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 [...]

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 [...]

The  Scientific Computing World ‘Laboratory Informatics Guide 2010‘ is available on-line here.

I recently saw a documentary on British TV about the low cost airline RyanAir. The CEO claimed excellent customer service because they are able to deliver the cheapest flights in Europe (cost), best punctuality (time), and the most modern fleet of aircraft (quality). However, their customers do not necessarily agree with the assertion [...]