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By John Trigg, on February 13th, 2012 The Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening’s 1st annual conference and exhibition, SLAS2012, was held in San Diego, California, USA on Feb 4-8th. The event was organised along identical lines to its predecessor, the annual ALA Conference, that has been based in Palm Springs over recent years. The Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) [...]
By John Trigg, on November 18th, 2011 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 [...]
By John Trigg, on November 10th, 2011 The Institute for Laboratory Automation has announced a membership scheme.
Lab automation technologies can transform lab work. Before we can reap those benefits we have to transform the way people approach lab automation. That is what this organization is about: helping people learn how to plan, implement, evaluate and use the products & technologies available [...]
By John Trigg, on July 19th, 2011 The latest Pistoia Newsletter has just been published. It is only available as an email subscription, but you can sign-up here. The main stories are that the Sequence Services Project is moving on to phase 2, and that the first Pistoia Conference, held at BioITWorld in Boston in April attracted over 100 delegates. There’s also [...]
By John Trigg, on June 2nd, 2011 Last week’s Laboratory Data and Information Management Summit in Amsterdam raised a number of interesting points. The programme touched on three different aspects of managing laboratory day and information; firstly, the on-going debate about the lack of standards, secondly, how to deal with the ever increasing volumes of data being generated in the laboratory, and [...]
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