Pittcon has started an online library that contains selected material from the 2010 conference.

I’m pleased to see that my talk, How AnIML Promotes Data Quality and Integrity, has been uploaded to the Technical Presentations section.

Titus Brown has a very funny spoof about how scientists will probably react to the NSF's moves towards data management plans. Go read it, I'll wait. After detailing all manner of horrible data, licensing and source code management techniques, he closes with

We have currently had some requests from individuals in research institutes inquiring about the possibility of getting student discounts for Samples.

Our reply to these inquiries was yes!   Yes, because we at Scimatic Software understand budget constraints in academia.  We build software for scientists and want scientists to use our software and not pass on it due to pricing concerns.

As of today we are changing our student discount into the academic discount.

Jamie and I had lunch last week with Greg Wilson, who has done yeoman's work getting students to use software productivity in research. Along those lines, I thought I might be able to offer up a some advice on how to make your life easier as a student in a scientific field.

A new version of Samples has been released to push out some customer requests.

Reagent Image

A request from the Nitz lab was for the ability to store an image of the reagent that they are working with. An example of this new feature is shown below. Now when you add a new reagent to your experiment you can simply drag & drop the reagent image directly from a website (or load an image from your computer).