Following the last ELN meeting in Europe (ELN: Laboratory Informatics for the 21st Century, the SMi Group, London, January 2010), a considerable amount of discussion ensued on an ELN LinkedIn Group in which some thoughts were expressed about the role and effectiveness of ELN conferences.  The general consensus was that delegate attendances were falling, content [...]

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.

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 [...]

It sounds as if there are several schools around the world to train future bioinformaticians and laboratory informatics professionals. It is only on the European projects I have been working on where I seem to run into graduates of such a program, and it always seems the person comes from the GPHY School in Poitiers, France ( http://www-gphy.univ-poitiers.fr ).

There have been two separate discussion running on LinkedIn that have a bearing on the subject of laboratory integration. The first of these follows up from a question I raised: “Does anybody have any thoughts on the integration/interfacing of laboratory systems to SaaS offerings of ELN and LIMS?” The second was based on [...]