TBI is very pleased to announce their partnership
with Pharmhorizons to offer its corporate and
indiviudal members the opportunity to interface
with our newest membership benefit - the TBI EMPLOYMENT
SERVICE.
TBI corporate members will have the opportunity
to post new career opportunities and TBI individual
members will have the opportunity to seach the
new site for new jobs OR to post personal resumes
that will be made available to firms looking for
new staff.
It is easy to use and extends your job search
or position posting to the widest possible audience.
Toronto
Biotechnology Initiative & Relevant Software
Inc. are pleased to announce…
All members are eligible to receive netXtract®
Personal - the research productivity tool
- at no charge. TBI has negotiated an agreement
with Relevant Software Inc.(RSI), the developer
of netXtract, that will allow members to download
this valuable tool from the TBI web site for free
(versus the suggested retail price of US$29.95).
netXtract Personal (Patent Pending) helps researchers
to quickly pinpoint the most relevant information
within on-line documents & web pages and save
that information, along with key metadata, to
a personal knowledge base for future use. netXtract
complements, and does not replace popular search
tools.
netXtract Personal’s key capabilities:
• Automatically indexes each displayed web-page.
• Automatically extracts all contexts for
all key words & selected phrase.
• Enables users to "Jump" directly
to the most interesting context.
• User-definable keyword filters further
refine relevancy testing.
• Save any selected text directly into netXtract’s
Knowledge Base.
• Provides the ability to quickly classify,
categorize, and maintain saved information.
• Import existing bookmarks and add context
for each entry
• Export categories, or specific entries
in HTML, XML or MS Access Database formats (or
via e-mail).
• Seamlessly integrated into MS Internet
Explorer (Windows).
All TBI members will qualify for Major Account
Investment Poricing on
new Konica Minolta Business equipment.
TBI has negotiated a provincial
agreement that will allow any member the opportunity
to purchase or
lease business equipmen for their organizations.
This will allow
members to take advantage of Fortune 500 company
investment pricing and
service contracts.
Minolta celebrates their 75th anniversary
in 2004 and has become a
premier manufacturer and marketer of high quality
business equipment.
Minolta's reputation for precision-engineered,
leading-edge products
now extends worldwide.
E.O.E. is Canada's largest Konica Minolta dealer
and offers their
cutting edge office equipment technology and solutions.
The Konica
Minolta line helps enhance productivity through
printing, copying,
scanning and fax efficiency.
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Special discounts across a broad range of over
400,000 products in
speciality laboratory equipment, supplies, chemicals,
media, safety,
chromography, lab animal research, life science
and production supplies
On-site technical seminars to TBI and each of
it's members on current
topics in Life Science Research, Production Techniques
and Safety
Special costing on equipment
E-business web ordering solutions with additional
discounts if TBI
members order via vwr.com
Announcing Strategic Relationship with IBM Life
Sciences & Toronto Biotech Initiative
IBM Canada Ltd. is pleased to announce a strategic
relationship with the Toronto Biotech Initiative,
and invite all members to a free half day seminar
on Data Integration & Knowledge Management
on May 14th, Toronto Marriott (details below).
As part of this strategic relationship, IBM provides
TBI and its member companies with a number of
services, including:
Preferred pricing on IBM's
portfolio of products for Corporate use, including
PCs, Thinkpads, Workstations, Servers, Storage
and Software, for TBI member companies. To take
advantage of this special pricing you must work
directly with Liz Hanson, contact information
below.
The IBM Affinity Program (Employee
Purchase Program) offering attractive pricing
on PCs and Thinkpads for the personal use of employees
of TBI member companies (www.ibm.ca/store/aff2
or 1 888 315-7408) Note: this program is for employee
home use, please specify when ordering that you
are a TBI Member to take advantage of the special
discounts set up. For Corporate use, either call
Liz Hanson (Client Manager) or specifically for
Intel Technology - Howard Cross, PC & xSeries
Product Specialist, at 416 383-3893.
Access to IBM IT architecture
services, provided by experienced bioinformaticians,
to assist member companies in designing and/or
validating their IT infrastructure. Member
companies are eligible for a one day Bioinformatics
workshop at no charge.
Vendor financing, through IBM
Global Financing, to facilitate the acquisition
of IBM products and services.
Access to the IBM Life Sciences
Research and IBM's Computational Biology Center
(www.research.ibm.com/compsci/compbio)
to explore possible research collaborations and
technology sharing.
IBM's Life Sciences Business Unit started in 1999,
dedicated to the needs and requirements of this
unique customer set. IBM has 50+ field PhDs and
120 researchers within our 6 WW research facilities
that do LS research, working on projects involving
computational biology, chemistry and material
science.
IBM sees the volumes of data in Life Sciences
companies growing exponentially. IBM looks to
push the limits of our technology to ensure our
portfolio of products can meet the high data demands.
IBM's interest is in the middleware and IT infrastructure
and we work with IBM Business Partners as the
key solution providers for applications.
IBM addresses the technology requirements of Life
Sciences companies with the industry's broadest
portfolio of products and services, including:
high-performance infrastructure to support high-speed
computing and high-capacity storage; data and
knowledge management solutions to manage data
and support scientific collaboration; and clinical
development integration solutions to improve efficiency
and shorten the cycle time of clinical trials.
Also, IBM would like to invite all TBI members
to a free half day seminar on May 14th in Toronto
on Data Integration and Knowledge Management for
Life Sciences, discussing IBM research, Life Sciences
solution offerings, and hear from one of our business
partners, Molecular Mining, specializing in gene
analysis software.
