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Laboratory information and acronyms

LIMS is Dead! Long live LIMS! – That’s the title of a post on Jeffrey Lee’s JAL Pharmatics website which attracted my attention when it popped up in my RSS Reader. It makes interesting reading, particularly if you substituted your favourite acronym e.g. ELN, SDM, etc. for LIMS. I suspect Jeffrey’s argument (that a specific [...]

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Sharing Scientific Information

Someone in the network of people I know had written to ask us all if we had tips on sharing scientific data. Basically, once you have your system in place, how do you get people to “play nice”? How do you make sure people don’t take each other’s data or misuse it? This was aimed at internal data. This is a question I hear more frequently as more companies get their systems into place. [...]

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Conferences, head count and content

There have been a number of posts on theintegratedlab.com from time to time about conferences, so it was interesting to be alerted to some comments from Tim Bray and Simon Coles about ‘numbers of attendees’ reported by conference organisers. Now I don’t want to get into that specific issue, but in the background it does [...]

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LIMS and ELNs again, and again…

Almost a year ago I posted an item on the question of when is a LIMS an ELN, and when is an ELN a LIMS. It is still one of those questions that is causing a good deal of head scratching and cropped up again at the recent SmartLabs Exchange meeting. With the arrival over [...]

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Lab Automation & Technology Management

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 & [...]

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