Bioreason Inc., a cheminformatics software and service provider, announced the release of the latest version of ClassPharmer Suite for screening data analysis, hit-to-lead development, lead optimization, and predictive toxicology. Bioreason has worked with Spotfire, a provider of visual analytic applications for drug discovery, to integrate their technologies in this new release. Read the press release.

Infotrieve Inc., a provider of content management technology and information services for the life sciences and other R&D-intensive industries, announced today the immediate availability of the Infotrieve/ELN 2.4. The Infotrieve/ELN is an electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) enterprise software package that allows experimental data to be securely collected, analyzed, stored, and shared among all pharmaceutical professionals, including: biologists, chemists, regulatory, quality assurance and records management professionals. Read the press release.

InforSense Ltd. today announced the launch of its integrative analytics platform InforSense KDE on Mac OS X version 10.4 "Tiger", and of InforSense BioSense Grid, a service-based high-performance environment for creating and publishing bioinformatics applications, on the Apple Workgroup cluster. InforSense BioSense Grid integrates iNquiry, the cluster and web portal for bioinformatics from The BioTeam, with the visual workflow, analytics and web services based architecture of InforSense KDE. Read the press release.

Illumina Inc. has begun commercial shipment of its Sentrix Human-1 Genotyping BeadChip. Powered by the cmpany's proprietary Infinium assay, the new Human-1 BeadChip can interrogate over 100,000 SNP loci per sample. This SNP content strategy is made possible by Illumina's Infinium assay, a genotyping method that the company claims offers virtually unconstrained locus selection and infinitely scalable assay multiplexing. Read the press release.

First Consulting Group Inc. has launched FirstDoc 3.3, the newest version of its enterprise content management solution for the life sciences industry. FirstDoc 3.3 includes enhanced XML capabilities and a re-architected enterprise object model to enable more flexible content sharing and better business process harmonization across functional areas. Its XML capabilities enable organizations to move away from formatting documents manually and reduce the time and effort required to format content for other media types. FirstDoc 3.3 also streamlines documentation updates while ensuring all of the content remains accurate. Read the press release.