By John Trigg, on July 8th, 2010
IQPC’s annual conference on ELNs and Advanced Laboratory Solutions is scheduled for September 27th – 29th in Amsterdam. As part of the build up to the event, a number of podcasts, videos, articles and whitepapers are available in the download centre, including an interview I conducted with Martin Vanderlaan, Director of Analytical Operations at Genentech, to discuss [...]
By John Trigg, on April 12th, 2010
Two news items caught my attention today. The first of these popped up in my news reader: ‘Why ELNs are doomed’. Jonathan Gross’ blog on BioData Blogs raises a familiar concern about the relative ease of use of paper and electronic lab notebooks in the laboratory environment. It has generated some input of friendfeed. [...]
By John Trigg, on March 25th, 2010
As well as running a workshop on integration (Minimise the Pain of Integrating ELNs and LIMS into your Paperless Informatics and Data Management Systems) as part of the technical programme at the recent SmartLabs Exchange, Joe Liscouski (Director, Institute for Laboratory Automation) also ran a half day session entitled ‘Manager’s Guide to Lab Automation & Technology [...]
By John Trigg, on March 8th, 2010
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 [...]
By John Trigg, on March 3rd, 2010
An interesting post on Simon Coles’ ELN Blog paints a dark picture of the RFP process. If we’re brutally honest, then the post doesn’t tell us anything that we didn’t already know, but weren’t prepared to admit. There seem to be two underlying themes around the points raised; firstly, to what extent are we [...]