Pharmacy

Waters Corporation has recently announced its entry into a non-exclusive co-marketing and reselling agreement with Premier Biosoft International. This collaboration is to conduct advanced lipidomics research. Waters will offer Premier Biosoft's SimLipid informatics platform for sale with Waters Acquity UPLC and high-resolution, exact mass SYNAPT and XEVO mass spectrometers for lipid analysis. Premier Biosoft released its SimLipid software product earlier in 2011, which generates portable reports and images in different file formats such as xls, csv, html, jpeg and png to facilitate dynamic information sharing. In addition, each structure is mined for its associated class, reaction, pathway and enzyme, so that scientists do not waste time and money on laborious manual annotation. This technology would provide high levels of specificity, liquid analysis along with separation of isobaric/isomeric liquid species.

"Waters UPLC, ion mobility, advanced mass spectrometry and informatics technologies have created a lipid analysis platform, which provides greater insight into our complex biological investigations than ever before," said Professor Jeremy K Nicholson, Head of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, Waters Center of Innovation.