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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. [...]

ELNs and Advanced Laboratory Solutions

IQPC’s annual ELN conference, ELNs & Advanced Laboratory Solutions will be celebrating its 10th birthday in Barcelona at the end of September. I would imagine that few of us who attended the first of this series of conferences in London in November 2002 would have thought there would be anything left to say ten years [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]