Thermo Fisher Scientific Launches Nautilus LIMS v 8.0

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the world leader in serving science, today unveiled version 8.0 of its Thermo Scientific laboratory information management system (LIMS), Nautilus. Nautilus LIMS™ 8.0 represents the company’s most significant development investment since the solution was first commercialized in 1998.

“Nautilus has been a tremendously successful product for us, and more important, for our customers,” said Dave Champagne, vice president and general manager of informatics for Thermo Fisher. “With this update, we combined the desires of Nautilus users with innovative yet proven technologies like Microsoft^® .NET to recast Nautilus as a modernized LIMS that can grow with our customers needs. It provides future-proof protection, without leaving any customers and their existing capabilities behind. I’m confident our customers will agree: Nautilus has never looked better.”

Nautilus 8.0 delivers updates and enhancements in a number of areas:

• User Interface -- provides greater ease of use, from organization and searching to login and results entry. Explorer interface shares same “look and feel” as Darwin LIMS™ and SampleManager LIMS™, also Thermo Scientific informatics solutions.
• Workflows – an all-new cut and paste operation enables users to copy workflow nodes rather than rebuild; the paste operation carries out validation checking so inappropriate nodes cannot be incorrectly used.
• Plate handling – the use of .NET technology gives users greater interaction and flexibility with plates, such as drag and drop within and between plates, and cherry picking is now standard.
• Data types – more/new data types can be stored within Nautilus, such as package results and notes.
• Web interface – full results entry is now capable via the Nautilus web interface.
• New data manager module – designed for instrument data management and collection, drawing on technology from GRAMS, a Thermo Scientific desktop spectroscopy solution. Allows for the capture and storage of derived as well as raw data.

The reporting engine in Nautilus has also been dramatically enhanced. Retriever, a web-based data enterprise reporting solution, features dashboard management that enables Nautilus users to measure and even forecast key performance indicators in real time. Retriever allows data from any informatics system, current or legacy, to be directly and securely accessed by the appropriate people within the organization.

Nautilus 8.0 is available for demonstration at on Booth 1437 at PITTCON 2007, Feb. 25-March 2, McCormack Place in Chicago, Illinois, as well as the Nautilus user group meeting, scheduled for March 15, 2007 at the Thermo Fisher Scientific informatics training center in Philadelphia. To register for the user meeting, please visit the article webpage.

Since its debut in 1998, Nautilus has emerged as a flexible solution for customers in many industries, who have found unique ways to make use of the LIMS’ easily configured functionality. From food and beverage manufacturers to forensic labs to drug discovery research, customers count on Nautilus to manage laboratory data for easy access and use in making informed, fact-based science and business decisions.