Released on: March 5, 2008, 6:26 am

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Press Release Summary: PHILADELPHIA, Penn. (March 05, 2008) - Thermo Fisher
Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, announces the availability of
a new technical poster demonstrating the importance of configurability and
flexibility in laboratory information management systems (LIMS) design for life
sciences and high throughput screening applications. The new technical poster is
available free-of-charge via
http://www.thermo.com/eThermo/CMA/PDFs/Product/productPDF_4365.pdf


Press Release Body: Informatics

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Thermo Fisher Scientific Publishes New Poster from Lab Automation 2008 Purpose-Built
LIMS for Life Sciences and High Throughput Screening Laboratories

PHILADELPHIA, Penn. (March 05, 2008) - Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world
leader in serving science, announces the availability of a new technical poster
demonstrating the importance of configurability and flexibility in laboratory
information management systems (LIMS) design for life sciences and high throughput
screening applications. The new technical poster is available free-of-charge via
http://www.thermo.com/eThermo/CMA/PDFs/Product/productPDF_4365.pdf

The poster was originally presented at the Lab Automation 2008 conference in Palm
Springs, CA and is entitled The New Age of Configurability and Flexibility in LIMS
Design for Life Sciences and High Throughput Screening. The authors are senior
technical and development managers at Thermo Fisher Scientific with decades of
experience in pharmaceutical and biotechnology laboratories. They highlight the
need for plate handling functionality to be built into the core LIMS solution for
high throughput screening (HTS) environments. The poster is ideal reading for life
scientists in the biotechnology and drug discovery industries.

With the increasing workload in high-throughput laboratories, biotechnology
companies require user-friendly LIMS that contain plate handling functionality
out-of-the-box, while remaining flexible in how the system can be easily configured
and extended to meet their needs. With built-in plate handling functionality
utilizing a service oriented architecture in .NET, Thermo Scientific Nautilus LIMS
enables organizations to keep pace with changing laboratory techniques, automate
processes and manage increasing data volumes. The result is that scientists and
organizations are able to give rise to discoveries, make decisions and run tests
faster than ever before.

Plate handling and automation have become increasingly important in biotechnology
organizations where automation and high throughput needs demand that workflows
account for the manipulation of samples in a wide variety of plate formats and
configurations. These laboratories seek a robust LIMS that can execute and integrate
common plate handling operations including replication, splitting, probing,
compression, pooling and cherry picking. A plate design utility can greatly simply
the administration by enabling variable dimensions, well labeling, common and
user-defined fill patterns, specific well configurations and additional attributes
and metadata. Adding to the complexity, automated processes generally involve groups
of plates. The authors demonstrate how Nautilus LIMS provides the ability to
graphically program and emulate dynamic work processes involving groups of plates,
organize workflow activity into steps, execute actions on groups of plates at each
step in process and dynamically define and assign transition at each step.

With trends leaning towards increasing data volumes, high throughput environments
require information management systems that allow data from automated workflows and
processes to be modeled and integrated easily. To meet this need, these laboratories
seek a full-featured LIMS with an inherent configurable utility that allows for
communication with other applications and enable effortless integration of
instruments and robotic equipment. The system should be able to acquire data from
all types of instrumentation, including serial ports and networked instruments while
also applying specifications and logic to make dynamic decisions based on collected
data. Most biotechnology labs also require the LIMS to integrate older ASCII and
CSV file transfers as well as modern XML schemes and service oriented architectures.


For more information about Thermo Scientific informatics solutions or to obtain a
free-of-charge copy of the technical poster, please call +1 866-463-6522, e-mail
marketing.informatics@thermofisher.com or visit www.thermo.com/informatics.

Thermo Scientific is part of Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving
science.

About Thermo Fisher Scientific
Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. (NYSE: TMO) is the world leader in serving science,
enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. With annual
revenues of $10 billion, we have more than 30,000 employees and serve over 350,000
customers within pharmaceutical and biotech companies, hospitals and clinical
diagnostic labs, universities, research institutions and government agencies, as
well as environmental and industrial process control settings. Serving customers
through two premier brands, Thermo Scientific and Fisher Scientific, we help solve
analytical challenges from routine testing to complex research and discovery. Thermo
Scientific offers customers a complete range of high-end analytical instruments as
well as laboratory equipment, software, services, consumables and reagents to enable
integrated laboratory workflow solutions. Fisher Scientific provides a complete
portfolio of laboratory equipment, chemicals, supplies and services used in
healthcare, scientific research, safety and education. Together, we offer the most
convenient purchasing options to customers and continuously advance our technologies
to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery, enhance value for customers and fuel
growth for shareholders and employees alike. Visit www.thermofisher.com.


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Contact Details: Media Contact Information:
Name: Kath Darlington
Phone: +44 (0) 1477 539539
E-mail: thermofisher@scottpr.com
Website: www.scottpr.com

Media Contact Information:
Name: Susan Najjar
Phone: +1 781 287 4869
E-mail: susan.najjar@thermofisher.com
Website: www.thermo.com/informatics