How do you know which of the multitudes of acronyms to select from when buying software for your laboratory? There’s a simple answer to this, but you might not like it.

We wander around the laboratory integration maze on this site and find all kinds of different angles to discuss about the subject, but it is important get back to root causes every so often in order to remind ourselves of what the real problem is that we are trying to solve.  Joe Liscouski has provided [...]

Just a reminder that if you are thinking of submitting a podium presentation for Lab Automation 2010, then there’s less than a week left to submit abstracts.  The LabAutomation2010 conference and exhibition will be held January 23-27, 2010 at the Palm Springs Convention Center, Palm Springs, CA.

Solid state drives are now available in terabyte sizes, but are more expensive than their more traditional counterparts. However, a couple things might offset that higher cost. Additionally, the solid state devices can be quite fast.

Daring to mention ‘Six Sigma’ and ‘laboratory’ in the same sentence can be the precursor to a lively discussion. For most scientists, the word quality is generally associated with laboratory output, not necessarily the process that generates the output. Nevertheless, we’ve been talking about workflow for years, but this is often in the [...]