A pressing issue facing laboratory managers in recent years has been the allocation of resources between scientific productivity and GMP compliance.

Underlying the challenge is an unwieldy paper trail of hand-written sample preparation and hard copy instruments reports. In addition, FDA regulation 21 CFR Part 11 requires companies operating in a GMP environment to manage electronic records according to the rule.

By operating in a paperless GMP environment, pharmaceutical companies can dramatically improve their scientific productivity, and simultaneously mitigate their compliance risk. The NuGenesis-VelQuest partnership delivers a comprehensive GMP solution to eliminate paper from the scientific data management process. The partnership will leverage NuGenesis Technologies' "print-to-database" instrument data capture solution, with VelQuests' electronic process management system.

The NuGenesis Toolkit allows VelQuest ePMC to programmatically extract result data from reports captured in the NuGenesis SDMS database. VelQuest users can review all laboratory results and supporting data in the context of the procedural detail used to generate the result. Likewise, NuGenesis SDMS users can view laboratory reports and instantly view the sample preparation information associated with individual results. For the first time, customers have an electronic means to perform an electronic audit, from procedure to result, and result to procedure.

"Our customers are looking forward to this partnership which will solve many existing problems of transcription errors, lost data, or reams of paper," says Bernie Prusaczyk, Vice President, Business Development for NuGenesis Technologies. "Prior to the NuGenesis-VelQuest integration, the paperless GMP laboratory was virtually unattainable."

"This collaboration is a significant step towards our goal of integrating with other leading data management tools," says Ed Halpin, Vice Business Development for VelQuest. "This integration provides our mutual pharmaceutical customers with substantial return-on-IT by mitigating compliance exposure and maximizing laboratory productivity."

About NuGenesis Technologies

 NuGenesis® Technologies Corporation, headquartered in Westborough, Massachusetts, is the market leader in Scientific Data Management Systems (SDMS). The Company's products and services provide businesses that rely on electronic data with new opportunities to generate competitive advantage, leverage innovation, and create value. NuGenesis' SDMS technology provides new efficiencies in data management, retrieval, and report development to fast-growing science-based companies - so that skilled employees can focus on analysis, interpretation and decision-making.

More information on the company can be found at www.nugenesis.com.

About VelQuest, Inc.

 VelQuest Corporation, headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, the innovator of an Electronic Compliance Platform enabling the Paperless Laboratory, has developed a complementary platform for pharmaceutical quality operations. VelQuest's ePMC technology provides a fully validated, paperless approach to data acquisition, documentation, storage and retrieval for use in new product submissions, product releases, stability testing, quality assurance and management analysis.

More information can be found at www.velquest.com.