disease focused transcriptome based microarray for the study of ovarian. With ~100,000 transcripts derived from ovarian tissue, the Ovarian cancer DSA(TM) research tool represents the most complete tool available for the study of ovarian cancer. AnaSpec 2149 O'Toole Ave. San Jose, CA 95131 vera@anaspec.com Product Name & Description SensoLyte 520 HDAC Activity Assay Histone deacetylase (HDAC) enzymes act as transcriptional repressors of genes through histones deacetylation. The SensoLyte 520 HDAC Activity Assay is a convenient, homogeneous procedure for measuring enzyme activity from various sources. The high detection wavelengths (Ex/Em=490/520 nm) of the HDAC 520 substrate provide less interference from compounds and cell components. ClearPoint Peptides Spiking protein tryptic digests with internal heavy isotope labeled peptide standards, Mass Spectrometry becomes an absolute quantitation (AQUA) method. With a choice of heavy hydrogen (2H), carbon (13C), or nitrogen (15N)-isotopes specifically labeled at single, multiple or universal positions, ClearPoint™ peptides are an ideal solution for absolute protein quantitation. ArtusLabs, Inc. 4220 Hwy 55, Suite 160 Durham, NC 27713 kate.blanchard@artuslabs.com Product Name & Description Ensemble for Life Science blends social networking, collaboration, and refined scientific data mining to assist internal and external research communication and management. It saves time and money throughout the discovery process. Ensemble brings the best of Web 2.0 technologies inside a private and secure business network. Bioalma Ronda de Poniente 4, BajoC vvivier@bioalma.com Product Name & Description Novo|seek is a dynamic information extraction system for searching the published knowledge in biomedical literature. It indexes the biomedical literature with text mining technology built by Bioalma that identifies key biomedical terms taking into account external available data and contextual term information. http://www.novoseek.com/ BIOCRATES Life Sciences AG Innrain 66, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria brad.morie@biocrates.com Product Name & Description The AbsoluteIDQT Kit enables quick, accurate detection and quantification of over 160 metabolites from four classes from only 10 microliters of plasma. Customers can now build a comprehensive picture of the metabolic state of humans or animals without the need to purchase hundreds of expensive standards or run numerous assays. BioFortis Inc. 9017 Red Branch Road, Columbia, MD 21045 bhughes@biofortis.com Product Name & Description Labmatrix™ is a web-based software application for management of clinical, specimen and molecular assay data. With the ability to integrate these data sets in a tightly linked, highly annotated manner, Labmatrix™ is being used by multiple customers in the biopharmaceutical industry, academic and government research institutes for biomarker discovery, biobanking and translational clinical and genetic research. Cell Biosciences 1050 Page Mill Road Palo Alto, CA 94304 jkeefe@cellbiosciences.com Product Name & Description Cell Biosciences, Inc. announced the launch of its first kits for the analysis of specific oncoproteins on the Firefly 3000 Protein Analysis System. The new kits are optimized for characterization of proteins in the MEK and ERK families, which play critical roles in cancer cell survival and proliferation. Crown Bioscience 4008 Burton Drive, Santa Clara CA 95054 lsailor@crownbio.com Product Name & Description Available for compound testing, the HuPrime(tm) platform is a unique collection of over 600+ primary patient derived tumors that predict correctly drug sensitivity and resistance of patients in the clinic. These HuPrime (tm) xenografts retain parental patient tumors characteristics including histology and sensitivity to anticancer drugs helping your program to prioritize lead compounds,narrow down possible disease indications, and identify biomarkers to stratify patient populations in clinical trials. GenoLogics – Booth 7 4464 Markham Street, Suite 2302 Victoria, BC, Canada, V8Z 7X8 james.degreef@genologics.com Product Name & Description GenoLogics biomedical informatics solution is designed to track observational studies, collect patient data at remote sites, provide biorepository specimen and clinical annotations management, and facilitate researchers querying clinical information and requesting samples. GenoLogics is taking an integrated solutions approach versus building a one sized fits all, feature laden biobanking product. Company URL: http://www.genologics.com/biorepository GenVault Corporation 6190 Corte Del edro, Carlsbad, CA 92011 rnunez@genvault.com Product Name & Description GenTegra DNA is a proprietary inorganic matrix with built-in oxidative protection and antimicrobial activity for dry, room temperature transport and storage of purified DNA. It is provided in ready to use aliquots. Purified DNA dried within GenTegra DNA is simply and fully resolubilized with water for direct downstream molecular analysis. Ingenuity Systems 1700 Seaport Blvd., 3rd Floor mgrossman@ingenuity.com Product Name & Description Now you can rapidly narrow in on analysis and search results most relevant to your experimental model using the sophisticated Contextual Data Analysis capabilities in IPA. Cell, tissue, and species filters that leverage the highly structured content in IPA, help you easily discover the information that is most useful for uncovering novel insights about your biological system. Luxcel Biosciences Ltd Biotransfer Unit, UCC, Cork, Ireland fklok@luxcel.com Product Name & Description The Luxcel Metabolic Toolkit is the first assay kit to allow highly detailed metabolic analysis on a plate-reader. Researchers can now easily measure mitochondrial (dys)function, glycolytoc flux and fluctuations of intracellular oxygen all from a single kit employing novel luminescence-based oxygen and pH sensitive reagents, standard microtitre plates and readers. MO BIO Laboratories 2746 Loker Avenue West, CA 92010 mbrolaski@mobio.com Product Name & Description The BiOstic™ Bacteremia DNA Isolation Kit extracts bacterial DNA from 1.8 ml of cultured blood using the BacT/Alert® media using a fast mini-spin filter format. Patented Inhibitor Removal Technology eliminates enzymatic inhibitors in culture medium and blood, allowing for maximal detection sensitivity in real-time and multiplex PCR genotyping assays. Peakdale Molecular Ltd Peakdale Science Park, Sheffield Road, Chapel-en-le-Frith, High Peak, SK23 0PG, UK enquiries@peakdale.co.uk Product Name & Description The AssayReady4U™ storefront is being developed to meet the needs of smaller drug research groups that do not want to build their own assets to store, handle and plate compounds, but that want to design and receive ready-to-screen assays from a high-quality collection in the format they need to target their drug discovery work. Plectix BioSystems, Inc. 20 Holland Street, Suite 400, Somerville, MA 02144 traci@plectix.com Product Name & Description Cellucidate is a new approach to cell signaling research that provides scientists with a workspace for simulating and exploring the causal and dynamic activity within the cell. This powerful web-based platform enables researchers to generate and test hypotheses, collaborate and benefit from shared research, and publish their own work. Rosetta Biosoftware 401 Terry Avenue North lisa_owen@rosettabio.com Product Name & Description The Syllego system is a genomics data management and analysis solution in which users can store and manage data produced by a variety of different platforms from public and proprietary databases, conduct data analysis with industry standard tool suites, share analysis results, and report findings to colleagues. Seahorse Bioscience, Inc. 16 Esquire Road, Billerica MA 01862 cegan@seahorsebio.com Product Name & Description The Seahorse XF96 Analyzer is the first analytical instrument for the kinetic measurement of mitochondrial oxygen consumption and cytoplasmic glycolysis in a 96-well microplate. The easy-to-use instrument assays cells in minutes, using a label-free, non-destructive method. Measure mitochondrial function in primary cells, adherent cells, tumor and suspension cells and isolated mitochondria. Shiloh Laboratories 4502 Midmoor Road, Monona, WI 53716 ceo@shilohlabs.com Product Name & Description Shiloh Laboratories introduces ProSenTM, a chemically-defined, fully human stem cell media supplement, enhances the growth of pluripotent stem cells in feeder-free culture. The ProSenTM supplement increases plating efficiency while preserving pluripotency and normal karyotypes. ProSenTM supplement-media need only be changed every third or fourth day to maintain robust cell growth. SimBioSys, Inc – Booth 419 135 Queen's Plate Drive Univ 520 Toronto, ON, M9W aniko@simbiosys.ca Product Name & Description eHiTS 2009 is a significantly improved version of SimBioSys' fragment-based docking software, with a new knowledge-based scoring function, leveraging information encapsulated in thousands of latest PDB structures. eHiTS achieves outstanding performance in pose prediction, enrichment, and binding affinity prediction, combined with 20x speedup on Cell/Broadband Engine platforms. Company URL: http://www.simbiosys.ca/ STEMSOFT Software Inc. 401-570 W 7th Avenue, Vancoouver, BC Canada V5Z 1B3 nicole.waidman@stemsoft.com Product Name & Description StemLabT is the only complete laboratory manufacturing software solution developed exclusively for cellular therapy. Designed by STEMSOFT Software Inc, StemLabT is built to ensure quality and regulatory compliance standards are met by establishing procedural protocols, monitoring manufacturing processes, providing ISBT128 identifiers, and documenting lot-to-lot traceability. ThalesNano, Inc. Zahony utca 7., Budapest, HUNGARY flowchemistry@thalesnano.com Product Name & Description X-Cube Flash™ is a continuous-flow reactor capable of performing homogeneous reactions at high pressure and temperature up to 200 bar and 350°C respectively. Utilizing these conditions, reactions can be performed under supercritical conditions. This technology provides and exceeds all the temperature advantages of microwave, adding the benefit of scalability. Thermo Scientific/Open Biosystems Products 601 Genome Way, Suite 2100, Huntsville, AL 35806 nicole.poore@thermofisher.com Product Name & Description: Thermo Scientific Decode™ RNAi viral screening libraries combine the advantages of leading-edge shRNAmir design, the power of lentiviral delivery and the convenience of ready-to-use pooled viral particles to facilitate multiplexed RNAi screening. The high titer lentiviral pool format enables cost-effective genome-scale RNAi screens in a broad range of cell types. Thomson Reuters 77 Hatton Garden, London EC1N8JS, UK colin.williams@thomsonreuters.com Product Name & Description BIOMARKERcenter is a manually-curated information solution that indexes research on thousands of new and established biomarkers. Updated daily, it gathers in one place information from diverse, often inaccessible sources, providing pivotal insight across therapeutic areas and supporting stage gate decisions in drug research and development. TriLink BioTechnologies, Inc. 9955 Mesa Rim San Diego CA 92121 Product Name & Description TriLink is pleased to introduce CleanAmpTM dNTPs, the newest addition to our line of PCR enhancing products. CleanAmpTM dNTPs reduce primer dimer and mis-priming effects, while offering a significant savings over Hot Start enzyme approaches. Reduce your cost per reaction up to 50%, while obtaining improved PCR performance. Visit www.trilinkbiotech.com/cleanamp to learn more today.