(West Chester, PA, 1^st June 2001) – Modular Instruments, Inc. the world leader in Data Acquisition and Analysis Systems for Cardiovascular, Cardio-Pulmunary, and Invitro Research announced today a revolutionary approach to data acquisition hardware.

"Modular can offer the high performance of BioReport 2001 coupled with the low cost data acquisition hardware from National Instruments.", says David Slater, Operations Manager at Modular. "For customers who don’t need the functionality of a Strip Chart or Real Time Scroller capability, using National Instruments E Series hardware in conjunction with BioReport 2001 means a low cost alternative. Customers can purchase the NI hardware themselves, then order BioReport 2001 from us. BioReport 2001 instantly recognizes the presence of the NI hardware and allows the customer to configure protocols to make use of the NI hardware.", continued Dave.

"We wanted to provide a low cost solution for cost conscious customers.", Jim Matthews, Director of Research & Development , disclosed. He continued, "The NIDAQ software from National Instruments provides the true 32 bit library that allowed us to open up BioReport 2001 to the full range of NI’s E series data acquisition hardware. For customers who want to immediately move to Windows 2000, the combination of NI hardware with BioReport 2001 is the way to go."

Jim also noted, "What is really cool is that Modular can now offer laptop data acquisition and analysis capability. By using a National Instruments PCMCIA card, like the DAQCard-AI-16E-4, along with BioReport 2001, any laptop can become a high-powered data acquisition and analysis system. After you’re done collecting data just disconnect the data acquisition cable from the laptop and you can take the laptop where ever you want to review, tabulate, archive, or generate reports."

As a registered member of National Instruments Affiliate Program, Modular Instruments can offer you advice on the NI hardware you will need. Modular also provides a handy link to the National Instruments web site where you can get technical specifications and order.

(West Chester, PA., 23rd March 2001) - Modular Instruments Inc., the world leader in Data Acquisition and Analysis Systems for Cardiovascular, Cardio-Pulmonary and Invitro Research, announced today the official release of BioReport^TM 2001, for Windows® NT.

"This release culminates a 2.5 year team effort. Our goal was not just to migrate our existing BioWindow^TM and BioReport^TM ‘Gold-Standard’ systems to a true 32-bit Windows® NT platform, but to build a better, more scalable, more flexible system; a system that could be seamlessly, networked and provide a solution for our clients’ global, enterprise-wide needs. "We have surpassed our goal," says Jim Mathews, Director of Research and Development at Modular Instruments. "BioReport^TM 2001, for Windows® NT contains much more functionality than our previous OS/2, BioWindow^TM and BioReport^TM, that has been successfully driving our clients’ research efforts for the past 10 years. We have built an archival/retrieval management utility, and both middle-ware and back-end databases, that allows our clients to access all ’meta’ data, computational and raw, from any PC-client connected to their global, enterprise-wide network."

"In our new BioReport^TM 2001, system we have added hardware flexibility and expandability," says David Slater, Director of Operations, at Modular Instruments. "Our new system will support both the Modular Instruments’ M100, 16 channel, hardware interface and the 16 or 32 channel, National Instruments’ interfaces. In fact, we have expanded the software to support up to 32 channels of input in any combination, either analog or digital. We are able to read data output from analog or digital amplifiers and other digital equipment. Currently, we are building a library of these devices, by manufacturer and model, so that our clients can seamlessly configure and integrate their other laboratory equipment, with just a click of the mouse!"

"Once again Modular Instruments has taken a huge leap forward and raised the standard for all data acquisition systems," says Jay M. Canter, Director of Business Development, for Modular Instruments. Twelve years ago, we came out with the first three dimensional spreadsheet, XYZ-RealTime^TM, for data acquisition and analysis. Two years later, we were the first company offering a true multi-tasking, system, BioWindow^TM. Five years later, we introduced BioReport^TM, again raising the bar, by adding a graphic, event-driven, interface, allowing user-configurable, reports, to be extracted in real-time. Now, we have advanced the field again. Our new enterprise-wide, BioReport^TM 2001, for Windows® NT, is the solution laboratory and IT, managers have been waiting for. It addresses the need for global, data sharing and mining and fits into the current global, enterprise-wide, infrastructure." We are completing a user-configurable, GLP package that will be available for the next software release. This GLP package will be FDA compliant, for electronic signatures, as outlined in 21CFR part 11. Planned also is an office version, BioReview^TM, which will allow our data to be reviewed and reanalysed from any laboratory, home or office, PC-client or solo, desktop PC."

For more information on BioReport^TM 2001 or any of Modular Instruments’ hardware or software products, please contact us.