Briefs: Brady to launch LME interface; Lemur launches ‘flex legal’; Cambridge Research Biochemicals goes online
Brady plc, supplier of trading and risk management software for metals and commodities, said it would soon launch a new interface to LME SMART (the system for matching and registering trades from the London Metal Exchange). LME member firms will be able to interface directly to the LME's matching system which will forward trades to the London Clearing House (LCH) for clearing.
There will be a switchover period between November and March when both SMART and LCH MCS systems will be available, but by March members will have to interface to the SMART system.
CEO Gavin Lavelle said: "We know that many of our clients are expecting benefits from the new matching system and it is our job to make their migration as easy as possible. The interface will be released by the end of 2008 so that our clients can switch over at their convenience, and have sufficient time to ensure the interface is working perfectly with their systems."
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Lemur Consulting will launch the ‘Flax Legal' enterprise search engine next Tuesday. Lemur said Flax Legal is a major advance in the way law firms can search data, offering features that can complement existing systems.
Flax Legal is a fast enterprise search engine for legal firms that can search within proprietary file formats. It can unite different data sources, searching across different databases and applications, computers and networks. It has a customisable interface.
Flax Legal integrates with existing infrastructures and applications to maximise efficiency, and provides accurate and relevant results. The system will handle over four billion records as standard, and scales linearly. Flax Legal is secure; supporting different security and information access levels, and cross-platform - working on Windows, Mac or Linux.
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Horizon Discovery said it has signed an agreement with Millennium Pharmaceuticals to broadly evaluate its X-MAN technology.
X-MAN ‘Mutant And Normal' human isogenic cell-lines are the first genetically-defined in vitro models of human cancer and their matched normal cell-types that help accelerate and rationalize the discovery of novel ‘personalised' medicines and their optimal assessment in clinical trials.
The agreement covers an eight month evaluation of a panel of seven X-MAN cell lines; including for the first time a set of double cancer-gene ‘knock-in' lines designed to evaluate known mechanisms of patient resistance to targeted agents. The lines under evaluation represent model genotypes of interest to Millennium; who will further characterise the lines and test known targeted agents against these genotypes as well as internally developed compounds.
Millennium will pay Horizon an undisclosed six-figure fee and share key data-sets during the course of the evaluation period beginning August 2008.
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Cambridge Research Biochemicals, a specialist in the custom production of peptides and antibodies, launched an on-line shop.
In addition to its wide-range of stock peptides and dyes for peptide and protein labelling, CRB is now able to offer an extensive portfolio of novel products for the molecular and cell biologist through distribution agreements with Panagene and Biosearch Technologies.
These new products include a range of PNA products from Panagene, including custom PNA synthesis, telomere FISH probes, PNA Fmoc-monomers and globulin reduction PNA. Amongst the immunological products now available are synthetic haptens NP and NIP.
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ViewRanger off-road satnav smartphone software has been shortlisted for the British Computer Society award to recognise 'Project Excellence' in computing.
It has been developed by Augmentra. The application transforms a mobile phone into a personal navigation device complete with Ordnance Survey maps, online log book and its unique Buddy Beacon GPS tracker.
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The Technology Partnership plc (TTP) has won the Innovation and Design Excellence Award, as well as two other prizes.
TTP won the Best Design Consultancy Award, and was highly commended for the Design Collaboration Award, at the Innovation and Design Excellence awards. The awards are organised by Eureka, New Electronics magazine and Cranfield School of Management.
The iDEA awards recognise TTP's record of success in providing innovative solutions for a diverse range of products and industries. The products submitted by TTP as examples of its work were: a satellite radio, a veterinary instrument, and a TTP product, the Meteor print control system for inkjet printers.
