PerkinElmer Inc. announced that it is expanding its OneSource(R) Laboratory Services offering to include strategic laboratory consulting services. OneSource(R) Strategic Lab Solutions will deliver the combined power of PerkinElmer's expertise in informatics, instrumentation, service and process optimization, to increase laboratories' productivity and performance. Due to limited access to laboratory personnel, information technology expertise and budgetary resources, it is often challenging for companies to focus on optimizing their laboratory operations. With the OneSource Strategic Lab Solutions offering, PerkinElmer has developed a strategic approach to identify and implement new processes and services to improve laboratory workflow and optimize capital assets across the laboratory, including not only instruments, but also laboratory IT systems, staff and processes. The new solutions encompass a wide range of services, including efficiency and productivity, lab assessment, strategic prioritization, and scientific knowledge management.

PerkinElmer Inc. announced that E. Kevin Hrusovsky, Senior Vice President and President, Life Sciences and Technology of the company informed on May 7, 2013 that he was resigning from the company effective as of May 31, 2013.

PerkinElmer Inc. introduced the newest version of Lead Discovery for the TIBCO Spotfire(R) software platform at the company's Revolutionaries for Global Health Summit. The new functionality of Lead Discovery 5.1 combined with the TIBCO Spotfire(R) software's advanced data visualization and analysis capabilities bring a new level of chemical intelligence to the informatics platform for advanced scientific discovery. Lead Discovery 5.1 offers interactive tools for structure searching, activity profiling, R-group decomposition, clustering on properties/structural descriptors and list management. This example shows R-Group decomposition based on a common scaffold computed through the native chemistry algorithms in Lead Discovery 5.1. PerkinElmer's Lead Discovery(TM) 5.1 enhances the TIBCO Spotfire(R) software data analysis capabilities with new functionality built specifically with chemists in mind. Based on PerkinElmer's ChemDraw(R) drawing tool, the chemical intelligence in Lead Discovery provides scientists using TIBCO Spotfire(R) software with extensive chemical structure searching and visualization. The new technology enables users to mine their chemical databases to identify more compounds that have similar chemical structures, broadening their potential pool of candidates based on known properties and shortening their time to discovery of a viable candidate or lead. In addition to dynamic, structure-based filtering, another key functionality of Lead Discovery 5.1 is that it automatically analyzes and displays R-groups (group side chains in chemical structure diagrams) or substituent variations on similar chemical scaffolds. These chemical variations have significant impact on dose response and side effects as they affect how the molecule interacts with a target. Using the new informatics tool, scientists can quickly isolate the variables to identify and optimize promising compound candidates.