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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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Management Buy-in and User Acceptance in an ELN Project

Management buy-in and user acceptance are two factors regularly identified as critical to the successful outcome of a project. It’s been encouraging to observe, over recent years, that most case studies presented on the deployment of Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELNs) that these are two factors that are given more and more consideration in project planning. [...]

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Yet More on Upgrades (and Replacements)

To explore more of the upgrade portion of the last post, consider these as a fast five things to carefully consider when you’re thinking about whether or not to upgrade versus replacing a system, where these are factors toward replacing it over upgrading it. [...]

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