Stone Bond’s Process Automation System Contributes to Bio-IT World’s Best Practices Award for Baylor College of Medicine
Bio-IT World magazine named the Baylor College of Medicine Microarray Core Facility as the Grand Prize winner of its annual Best Practices awards for 2004. The award, in the category of IT Infrastructure and Informatics, recognizes the lab’s process automation system that employs Stone Bond Technologies’ Enterprise Enabler(TM).
The Microarray Information Database (MAID) system operates on Stone Bond’s Laboratory Information Management System software (EE-LIMS), giving researchers the ability to easily query, analyze and manage information from initial submittal all the way through to discovery. Researchers, administrators and lab technicians use a single, integrated system to submit and monitor research requests, processing and billing.
“Our goal was to automate the lab with no disruptions to our business activities,” said Lisa White, Ph.D., director, Microarray Core Facility, Baylor College of Medicine. “Realizing a quick return on our investment (ROI) was also paramount to our decision to implement EE-LIMS, and we were not disappointed. We started to realize the value of our investment immediately. It streamlined and improved our processes, elevating the accuracy level of data flow, and simplifying grant applications with the immediate availability of data. We actually have less people working at the lab now, and the new system lets us do more with less people.”
“Bio-IT World’s selection of Baylor’s facility for this prestigious award demonstrates the remarkable success many of our customers are experiencing by aligning their IT resources to their critical business needs,” said Pamela Szabo, CIO for Stone Bond Technologies. “Dr. White and her team have proven how technology changes can dramatically improve their business and business processes. We applaud them for their achievement and for their innovative implementation of EE-LIMS.”
The lab provides researchers — both internal and external to Baylor College of Medicine — access to microarray technology and services genetic expression. The facility provides experimental design, probe preparation protocols, hybridization, and image scanning for cDNA arrays as well as Affymetrix GeneChips(R). The lab also offers data analysis services and Quantitative PCR (QPCR) for validation of gene expression results.
Prior to implementing Stone Bonds’ EE-LIMS, the Microarray Core Facility used traditional paper-based, handwritten processes.
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