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Semantic annotation of experimental records

A recent article ‘Where do the ideas come from?‘ I had written for Pharma IQ kicked off a short discussion on a LinkedIn group (LIMS Forum) that included a reference to a paper on ‘Annotating Experimental Records using Ontologies’ by Alexander Garcia, Olga Giraldo, and Leyla Garcia from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, [...]

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The Smart Laboratory: Towards a National ELN

This was a 2 day meeting, as part of the Lab of the Future theme of the EPSRC Dial-a-Molecule Grand Challenge, held in Southampton, UK on 28-29 July.

Dial-a-Molecule is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the main UK government agency for funding research and training in engineering and the physical [...]

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Semantics and ELNs

I recently conducted an interview on behalf of Pharma IQ with Jeremy Frey, Professor of Chemistry at the University of Southampton on the subject of semantics and electronic lab notebooks.  You can listen to the interview here.

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Paper vs Electronic

Following on from my post about Notebook Sharing, here’s another blog post wrestling with the consequences of changing from paper to electronic lab notebooks. Interestingly, the prospect of using an Apple iPad as an ELN gets some consideration.  I suspect that we’re going to hear a lot more about iPads in due course.

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Notebook sharing

One of the big arguments in favour of an Electronic Lab Notebook is of course the ability to share information with your co-workers.  However, despite the obvious benefits of sharing, there’s always the ‘cultural’ issue to deal with as well, i.e. how happy am I to share my ideas, records and data with my co-workers? [...]

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