By John Trigg, on March 30th, 2010
In the relentless pursuit of increased efficiency and better productivity in our laboratories we turn to computers and automation to drive out inefficient human and paper-based processes. So it was with some surprise that amongst my daily news feeds that keep me informed of the latest and greatest breakthroughs in laboratory matters, I came across [...]
By Charlie Sodano, on March 26th, 2010
The Fight for Space
I’m sure most of you have run into a situation that I’m facing. I bought a new laptop 2 years ago with a 90 GB hard drive. Actually you only get 88+ GB of usable space out of this kind of drive. I could have bought a bigger drive, but remember [...]
By John Trigg, on December 4th, 2009
The subject of raw data has crept into the vocabulary of the media recently with alleged wrong doings amongst scientists in connection with data related to climate change. The matter has unsurprisingly been dubbed ‘climategate’ and is currently chalking up over 28,000,000 hits on Google. The underlying issues, if they are real, are political, and in [...]
By John Trigg, on June 29th, 2009
It’s hardly the most exciting subject, but long term retention is one of those topics that seem to lurk in the background whenever the subject of electronic records comes up. With several centuries experience behind us, we’ve learned quite a bit about preserving paper records; Leonardo Da Vinci wrote his notes over 500 years ago, and [...]
By John Trigg, on June 25th, 2009
I don’t think there is any doubt that the uptake of Electronic Lab Notebooks was slowed down by concerns about the admissibility of electronic evidence in patent interferences and litigation cases. Those concerns are more or less history now, and there’s enough information and good advice around for anybody about to embark on an ELN project [...]