LabVantage’s SAPPHIRE™ Receives caBIG™ Bronze Compatibility Certification
Bridgewater, NJ. October 2, 2008. LabVantage announced today that its SAPPHIRE Laboratory Information Management Suite (LIMS) has been awarded the caBIG (cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid) Bronze Compatibility Certification by National Cancer Institute Center for Bioinformatics (NCICB). Sponsored by National Cancer Institute (NCI), caBIG is a network of biomedical informaticists, researchers, physicians, patients, and others for establishing an interoperable information infrastructure. The caBIG certification program is a mechanism designed for software solutions to be certified as compliant with the caBIG compatibility guidelines. This certification demonstrates that SAPPHIRE satisfies the requirements, including:
- Programming and Messaging Interfaces: Allowing programmatic access to data from an external resource;
- Vocabularies/Terminologies: Permitting use of publicly accessible controlled vocabularies as well as local terminologies;
- Data Elements: Maintaining sufficient data element description built using controlled terminology with proper metadata storage; and
- Information Models: Offering electronic diagrammatic representation of the information model.
“More and more cancer and translational research organizations, such as NCI and its designated research centers, are seeking to standardize their laboratory informatics solutions to facilitate knowledge sharing, and in turn, achieve research success,” states Terry Smallmon, Director of Life Sciences at LabVantage. “For example, as part of the caBIG certified SAPPHIRE Suite, the SAPPHIRE BioBanking Solution is of critical importance to organizations needing to establish standardized information technology solutions for their biorespositories or biobanks,” affirms Mr. Smallmon.
LabVantage’s SAPPHIRE BioBanking Solution has not only been selected to support the NCI Cancer Genome Atlas Biospecimen Core Resource, but has been adopted by numerous other institutions such as the Roswell Park Cancer Center, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute, Harvard Channing Laboratory, Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium, onCore UK, National BioBank Register of Sweden, Institute of Information Industry (Taiwan), and a number of the world’s largest contract research organizations, pharmaceutical giants, and fast growing biotechnology companies.
Built upon more than 20 years of laboratory information management know-how and almost a decade of thin-client computing experience, SAPPHIRE is well recognized as the industry leading thin-client LIMS and the premier biobanking solution for numerous institutions. “The Bronze Certification of SAPPHIRE, the first LIMS and the only pure zero-footprint solution to achieve this distinction, is another validation of our continuous commitment to adopt informatics standards and be at the forefront of best-in-breed technology, functionality, and flexibility,” says Jim Aurelio, CEO & President of LabVantage. “With SAPPHIRE, we enable a truly collaborative and compliant environment for scientific research organizations, both inside and outside of the NCI community.”
About LabVantage: LabVantage Solutions, Inc., an innovative global provider of enterprise solutions tailored for leading laboratories, serves discovery, development, formulation, process research, raw material testing, and quality management laboratories across multiple industries. LabVantage’s SAPPHIRE, a zero-footprint laboratory information management suite, is tailored to manage an organization’s critical laboratory information across its worldwide operations to optimize productivity and more effectively share knowledge. LabVantage is headquartered in Bridgewater, NJ, U.S.A. Further information about LabVantage and SAPPHIRE is available at www.labvantage.com.
About caBIG™ and caBIG™ Bronze Certification Program: caBIG is an information network enabling all constituencies in the cancer community – researchers, physicians, and patients – to share data and knowledge. The components of caBIG are widely applicable beyond cancer as well. More information about caBIG is available at https://cabig.nci.nih.gov. The National Cancer Institute Center for Bioinformatics (NCICB), in cooperation with the NCI Technology Transfer Branch has created the caBIG Bronze Compatibility Certification Program which has pre-set guidelines and requirements in the areas of caBIG compatibility. More information about caBIG Bronze Certification Program is available on https://cabig.nci.nih.gov/guidelines_documentation/bronze.
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