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ELN articles and other resources

One of the original concepts of this website was to provide a simple portal to published information and opinion about managing laboratory information.  Apart from the various accumulated posts, there are a couple of dedicated pages on this website that provide links to other information resources, including a page dedicated to ELN Resources and Articles.  John [...]

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9th Forum on Laboratory Informatics

The 9th Forum on Laboratory Informatics was held in San Diego, November 14-16th 2011. The programme embraced a set of three workshops and a two-day session of presentations.  Here is a brief review of some of the presentations, with an emphasis on matters relating to laboratory integration.

The opening presentation by Martin Vaderlaan and Eugene [...]

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The Leahy Smith America Invents Act

The Leahy Smith America Invents Act was signed by President Obama on 16th September 2011, bringing to culmination a succession of proposed revisions to Patent Law in the US.  However, some commentators are expecting the new act to be subjected to revision as a consequence of concerns about potential loopholes.  As far as laboratory notebooks [...]

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IQPC ELN Conference – happy birthday!

The IQPC ELN conference celebrated its 10th birthday in Barcelona last week. As with some ‘application-centric’ conferences, it always seems slightly surprising that we can still find enough to talk about year on year. This year’s conference offered a familiar format of case studies, examples of best practice and topic-based discussion sessions, but there were [...]

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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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