• I hope you all noticed we changed vendor homepage!

  http://backoffice.assaydepot.com #

• Ha! I mistyped: I love it when quote requests come in at 11:30pm and the first responses come in by midnight! #
• I love it when quote requests come in at 11:30pm and are the first responds come in by midnight! #

• @goBalto Bravo! Large portions of our product are powered by Knob Creek as well ^CP in reply to goBalto #

• Wow, EMD's periodic table iPad app is in the "New and Noteworthy" section of the iTunes store! Nice work! http://j.mp/bFHWbx #

• BioGPS has migrated to #couchdb http://j.mp/d3xMwK #
• Couch.io did a case study on us! http://j.mp/aufPLp #

It’s no secret that here at the Depot, we love CouchDB. We have been using CouchDB as our main database for a couple of years now. In that time, the team responsible for creating couch has formed a company, Couch.io, to foster and support the growing community. Couch.io recently did a case study on the way Assay Depot uses Couch. If you are interested in a taking a peek under the hood of how Assay Depot works (or want to get more familiar with Couch) head over there now and take a look.

CouchDB is really taking off. I was excited this week when I got a note from Andrew Su at the GNF informing me that BioGPS has converted to CouchDB. If you’re not familiar with BioGPS, it’s a great resource for learning about gene and protein function. It’s a great product; if you are looking for information about genes or proteins, I’d recommend checking it out.

• Haha, checkout what assaydepot.com would look like if we were hosted on geocities: http://j.mp/asl1Xf #

• Cornell researchers discover the structure of the Sac protein http://j.mp/cTNqfj #
• Anti-cancer agent stops metastasis http://j.mp/c2VBa5 #

• Scientists find multicellular life without oxygen: http://j.mp/bQUmTE #
• Find genes in milliseconds instead of years http://j.mp/baEgdB Ha! That's only 10 orders of magnitude… #
• How special relativity makes gold "gold" http://j.mp/a4b78m (via @newsycombinator) #
• Yet Another Gene Syndrome: http://j.mp/c6YzRr Amazing how far we've come in 15 years. #
• We just made our entire CRO database available on our site, go check it out! http://j.mp/crZR4n (blog post) #

Just last week we release our faceted browsing feature. This week we are following it up by adding the entire contents of our internal database of suppliers to the website. Our database is the most highly curated database of pre-clinical CROs anywhere consisting of more than 2,300 vendors, with more added everyday.

You can access this database right from our homepage:

There is a link to view all providers right on our homepage

If you know the name of the CRO you are looking for, you can browse an alphabetical list:

Browse CROs by name

Or you can search for any term you like and look for providers that way (try searching for proteomics or next generation sequencing):

Searching for Next Generation Sequencing returns over 70 CROs

Finally, you can still narrow your search by certification or location. We hope you like the new feature, please add a comment if you have any ideas, concerns or suggestions. Happy searching!