A MAJOR update of Maple, the technical computing software for mathematicians, engineers and scientists, has made the program easier to use and more powerful, says distributor Adept Scientific. Maple 16 introduces new tools and techniques in its Clickable Math collection,…
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Bioinformatics software analyses next-gen sequencing data
AGILENT Technologies has released version 12.0 of GeneSpring, its bioinformatics software, with new capabilities for the analysis of next-generation sequencing data and the facility to work across for transcriptomic, metabolomics, and proteomic platforms – or as Agilent describes it, ‘multi-omics’.…
StarDrop now interfaces with FieldAlign
EARLIER this year, Optibrium and Cresset announced a ‘technology exchange’, which has now manifested in the first practical collaboration between the companies. The latest version of Optibrium’s compound identification software, StarDrop 5.2, includes a module to access Cresset’s 3D compound…
Design a molecule, win an iPad
CAN YOU design a molecule biologically similar to, but not the same as, a specified reference compound? The task isn’t quite as easy as simply swapping an atom or two, as the newly-designed molecule must be synthetically tractable and drug-like,…
Digital pathology software now includes stereology
GAINING valuable information about 3D features from 2D tissue sections makes stereology a valuable tool in the modern pathology laboratory. Now Definiens has expanded its software range with new stereological analysis methods. The latest release of its Tissue Studio histological…
Software makes sense of microscope images
EVEN the best cameras with the highest quality optics and sensors are limited by the dynamic range of what they can record, and this feature is especially noticeable in high-contrast images. This can be a problem in microscopy applications where…
Mosaic now talks to Matrical
TITIAN Software has upgraded its Mosaic sample management software so that this can integrate with Matrical Biosciences automated stores, meaning that Mosaic is now capable of interfacing with industry-standard compound stores. Mosaic comprises five modules – inventory tracking, ordering, workflow…
Maple Player available for iPad
A FREE iPad app lets users view and interact with documents created in Maple, a powerful mathematical software tool. Maple, available in the UK from Adept Scientific, is a so-called ‘computation engine’ offering a range of advanced mathematical functions for…
4D software helps understand transendothelial migration of neutrophils
TRANSENDOTHELIAL migration is a decisive step in the passage of the blood neutrophils through the endothelial cells lining the lumen, and a crucial component of immune response. The complex vessel wall structure, coupled with environmental factors including blood flow and…
New features for live cell imager
THE LATEST Cell-IQ software from TAP Biosystems enables walk-away monitoring, recording, and quantification of changes in cell morphology with up to three different fluorescent dyes. This makes it ideal for scientists seeking flexibility within a single stem cell imaging system,…