May New Products
May 31, 2016 New products from around the bio-IT and clinical-IT community.
Bioclinica has introduced OnPoint Direct, a Clinical Trial Management System (CTMS) geared toward mid-market biopharma and Contract Research Organizations (CROs). OnPoint Direct offers a cost-friendly pricing structure that empowers organizations to adopt a full-featured clinical trial management solution without complex configuration, high capital investment, or perpetual licensing models. OnPoint Direct is an out-of-the-box solution that shares all of the same core functionality as the original OnPoint, but with streamlined configuration, slashing ramp-up time and investment. The SaaS-based offering is delivered through Bioclinica’s secure eHealth Cloud, which leverages the Bioclinica Cloud Transformation Gateway, a secure standards-based integration exchange that connects its eClinical Platform to innovative third-party applications and industry data banks. Press release.
Stand Up To Cancer (SU2C) and Genentech have announced their latest collaboration: "Be the Breakthrough", a multi-faceted campaign focused on educating Americans on how they can each play a role in the fight against cancer, including screening and participating in clinical trials. "Be The Breakthrough" will work to raise awareness among the public about the important role regular screenings and participation in clinical trials play in fighting cancer and also celebrate the individuals who have made major contributions to the field. Press release.
Janssen Research and Development has signed an agreement to license Optibrium’s StarDrop software. The agreement will provide a global licence for StarDrop and eight of StarDrop’s optional plug-in modules. StarDrop is a software suite that helps researchers deliver optimally balanced, successful compounds. It brings confidence and intuitive simplicity to decision making; guiding and validating the direction taken by project teams and which compounds are prioritized. StarDrop works by evaluating project teams’ complex data, which is often uncertain because of experimental variability or predictive error. Its interactive tools then enable researchers to efficiently explore ways to further improve their chosen compounds. StarDrop's core features can also be extended with a range of optional plug-in modules that provide comprehensive capabilities for compound optimisation, including: Predictive models for ADME properties, P450 metabolism and toxicity; automatic QSAR model building; 3D structure-activity relationships; and de novo design to stimulate the search for new optimisation strategies. Press release.
10x Genomics has globally released the Chromium System, the genome sequencing platform the company announced in February. Chromium is built upon the foundation of the original 10x GemCode technology with the vision of delivering researchers and clinicians the power of Linked-Read data and seamless integration into their pre-existing sequencing technologies. Press release.
DataDirect Networks (DDN) has announced DDN Flashscale, a new family of all-flash scale-out and scale-up storage solutions, which delivers the highest performance and capacity in a cost-optimized and feature-rich platform designed for Enterprise Big Data and Analytics, Web Scale Cloud, and HPC environments. Flashscale concurrently delivers extreme levels of IOPS (6 million) and throughput (60GB/s) in just 4U, with up to 60 million IOPS and 600 GB/s in a single rack; leverages the latest NVMe and SAS or a mix of both SSDs in a high density hyperconverged, shared storage architecture (up to 576TB in 4U and 7.3 Petabytes in one rack); and delivers latencies as low as 100μs for superfast embedded application speeds thanks to its specially designed internal PCIe Gen3 fabric. The price point can be as low as $1/GB. Press release.
Bracket has released a new suite of mobile applications to support pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies running clinical trials. Bracket Patient Diary, Bracket RTSM, and Bracket Analytics are now available for download from iTunes and Google Play. Bracket Patient Diary is a native, downloadable app for patients participating in clinical trials that allows for patients to report symptoms and complete diaries using a secure app installed on their own smartphone. Bracket RTSM is a native app for managing clinical supplies and randomization in clinical trials. Bracket Analytics is a stand-alone tool that gives study managers and sponsors a dashboard of their clinical trial progress. Press release.
BT has launched Cyber Roadmap Consulting, a new consultancy program designed to give large organizations a better understanding of their own cyber security risks and implement measures to mitigate these. The new service leverages highly skilled consultants from BT’s global security consulting team to work with customers all over the world and identify risks in existing systems and processes. Consultants can recommend improvements to customers’ business priorities and their specific ICT context. All advice is underpinned by BT’s comprehensive portfolio of security products and services that takes a holistic view of a customer’s security environment. Press release.
Johnson & Johnson Innovation’s life science startup incubator, JLABS, has opening its first site outside of the United States, JLABS @ Toronto. Building on the success of the JLABS model in the United States, the 40,000 sq. ft. JLABS @ Toronto site can house up to 50 startups across the consumer health, pharmaceutical, medical device, diagnostic and digital health sectors and will feature a device and digital prototype lab. JLABS is currently home to more than 120 companies across its five U.S. sites. With this site in Toronto, it brings JLABS’ total capacity to over 225 companies. Press release.
The Genome Analysis Centre (TGAC) now has the world’s largest SGI UV 300 installation for Life Sciences, with one of the largest Intel SSD for PCIe deployments worldwide. Thes new TGAC platform comprises two SGI UV 300 systems totalling 24 terabytes (TB) of shared-memory, 512 Intel Xeon Processor E7 v3 cores and 64TB of Intel P3700 SSDs with NVMe storage technology. Each SGI UV 300 flash memory solution features 12TB of shared memory with 7th generation SGI NUMAlink ASIC technology, scaling up to 64 TB of global addressable memory as a single system. Paired with flash storage, the combined 24TB SGI UV 300 supercomputers can increase processing speeds of heavy workloads in scientific research by 80%. Press release.
Foxit Software’s Foxit PhantomPDF has been certified compliant with the SAFE-BioPharma global digital identity standard. Compliance with the SAFE-BioPharma standard provides the strongest proof of the identity of the person who applied a digital signature to a submission to government regulators. PhantomPDF is a full-featured, business-ready PDF solution that includes viewing, creation, editing, commenting, sharing, security, organization, exporting, OCR, security, form creation, and digital signature features. The flagship PhantomPDF Business edition offers an extensive range of usability and power features that meet the requirements of individual users, small businesses, and large enterprises. Press release.
Veeva Systems announced two new products: Veeva Vault QMS replaces disparate, on-premise systems to manage global quality processes across an organization, including external partners; and Veeva Network Product Master provides a cloud-based, flexible, global view of product information. The new Vault QMS application incorporates external stakeholders into the full spectrum of quality processes, including deviations, lab investigations, complaints, internal and external audits, corrective and preventive actions, and change control. This reduces compliance risks and eliminates bottlenecks in bringing drugs and treatments to market. Veeva Network Product Master helps enterprise teams manage, use, and access accurate product information across geographies. Vault QMS press release. Network Product Mater press release.