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Laboratory Data and Information Management

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 [...]

More on Solving Our Industry’s Integration Problems

Once again, I started to read one of John Trigg’s posts, planned to respond, then ended up with a comment that was long-enough and wandered off in a little different direction and I realized that I should make it a separate post. [...]

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 [...]

Biology, templates and clouds; ELNs in Amsterdam

IQPC’s annual ELN conference celebrated its 9th birthday in Amsterdam last week, and despite the concern that ELN conferences will progressively fade away as the industry matures, the attendance was up (delegates and vendors), and all in all, the event was quite lively. The conference spanned three days, kicking off with a ‘focus day’ targeted [...]

The Perpetual Data Machine

Whichever way you look at laboratory integration, sooner or later the ‘data’ problem will rear its ugly head. For years LIMS projects have wrestled with the vagaries of proprietary interfaces and data formats, and it is increasingly becoming an issue within ELN projects. If you are a LinkedIn member, take a look at this discussion [...]