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CambridgeSoft's Business Partner in Kochi, India is hiring for multiple positions. If you know any appropriate candidates, with a chemistry or biochemistry background. The following is a list of available positions: Team Lead - coordinating the activities of small software development teams: http://www.cambridgesoft.com/careers/details/?Career=115 3D Team Leader : http://www.cambridgesoft.com/careers/details/?Career=228 Developer - Network Communications and Distributed Computing : http://www.cambridgesoft.com/careers/details/?Career=230 Developer Numerical Methods: http://www.cambridgesoft.com/careers/details/?Career=234 Senior Lead Developer : http://www.cambridgesoft.com/careers/details/?Career=225 Scientific Software Developer C++ : http://www.cambridgesoft.com/careers/details/?Career=14 Lead Developer E-Notebook : http://www.cambridgesoft.com/careers/details/?Career=81 E-Notebook Enterprise Support Analyst : http://www.cambridgesoft.com/careers/de...

There's a great deal of wisdom in a crowd, but how do you listen to a thousand people talking at once? Identifying the wants, needs, and knowledge of internet users can be like listening to a mob. In the Web 2.0 era, leveraging the collective power of user contributions, interactions, and feedback is the key to market dominance. A new category of powerful programs and web based technology lets you discover the patterns, inter-relationships, and individual profiles-the collective intelligence, locked in the data people leave behind as they surf websites, post blogs, and interact with other users. XTractor Premium is one such initiative, epitome of Collective Intelligence in Action for bio medical data. Implemens collective intelligence concepts of vital data gathering and mining techniques like analyzing trends, discovering relationships, and making predictions. It provides a pragmatic approach to personalization by combining content-based analysis with collaborative approaches ...

Industry response to the H1N1 pandemic suggests that cell culture vaccine production is about to come of age with two firms that use the technique, Novartis and Baxter, claiming it will cut development and manufacturing timelines by months. Margaret Chan officially declared the pandemic explaining that H1N1 infections worldwide can no longer be traced and that “ further spread is considered inevitable .” She asked drugmakers to begin preparing for large-scale H1N1 vaccine production when manufacture of seasonal stocks is completed, prompting a flurry of industry updates from vaccine producers. Baxter and Novartis aim for early availability The most eye-catching of these responses came from US drugmaker Baxter which announced it has completed testing of its Celvapan H1N1 vaccine and is “ now in full-scale production ,” and is working to deliver it as early as next month. Traditionally, seasonal influenza vaccines are mass produced using the albumin found in fertilised hens eggs a...

A not very long time ago, in a galaxy near, very near by.... SEARCH WARS Search, Search engines, While the Search engine big wigs fight for a niche in the search engines landscape .... The Google , Yahoo & now Micorsoft too (with their Bing ) There are the Wolfram | Alpha likes that are forming a separatist and slowly gaining power over the Google order. In fact google has managed to bring balance to both with its Google Squared . While platforms like XTractor , NextBio , Novoseek , GoPubMed , BioMedSearch have specialized in searching biomedical and biological knowledge are even more strengthening the separatists. Now to see and know who is more powerful, the galactic empire or the separatist? I leave it to the 'Republic' i.e. You users! to judge, in the form of your comments and experiences with such tools and searches! you could even voice your opinions here

Here is a wonderful article i came across recently: How to Use These Applications to Make Your Company Recession-Resistant , By Daniel Burrus . Most people are familiar with the term "Web 2.0," which refers to a second generation of web development and design that focuses on fostering social networking via the web. Innovative companies are beginning to embrace Web 2.0 as a way to enhance communication, information sharing, and collaboration, thereby allowing them to work smarter rather than harder. The business use of Web 2.0 represents a new trend called "Business 2.0." Aside from being the name of a defunct magazine, Business 2.0 is about using the new web-based social networking applications (many of which were originally created for personal use) in a way that fosters teamwork, customer touches, and internal and external collaboration in a low-cos...

Integrated Genomics gets $250K from Wisconsin State Wisconsin will provide $250,000 to Integrated Genomics through a combination of a loan and a grant, and the company plans to relocate its laboratory and commercial operations from Chicago to Madison, the state's governor's office said Tuesday. The state will give the microbial genomics and gene expression services and technologies company a loan of $200,000 and a grant of $50,000 from the Technology Venture Fund. It said that Integrated Genomics' move could create up to 18 new jobs. Compugen Gets $500K in Grants from Israel The company plans to use the funding to pay for relocating the laboratory to Madison and to buy equipment. Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle said in a statement that Integrated Genomics "is exactly the type of company our state should be investing in – companies that are developing innovative solutions in the biotechnology industry." Compugen said today that it will receive grants totaling aroun...

Microsoft has signed an agreement to acquire Rosetta Biosoftware , a unit of Rosetta Inpharmatics, from parent company Merck for undisclosed consideration. Microsoft said that the deal will enable it to add genetic, genomic , metabolomic , and proteomic data management software into its own Amalga Life Sciences platform for "enhanced translational research capabilities." Merck will become a customer of the Amalga Life Sciences 2009 platform and provide "strategic input" to Microsoft on the evolution of new solutions that incorporate Rosetta Biosoftware technologies, Microsoft said. The Redmond, Wash.-based software giant launched the Amalga Life Sciences 2009 platform in April. "The newly combined offering will enable customers to improve the management and analysis of genomic, biological and research data , helping to bring lifesaving drugs and therapies to market faster and accelerate the realization of personalized medicine," Peter Neupert, corpora...