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SmartLab Exchange

I’m just back from Berlin and IQPC’s 6th Annual SmartLab Exchange. Since its inception, this is a meeting I have always enjoyed since it brings together an influential community of users, vendors and consultants in the laboratory data, information and knowledge management space for a meeting that offers a slightly different format to the traditional [...]

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Laboratory integration and interoperability

IQPC have been running a series of podcasts aligned to a number of informatics topics.  I’ve just listened to an interview with Matthew Pustelnik, Director, Informatics at Takeda San Diego.  The interview, aligned to the forthcoming Laboratory Data and Information Management Summit, covers a number of points regarding laboratory integration and interoperability, but the 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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Just Doing the Science is not Enough Anymore

Prior to about 1900 most scientific innovation and development was either embedded in an industrial process, or was an outcome of academic or privately initiated research. The progressive introduction of industrial R&D laboratories heralded a new era of innovation and development with an extensive dependence on the skills, knowledge and creativity of individual scientists. The [...]

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Will we ever solve the integration problem?

At a recent conference I heard a presentation from a laboratory software vendor who described a generic set of requirements to achieve good efficiencies in laboratory data and information management. These included data transfer between systems, an integrated laboratory environment and the capability to efficiently access and share data and information across internal and external [...]

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