• Strategies for Informatics Teachers Education to be held on 21 June 2022 in Bratislava. (cepis.org)
  • Study of a Novel Misleading Attack on Bitcoin,' in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 18, no. 11, pp. 8307-8315, Nov. 2022, doi: 10.1109/TII.2022.3142036. (uzh.ch)
  • Dublin, Feb. 20, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "The Lab Automation & Informatics Market, 2021-2026: Market Briefs" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. (globenewswire.com)
  • To better understand the burgeoning field of comprehensive population-based cancer surveillance informatics and its potential patient-centered clinical applications, we review the history of cancer surveillance in the United States, describe current systems, and evaluate the utility of informatics. (medscape.com)
  • Daniel Veltri is a bioinformatics data scientist and the federal lead for BCBB's Clinical and Laboratory Informatics Systems group and co-lead of the Data Science, Biostatistics, and Informatics Support Team. (nih.gov)
  • We are particularly interested in candidates with demonstrated expertise in clinical informatics, clinical research informatics, or translational bioinformatics with a focus on computational (including but not limited to ML and AI) and/or visualization methods. (utah.edu)
  • The students will also have obtained hands-on experience through analysis of case studies the advantages and challenges of applying health informatics techniques in various clinical and medical settings. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • After careful consideration and based on the growing outbreak of the coronavirus in the U.S., we are shifting our live AMIA 2020 Clinical Informatics Conference (CIC) to a virtual meeting. (amia.org)
  • Nation's clinical informatics experts urge FDA to take further steps to understand what kinds of CDS are currently used and planned for development across healthcare delivery organizations. (amia.org)
  • The Informatics Institute collaborates with the CCTS to improve the research application of bioinformatics and clinical research informatics. (uab.edu)
  • The Informatics Institute provides important interfaces between the PMI and the UAB health system to provide the patient data needed for research and the clinical informatics needed to effectively integrate PMI's findings into patient care workflows. (uab.edu)
  • The Informatics Institute collaborates with the CGM to provide bioinformatics expertise, as well as clinical (phenomic) data needed for the CGM's mission. (uab.edu)
  • The Informatics Institute is providing support to the program by transferring to the project Data Resource Center all the clinical data collected in the routine care of the participants at UAB. (uab.edu)
  • Barbara M. Hayes is Associate Dean for Administration and Planning at Indiana University School of Informatics at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. (mit.edu)
  • Programmes listed below in the School of Informatics have an application deadline. (ed.ac.uk)
  • Called QUIPU, for the ancient Incan record keeping system, the collaboration will provide certificate, master's and doctoral level informatics programs. (nih.gov)
  • The Medical Informatics master's degree programme consists of three compulsory modules and five compulsory-elective modules (bioinformatics, diagnostic and therapeutic systems, data science, information management or software development). (uni-heidelberg.de)
  • Transforming how health care is approached and delivered through big data is the goal of our two new professional programs: a graduate diploma and a master's in Biomedical Informatics. (queensu.ca)
  • The Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Utah is recruiting an early or mid-career (Assistant or Associate level) Tenure Track faculty position as part of a new initiative in collaboration with the University of Utah's The Scientific Computing and Imaging ( SCI ) Institute. (utah.edu)
  • Research in medical informatics under the direction of a faculty adviser. (columbia.edu)
  • It is organised by CEPIS and the Slovak Society for Computer Science in cooperation with the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics, and Informatics of the Comenius University in Bratislava. (cepis.org)
  • The miniconference will be held in the Mathematics Pavilion (room M-213) of the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics, and Informatics of the Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynska Dolina, Bratislava. (cepis.org)
  • ATTIS 2020 offers faculty, postdoc trainees, and graduate students an opportunity to report progress on the latest informatics research and applications in biomedical sciences at UAB. (uab.edu)
  • Since 1972, within the context of a collaboration between Heidelberg University and Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences, the faculty of the Medical Informatics academic programme has very successfully been educating Medical Informatics Specialists. (uni-heidelberg.de)
  • Computer Systems is an active area of research at the Faculty of Informatics of USI Università della Svizzera italiana. (usi.ch)
  • Research group Design Informatics is a research environment at the Department of Informatics, UmeÃ¥ University. (umu.se)
  • Design Informatics is a research environment at the Department of Informatics, UmeÃ¥ University. (umu.se)
  • We view 'design informatics' as situated within the sciences of the artificial, where we have a particular concern for digital things that are designed and re-designed through processes of appropriation, understanding, experience, and use. (umu.se)
  • In 'Design Informatics' our focus is on these designed things, and how these are perceived and situated in social contexts, and how these digital systems are entangled in, and part of our everyday lives. (umu.se)
  • Accordingly, and given the ongoing digitalization of our society, we place 'design informatics' at the core of the social sciences. (umu.se)
  • Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch's (BCBB) Data Science, Biostatistics, and Informatics team focuses on maximizing the value and knowledge contained in your data to identify patterns, prioritize experimental variables, and perform predictive modeling. (nih.gov)
  • Together with UAB's Department of Computer Science and Department of Biology in the College of Arts and Sciences, the Informatics Institue has developed an undergraduate bioinformatics curriculum to prepare bright students from across the world for the accelerating needs for bioinformatics technicians in the workforce and trainees for advanced degree programs. (uab.edu)
  • Founded by J. Craig Venter , Ph.D., the JCVI is home to approximately 300 scientists and staff with expertise in human and evolutionary biology, genetics, bioinformatics/informatics, information technology, high-throughput DNA sequencing, genomic and environmental policy research, and public education in science and science policy. (prnewswire.com)
  • GENOME INFORMATICS PROGRAM NIH GUIDE, Volume 21, Number 11, March 20, 1992 PA NUMBER: PA-92-59 P.T. 34 Keywords: Human Genome Information Science/Systems Computing Resources+ National Center for Human Genome Research PURPOSE The National Center for Human Genome Research (NCHGR) is interested in facilitating research and development in computational and information science that will support the achievement of the goals of the Human Genome Project. (nih.gov)
  • This announcement contains a description of the current priority areas of informatics research for the Human Genome Project and solicits applications for the Genome Informatics Program. (nih.gov)
  • It is anticipated that the Genome Informatics Program will support informatics research in selected targeted areas and will support establishment and operation of data repositories required to collect the results of the Human Genome Project and to make those results available to the broader biomedical research community. (nih.gov)
  • MECHANISMS OF SUPPORT The support mechanisms used to support research, development, and infrastructure projects in the Genome Informatics Program are research grants (R01), program project grants (P01), pilot projects and feasibility studies (R21), and First Independent Research Support and Transition (FIRST) awards (R29). (nih.gov)
  • RESEARCH OBJECTIVES The primary purposes of Genome Informatics Program are to develop new technology needed to accomplish the objectives of the Human Genome Project and to apply these technologies to the acquisition, management, analysis, and dissemination of mapping and sequencing information. (nih.gov)
  • It is envisioned that developing country institutions participating in the program may eventually serve as regional centers for medical, genome, and global health informatics training. (nih.gov)
  • Advanced informatics has always been a cornerstone of our genomic research beginning in the earliest days with the development of expressed sequence tags and sequencing the Haemophilus influenzae genome. (prnewswire.com)
  • Informatics] platforms can, for example, bring different kinds of data together on a single interface, so instead of going back to different instruments in the lab, you can search a single informatics system for your data. (scientific-computing.com)
  • We combine scientific and laboratory informatics expertise with strategic and business consulting capabilities, industry platforms , innovation approach and global scale to revolutionize how scientific and laboratory processes are conducted. (accenture.com)
  • Training programs should be directed toward building informatics capacity in the partner foreign country that can contribute directly to research in disease pathogenesis, prevention, diagnostics, or treatment. (nih.gov)
  • Several of Fogarty's informatics research training projects are reaching new levels of maturity, expanding to form regional networks, leveraging tools and hard- earned lessons to benefit growing numbers of developing country researchers. (nih.gov)
  • Begun in 1998, Fogarty's Informatics Training for Global Health program is designed to build informatics capacity in developing countries through training that is integrated into ongoing research projects. (nih.gov)
  • Before 1999, training or research activities involving medical or health informatics were almost non-existent in Peru," says Dr. Patricia Garcia, who helms the effort, which has recently provided informatics training to scientists as far away as Thailand and Africa. (nih.gov)
  • This research should fit in the context of the SCI Institute's mission of multidisciplinary bridge building ( http://www.sci.utah.edu/the-institute/bridges.html ) and the overall academic mission of the Department of Biomedical Informatics. (utah.edu)
  • The Department of Biomedical Informatics at the University of Utah works in a rich environment that emphasizes research in life sciences, health sciences, health services research, and informatics in collaboration with colleagues in various Schools and Colleges including Medicine, Nursing, and Pharmacy. (utah.edu)
  • We conduct research in informatics through design-oriented studies with a focus on the digitalisation of society. (umu.se)
  • ISI's Informatics Systems Research Division pursues a broad research agenda focused on creating new types of sociotechnical systems that enable and accelerate discovery in domains of high societal impact. (isi.edu)
  • The Informatics Systems Research Division research area is made up of a wide array of scientists, staff and students that help make ISI a leader in its field. (isi.edu)
  • This course will provide a comprehensive introduction to the fundamentals of modern health-focused informatics research. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • This 3-day course is open to a range of student backgrounds to serve as an introductory component of medical and health informatics and the diverse issues related to electronic medical records, public health research and eHealth. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • Nanotechnology research momentum suggests that informatics approaches are tractable in the era of big data. (aiche.org)
  • This year's theme "Informatics Research to Improve Biomedical Research. (uab.edu)
  • The objective of the degree programme is the acquisition and deepening of knowledge of current relevant scientific methods used in Medical Informatics along with the ability to adequately and effectively apply these in problem-solving processes in the various fields of healthcare and medicine, in the areas of patient care, therapy, and diagnosis, as well as in research. (uni-heidelberg.de)
  • Richard's vast informatics expertise coupled with his immunology and infectious diseases experience makes him the ideal person to lead the informatics team and grow our ongoing research programs at JCVI. (prnewswire.com)
  • The Observational Medical Outcomes Partnership (OMOP) common data model and the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) tools could be used as a core element in this initiative for harmonizing the terminologies used as well as facilitating the federation of research analyses across institutions. (thieme-connect.com)
  • In Germany, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) commenced a large data integration and data sharing research initiative (BMBF MI-I: Medical Informatics Initiative/Funding Scheme) in 2015 to improve the reuse of data from patient care and translational research. (thieme-connect.com)
  • AIM: To provide incoming Graduate Diploma in Biomedical Informatics (GDip [BI]) students with hands-on training in fundamental concepts in computer programming, and an introduction to programming languages, software tools and algorithms used in biomedical research. (queensu.ca)
  • The focus on the structures and algorithms necessary to manipulate the information separates biomedical informatics from other medical disciplines where information content is the focal point. (medscape.com)
  • Content distributed via the NLM Conversations with Medical Informatics Pioneers Oral History Project may be subject to additional license and use restrictions applied by the depositor. (nih.gov)
  • Skillsets and training for medical image acquisition, understanding, analysis and informatics is a key part of training for skilled workforce preparedness. (queensu.ca)
  • and (3) To develop a plan to create a sustainable medical and global health informatics training program at the institution. (nih.gov)
  • In the United States, however, the term informatics is mostly used in context of data science, library science or its applications in healthcare (health informatics), where it first appeared in the US. (wikipedia.org)
  • Professional development, therefore, played a significant role in the development of health informatics. (wikipedia.org)
  • Furthermore, they stated that the primary goal of health informatics can be distinguished as follows: To provide solutions for problems related to data, information, and knowledge processing. (wikipedia.org)
  • Medical informatics is most simply defined as computer applications in health care. (medscape.com)
  • Mars says he hopes to convince the continent's health ministers to add informatics expertise to their departments. (nih.gov)
  • In Health Informatics , experts in technology, joined by clinicians, use diabetes-a costly, complex, and widespread disease that involves nearly every facet of the health care system-to examine the challenges of using the tools of information technology to improve patient care. (mit.edu)
  • Unlike other books on medical informatics that discuss such topics as computerized order entry and digital medical records, Health Informatics focuses on the patient, charting the information problems patients encounter in different stages of the disease. (mit.edu)
  • The sociotechnical perspective taken by this extraordinary set of researchers serves as a model for applying information technology to a broad range of health informatics challenges beyond the case of diabetes. (mit.edu)
  • The Department of Biomedical Informatics traditionally hosts collaborations that cross the University of Utah Health Sciences Center, the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Intermountain Healthcare, and the Utah Department of Health. (utah.edu)
  • In the process of strengthening health systems, a lack of health-informatics capacity within low- andmiddle-income country settings is a considerable challenge. (who.int)
  • Many capacity-development initiatives onhealth informatics exist, most of which focus on the adoption of eHealth tools by front-line health-careworkers. (who.int)
  • This paper evaluatesthis unique capacity-development effort from the perspective of strengthening health systems and howthose in other low- and middle-income country contexts may learn from the Sri Lankan experiencewhen implementing capacity-development programmes in health informatics. (who.int)
  • The ASIGB will support countries with policy development and articulating government commitments for enhancing health electronic systems and the Surveillance Informatics Technical Advisory Group (SITAG) that serves as a technical resource to the ASIGB. (who.int)
  • In order to review the current status of eSurveillance in selected countries and identify strategic actions to address key issues and challenges on eSurveillance implementation in the WHO African Region, the Health Security and Emergencies Cluster organized the 3rd Meeting on African Surveillance Informatics Governance Board in Cape Town, South Africa from 16 to 18 July 2015. (who.int)
  • Health Informatics B.S. (oit.edu)
  • The Health Informatics degree fully prepares students to assume positions in healthcare settings that improve the effectiveness, quality of delivery, and operations using health information technologies. (oit.edu)
  • The Health Informatics degree program prepares students to interpret health policy and systems, with the ability to integrate policies into the healthcare agency. (oit.edu)
  • The Health Informatics program prepares students to analyze, design and develop information systems that enhance operational efficiencies and strategic goals of the organization. (oit.edu)
  • The Health Informatics program prepares students to analyze data utilize analytic technologies to improve the organization efficiencies and operational effectiveness. (oit.edu)
  • The curriculum map for the Health Informatics program can be found on the catalog web page on the Oregon Tech website, www.oit.edu/catalog . (oit.edu)
  • Methods Thyroid cancer diagnosis and stage-related modifiers were extracted with rule-based NLP from 63,795 thyroid cancer pathology reports and 56,239 Iodine whole-body scan reports from three medical institutions in the Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics data network. (thieme-connect.com)
  • The Observational Health Data Sciences and Informatics (OHDSI) collaborative continues and advances the work of OMOP. (thieme-connect.com)
  • The NHGRI Genomic Data Science Analysis, Visualization, and Informatics Lab-space (AnVIL) is a cloud-based genomic data sharing and analysis platform. (genome.gov)
  • The Climate Informatics conference series aims to bring together researchers and users across different disciplines and sectors to forge international collaboration between climate science, data science, and computer science, share state-of-art developments in climate data and informatics, and accelerate the rate of discovery in climate science and adaptation of climate applications. (nih.gov)
  • In other countries, the term "informatics" is used with a different meaning in the context of library science, in which case it is synonymous with data storage and retrieval. (wikipedia.org)
  • Examples of technical development areas in this program include but are not limited to informatics tools and resources such as: databases, standards for enhanced interoperability, collaborative analysis environments, data modeling and representation, and techniques for the integration of heterogeneous data, rational data-driven design of experiments, visualization of data, and digital representation of rich qualitative data. (nih.gov)
  • The end objective of biomedical informatics is the integration of data, knowledge, and tools necessary to apply that data and knowledge in the decision-making process associated with patient care. (medscape.com)
  • We work with our clients to streamline technology and processes, and harness the power of data, to remain competitive within today's changing scientific informatics ecosystem. (accenture.com)
  • However, there is still much to convey to researchers interested in harnessing the power of big data and informatics for promoting sustainable nanotechnology. (aiche.org)
  • This review focuses on current efforts to automate metric calculations, validate nanomaterial synthesis data, and incorporate informatics approaches to the assessment of nano materials. (aiche.org)
  • Citrine Informatics is the award-winning materials informatics platform for data-driven materials and chemicals development. (businesswire.com)
  • Is Entropy Suitable to Characterize Data and Signals for Cognitive Informatics? (uni-trier.de)
  • The Informatics Institute is working with AGHI to define the best methods for helping researchers get the data they need in a form that is most useful to them. (uab.edu)
  • Keynote presentation, scientific talks, flash informatics tool presentation, educational panel, single-cell analysis and data science toolkit tutorials, poster presentations, and informatics gateways will be offered. (uab.edu)
  • Citrine Informatics, a leading Materials Informatics software provider, announced record growth and breakthrough IP in the fourth quarter of 2020. (businesswire.com)
  • Due to concerns about the imminent appearance of COVID-19 in Alabama, it seems prudent to reduce potential community exposures by converting tomorrow's 2020 Annual Translational and Transformative Informatics (ATTIS) meeting to virtual participation and attendance. (uab.edu)
  • Explore opportunities with the multidisciplinary, interprofessional home for over 5,000 informatics professionals and join the AMIA community today. (amia.org)
  • Get streamlined, need-to-know informatics news and AMIA updates straight to your inbox with Informatics SmartBrief. (amia.org)
  • UAB Informatics Institute invites you to attend the 4th Annual Translational and Transformative Informatics Symposium (ATTIS)! (uab.edu)
  • He also held a number of academic administrative positions while at U.T. Southwestern including Director of the Division of Biomedical Informatics, Co-Director of the Division of Translational Pathology and Director of the Tissue Procurement Resource. (prnewswire.com)
  • Medical Informatics in Neurology: What Is Medical Informatics? (medscape.com)
  • These projects are adding depth and sophistication, growing beyond their original purposes and geography," says Fogarty informatics program officer Dr. Flora Katz, who credits the grantees with "educating university and government officials about the power of informatics, showing its value against many competing priorities. (nih.gov)
  • The Department of Biomedical Informatics is one of the most mature informatics programs in the United States, offering postdoctoral training, Ph.D. and Master of Science degrees and a graduate certificate program. (utah.edu)
  • The Department is co-located and cooperative with the program in Nursing Informatics. (utah.edu)
  • The Informatics program includes numerous student support systems that enable students to be successful throughout their course of study. (azwestern.edu)
  • Our Informatics program provides instructional support for class work and lab projects. (azwestern.edu)
  • Informatics professors are available and are always willing and eager to assist students with the support they need to succeed in the Informatics Program. (azwestern.edu)
  • Informatics meets genomics / 8th Millennium Evening at the White House. (nih.gov)
  • They are the result of a decade-long programme centredon a Master of Science degree course in biomedical informatics, which has trained over 150 medicaldoctors to date, and has now been extended to a specialist training programme. (who.int)
  • The School of Computer Science and Informatics is set to inspire school pupils to pursue a career in cyber security by hosting an important event alongside the CyberFirst Programme. (cardiff.ac.uk)
  • Specializes in Informatics, Education, and Oncology. (allnurses.com)
  • The Department of Biomedical Informatics is a National Library of Medicine Biomedical informatics training site. (utah.edu)
  • The Informatics degree /Applied Computing degree pathway from AAS degree at Arizona Western College to a BAS in Applied Computing from UArizona has been developed at Arizona Western College due to the INSTINCT2 Federal Department of Education HSI STEM grant award. (azwestern.edu)
  • Biomedical informatics is an diverse and expanding discipline that has been defined as the study, invention, and implementation of structures and algorithms to improve communication, understanding, and management of medical information. (medscape.com)
  • Image processing and pattern recognition are important fields in medical informatics, specifically in neuroinformatics as an emerging domain for CT scanning, MRI of the brain, and other new techniques such as SPECT and PET scanning and functional MRI (fMRI). (medscape.com)
  • Beginning in 2004, Drs. Joan S. Ash and Dean F. Sittig chose and interviewed seventeen medical informatics pioneers to capture their memories. (nih.gov)
  • In this course, students will understand the major issues related to applying informatics techniques to the medical domain as well as the challenges faced by researchers working on medical records today. (kcl.ac.uk)
  • In this supervised thesis, a current topic from the field of Medical Informatics is to be addressed, using scientific methods. (uni-heidelberg.de)
  • For this purpose, facilities of the Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences as well as the entire scientific network of the University of Heidelberg with the University Hospital, its clinics and institutes, in particular the Institute of Medical Informatics and the various cooperating institutes such as DKFZ, EMBL and others are available. (uni-heidelberg.de)
  • AIM: To deliver the foundations, principles, and practices of medical imaging, their acquisition, management, exploration, analysis and interpretation with focus on practical tools and informatics skills. (queensu.ca)
  • Researchers in Peru are building a Latin American training network and a university in South Africa is forming a consortium to strengthen biomedical informatics throughout Africa. (nih.gov)
  • Having developed a critical mass of researchers with informatics expertise in Peru, the Fogarty project at the University of Peru Cayetano Heredia is creating a hub to share that knowledge across the Andean region, with a focus on Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. (nih.gov)
  • Rather than continuing to bring scientists from across Africa to Durban to gain informatics expertise - which is expensive and has the negative effect of removing skilled personnel from their work place - the University of KwaZulu-Natal is using its Fogarty grant to form a Pan-African consortium that will make training available at multiple sites. (nih.gov)
  • According to the ACM Europe Council and Informatics Europe, informatics is synonymous with computer science and computing as a profession, in which the central notion is transformation of information. (wikipedia.org)
  • Depending on the context, informatics is also translated into computing, scientific computing or information and computer technology. (wikipedia.org)
  • Stay informed on the latest updates from Drexel College of Computing & Informatics. (drexel.edu)
  • Over the years, many different definitions of informatics have been developed, most of them claim that the essence of informatics is one of these concepts: information processing, algorithms, computation, information, algorithmic processes, computational processes or computational systems. (wikipedia.org)
  • The earliest uses of the term informatics in the United States was during the 1950s with the beginning of computer use in healthcare. (wikipedia.org)
  • My long-term goal is have informatics incorporated into the general education in sub-Saharan Africa. (nih.gov)
  • Informatics is the study of computational systems. (wikipedia.org)
  • Perspective on current interlinked informatics and decision making systems is provided. (aiche.org)
  • There are many options available when purchasing informatics systems for your laboratory. (labmanager.com)
  • McGibbon is certain queries such as these are driving demand for informatics systems. (scientific-computing.com)
  • Clearly such informatics systems can save a lab manager time and money, and boost production efficiencies, but underlying any practice is the all-important issue of safety. (scientific-computing.com)
  • He will be based in the San Diego, California facility and is responsible for leading and directing the informatics programs at both the JCVI Rockville, Maryland and San Diego campuses. (prnewswire.com)
  • The 11th International Conference on Climate Informatics is supported by NOAA's National Center for Environmental Information and The Collider. (nih.gov)
  • Toxicogenomics through the eyes of informatics: conference overview and recommendations. (nih.gov)
  • Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Informatics (ICCI 2004), 16-17 August 2004, Victoria, Canada. (uni-trier.de)
  • They introduced the term informatics only in the context of archival science, which is only a small part of informatics. (wikipedia.org)
  • These fields still mainly use term informatics in context of library science. (wikipedia.org)
  • In the fields of geoinformatics or irrigation informatics, the term -informatics usually mean information science, in context related to library science. (wikipedia.org)
  • Outcomes of applying informatics approaches to nanochemistry include more timely evaluations of green chemistry and sustainability in the context of nanomaterial route optimization and scale up. (aiche.org)
  • In the same month was also proposed independently by Walter F. Bauer (1924-2015) and associates who co-founded software company Informatics Inc. The term for the new discipline quickly spread throughout Europe, but it did not catch on in the United States. (wikipedia.org)
  • This was the first meaning of informatics introduced in Russia in 1966 by A.I. Mikhailov, R.S. Gilyarevskii, and A.I. Chernyi, which referred to a scientific discipline that studies the structure and properties of scientific information. (wikipedia.org)
  • Led by Dr. Maurice Mars, this distributed learning partnership will use video conferences and podcasts to share curricula and provide advanced informatics training to about 100 scientists over five years. (nih.gov)
  • The Lab Automation and Informatics market is an important subset of the market for laboratory instrumentation and software. (globenewswire.com)