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November 24, 2008 Cover
Volume 86, Issue 47
COVER: With more and more high-throughput bioassay systems like the one depicted in operation, the volume of life sciences data is growing exponentially, posing a laboratory information challenge.
Volume 86, Issue 47
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Laboratory management software takes on the data explosion in life sciences
COVER: With more and more high-throughput bioassay systems like the one depicted in operation, the volume of life sciences data is growing exponentially, posing a laboratory information challenge.
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November 24, 2008 Issue
Volume 86, Issue 47
November 24, 2008 Issue, Vol. 86 | Iss. 47
Laboratory management software takes on the data explosion in life sciences
(pp. 13-18)
Features
Government & Policy
Transition to Obama Administration poses opportunity for shifts in priorities, direction of agency research (pp. 29-32)
Science & Technology
New technique catches eye of semiconductor industry and nanomanufacturing researchers (pp. 38-39)
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(p.8)Ineos' Loan Problem
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(p.9)Naming Dangerous Chemical Facilities
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(p.10)A Catalyst With Fluxionality
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(p.11)Pfizer's Stem Cell Research
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(p.11)Departments
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Anticipating a national rule on mercury removal from coal flue gas, technology providers jockey for position
(pp. 22-23)
Chemical companies' third-quarter results start to reflect impact of financial crisis
(pp. 24-25)
Acetonitrile is in short supply, and chemists are concerned
(p.27)
Laboratory management software takes on the data explosion in life sciences
(pp. 13-18)Concentrates
(pp. 19-20)
(pp. 19-20)- M&A Jumps In third Quarter
- Bayer Implements Sumitomo Cl2 Process
- Wellman Moves On Reorganization
- DSM Will Divest Side-Chain Business
- SABIC, Exxon Advance Elastomers Project
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- AMRI, Sanofi Settle Fexofenadine Case
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- Lilly Links With United Therapeutics
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- Business Roundup
ACS News
Awards(p.50)
(p.50)- Awards - Smissman Award To Bruce Maryanoff; Six inducted Into MEDI Hall Of Fame
- Joan Valentine Receives Seaborg Medal
- Call For Nominations For Patterson-Crane Award
- Edelstein Award Seeks Nominations
- Call For Nominations For The 2009 AkzoNobel Award
- Dr. Paul Janssen Award Seeks Applicants
- Call For Nominations For Spectroscopy Award
- Klaus Ditrich Awarded The Siegfried Medal
- Akron Section Award Goes To Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
Government & Policy
Transition to Obama Administration poses opportunity for shifts in priorities, direction of agency research
(pp. 29-32)
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Science & Technology
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(pp. 38-39)
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(pp. 40-41)
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(p.42)
New Software and Websites for the Chemical Enterprise
(p.44)Concentrates(pp. 36-37)
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