From Argonne National Laboratory, a 2021 R&D 100 winner Manufacturing is a truly time-consuming and cost-intensive process. To optimize the design of a new product, manufacturers typically undergo round after round of experimental trials and iterative prototype evaluation. However, as the volume and complexity of data increases, industry leaders are increasingly turning to high-fidelity computer…
R&D 100 winner of the day: dGen
National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s dGen is an open-source software that simulates customer adoption of distributed energy resources (DERs) through 2050. dGen is used by government and grid planning organizations to predict future energy systems at high spatial resolution and under diverse scenarios. It is an engine for equitably and cost-effectively integrating more DERs. The opensource…
Mike McKee appointed as Dotmatics’ president to lead data-driven scientific research
Dotmatics, an Insightful Science company that provides scientific informatics software to drive the automation of lab data workflows and accelerate critical R&D discovery, announced the appointment of Mike McKee as its new President. McKee is an experienced CEO with a demonstrated history of leadership in the technology industry. In his role, McKee will continue to…
Lonza to present free webinar on how laboratories can maximize efficiency
On September 21, Lonza will host a free 30-minute webinar to discuss how quality control (QC) laboratories can maximize efficiency for reduced costs and time-to-results by combining Lonza’s MODA-EM Software and the Growth Direct System from Rapid Micro Biosystems. Webinar attendees will also have the chance to engage with the expert presenters in a live…
ENPICOM’s powerful liability prediction solution to de-risk antibody development
ENPICOM, a bioinformatics software company, announced at the Biologics UK conference new IGX Platform capabilities to accurately annotate exposed liabilities, perform structural modeling of antibodies at scale and determine developability profiles using customizable penalties. This major development allows researchers to improve their candidate selection by making accurate developability predictions for thousands of sequences at the…
Pathways to production
From Sandia National Laboratory Biologists at Sandia National Laboratories developed comprehensive software that will help scientists in a variety of industries create engineered chemicals more quickly and easily. Sandia is now looking to license the software for commercial use, researchers said. Sandia’s stand-alone software RetSynth uses a novel algorithm to sort through large, curated databases…
Dotmatics appoints Michael Swartz as a senior VP to support continued rapid growth
Dotmatics, an Insightful Science company and providers of the cloud-first platform for scientific research, announced it has appointed Michael Swartz to lead its Enterprise Product Strategy and Management functions. Dotmatics is an enterprise B2B software company serving the global scientific R&D industry and is backed by Insight Partners, a venture capital and private equity firm…
Thermo Fisher and ChromSword deliver HPLC and UHPLC method development system
Thermo Fisher Scientific and ChromSword, a provider of innovative software products, have collaborated to launch an automated high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) and ultra-high performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC) method development system that enables chromatographers to deliver robust and validated methods in less time and with higher confidence. The new Thermo Scientific Vanquish Method Development HPLC…
DOE provides $28M to advance scientific discovery using supercomputers
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announces $28 million in funding for five research projects to develop software that will fully unleash the potential of DOE supercomputers to make new leaps in fields such as quantum information science and chemical reactions for clean energy applications. “DOE’s national labs are home to some of the world’s fastest…
Formedix and CDISC unite to provide free access to CDASH-Compliant eCRFs for accelerated clinical trial set-up
Formedix, a provider of clinical trial software solutions, has collaborated with CDISC, a clinical research data standards development organization, to create a novel portal providing free access to ready-to-use, CDASH-compliant, annotated electronic case report forms (eCRFs). As part of this partnership, Formedix’s innovative all-in-one cloud-based clinical metadata repository (CMDR) and study automation platform — ryze…
Aigenpulse launches CytoML 5.2: automated flow cytometry with unbiased analysis
Aigenpulse has released the latest version of CytoML Experiment Suite, its automated, end-to-end, machine-learning software designed to streamline and automate cytometry analysis at scale and replace manual gating processes. The latest release (v5.2) introduces new unbiased analysis features and an easy-to-use interface with no need for difficult installation or program scripting. Users can perform automated…
Formedix launches cloud-based clinical MDR and study automation platform to streamline clinical trial design and build
Formedix announces the launch of ryze, an innovative all-in-one cloud-based clinical metadata repository (MDR) and study automation platform. ryze has been specifically developed to accelerate and streamline the design, build and submission of clinical trials, in compliance with the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC) and NCI Controlled Terminology. As a fully integrated software suite,…
PerkinElmer expands Signals Informatics capabilities in biologics drug discovery
PerkinElmer announced this week its documentation, workflow and decision-making Signals informatics platform is being expanded to build on existing capabilities in the biologics drug discovery space. This comes through a collaboration with life science software company, Insightful Science. With the collaboration, pharmaceutical and academic research teams can bring together the power of the PerkinElmer Signals…
Insightful Science acquires Dotmatics
Life sciences software company Insightful Science announced today that it has acquired Dotmatics, a cloud-based scientific R&D data management platform. By integrating Insightful Science’s software applications into Dotmatics cloud-first enterprise data management solution, the company will provide an end-to-end scientific research platform. This combination further improves laboratory efficiency and accelerates the pace of scientific innovation…
PerkinElmer further expands signals informatics capabilities in biologics drug discovery
PerkinElmer today announced its documentation, workflow and decision making Signals informatics platform is being expanded to build on existing capabilities in the biologics drug discovery space. This comes through a collaboration with Insightful Science, a software company serving the global life sciences community. With the collaboration, pharmaceutical and academic research teams can bring together the…
EUROIMMUN launches novel ultrafast automated microscope and intelligent software for state-of-the-art diagnostics
EUROIMMUN, a PerkinElmer company, today announced the launch of the EUROPattern Microscope Live (EPML) compact immunofluorescence microscope, available with the fourth generation of the Company’s well-established EUROLabOffice 4.0 (ELO 4.0) laboratory management software. The combined system of hardware and software allows for ultrafast automated immunofluorescence image acquisition, pattern recognition and titer estimation as well as…
R&D 100 winner of the day: CURENT Large Scale Testbed (LTB)
The CURENT Large Scale Testbed (LTB), from CURENT Research Center, is the first of its kind to provide a virtual electric power grid for researchers to experiment with closed-loop controls and algorithms. Research and application ideas can be quickly and seamlessly integrated for verification in this virtual power system. Without CURENT LTB, researchers have to…
R&D 100 winner of the day: Regional Energy Deployment System 2.0
As a state-of-the-art capacity expansion planning model, Regional Energy Deployment System (ReEDS) 2.0 provides unprecedented insight into how policy, economic, technology and regulatory variables will shape the transformation of the sector through 2050. ReEDS 2.0 empowers more users to make better-informed decisions that are pivotal to power system optimization because: It is freely available; has…
LF Energy partners with Sony Computer Science Laboratories to launch opensource microgrid project
LF Energy, a Linux Foundation nonprofit seeking to accelerate the energy transition of the world’s grids and transportation systems through open source, along with its newest member, Sony Computer Science Laboratories (Sony CSL), a subsidiary of Sony Corporation, announced today Hyphae, a microgrid initiative to automate the peer-to-peer distribution of renewable energy. With energy resources and infrastructure…
R&D 100 winner of the day: Keylime
Keylime, developed by MIT Lincoln Laboratory, is a free, open-source key bootstrapping and integrity management software architecture designed to increase the security and privacy of Edge/Cloud and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. Keylime enables users to securely bootstrap secrets (e.g., cryptographic keys, passwords and certificates) without divulging them unnecessarily and to continuously verify trust in…
R&D 100 winner of the day: nanoHUB: Making simulation and data pervasive
In 2002, nanoHUB offered online simulations to a small group of friendly users. Since then it has grown to 18,000 users per year, connecting research grade software, data science tools and data repositories to their end users: domain experts, instructors and student. nanoHUB, from Purdue University, accelerates innovation by making scientific software and associated data…
R&D winner of the day: Production Decision Support System (PDSS) with Digital Twins Solution for Bicycle Industry
The Production Decision Support System (PDSS) with Digital Twins Solution for Bicycle Industry is a quality inspection system for Taiwan’s bicycle industry developed by the Institute for Information Industry. Driven by a digital twin quality decision support system, it is slated to help Taiwan return to its bicycle A-team glory days and push forward the…
R&D 100 winner of the day: Tracktable
Previous methods for analyzing trajectories were focused on complex one-to-one geometric comparisons using curve alignment. This limited both the type and number of trajectories that could be analyzed. Sandia National Laboratory developed, Tracktable’s patented representation techniques dramatically increase this limit from hours or days of data to many years. This enables analysis of patterns of…
R&D 100 winner of the day: TIDE (Threat Identification, Determination and Evaluation)
TIDE (Threat Identification, Determination and Evaluation), developed by Argonne National Laboratory, is the most comprehensive, generally applicable and thoroughly vetted facility threat assessment tool available today. TIDE provides security professionals with a more effective, efficient and cost-effective way to evaluate threats to facilities, and to identify threat-specific mitigation options. Moreover, TIDE provides a more customized,…
R&D 100 winner of the day: Amanzi–ATS: Modeling environmental systems across scales
Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Amanzi–ATS is a powerful and agile simulation tool for comprehensive environmental system analyses. Offering the most exhaustive suite of surface/subsurface processes, Amanzi–ATS is built on a flexible infrastructure that allows users to choose physical processes and their coupling without rewriting software. New physics can be incorporated into Amanzi–ATS in a fraction…