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ELNs 2010

IQPC’s annual conference on ELNs and Advanced Laboratory Solutions is scheduled for September 27th – 29th in Amsterdam. As part of the build up to the event, a number of podcasts, videos, articles and whitepapers are available in the download centre, including an interview I conducted with Martin Vanderlaan, Director of Analytical Operations at Genentech, to discuss [...]

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The iPad in the laboratory?

A month ago I wrote a small piece entitled Will the iPad Replace Your Paper Lab Notebook?, basically just a comment on an article in Bitesize Bio which asked the same question, following the release of the Apple iPad. More recently there has been a discussion in one of the LinkedIn groups on What is [...]

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Yet More Conference Notes

I haven’t written about conferences for awhile and I don’t remember if John has, either, so I thought I’d make my usual pitch, which is: Get out there and go to a conference. Find a good one that meets your needs, get the budget, and just get to it.
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Forthcoming meetings

The Automation & Analytical Management Group (AAMG) of the Royal Society of Chemistry is holding a one day workshop on the topic of ‘The Challenges Facing Laboratory Systems’ Integration‘ on Thursday 20th May 2010 at The Royal Society of Chemistry Burlington House, Piccadilly, London.

Arena International is holding the 2nd annual conference on ‘Laboratory Data Management‘ on [...]

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Will the iPad Replace Your Paper Lab Notebook

When Apple’s iPad went on sale in the US a few days ago, the first phase of the iPad hype cycle reached its ‘peak of inflated expectations’. It remains to be seen what the next phase brings, but we can be sure that there will be continuing speculation of the device’s capabilities and areas of [...]

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