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Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "21 CFR Part 11 Compliance for SaaS/Cloud Applications: 2-day In-person Seminar" conference to their offering. This interactive two-day course will explore proven techniques for reducing costs associated with implementing, using, and maintaining computer systems in regulated environments. Today, the FDA performs both GxP and Part 11 inspections, the Europeans have released an updated Annex 11 regulation that expands Part 11 requirements and companies must update their systems and processes to maintain compliance.

Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) specialist, Autoscribe Informatics, is running an interactive webinar that discusses all aspects of “out-of-the-box” (OOTB) LIMS. The webinar will take place on Thursday 15th December at 8 AM Pacific Standard Time, 11 AM Eastern Standard Time, 4 PM Greenwich Mean Time and 5 PM Central European Time.

Cloud-based platform assists in managing, sharing data facilitates research. MIT spinout Benchling is bringing life science researchers a cloud-based platform that integrates different types of lab software into one place, with aims of making research and development easier, quicker, and more collaborative.

Due to contstant growth over the recent years, Genohm has reshaped the structure of the company in order to be ready to support ramping up the speed and size the business globally. To lead Genohm, a new structure for the Executive team was also put in place.

Are you in charge or involved with new product development within your organization? Are you looking for an easier way to develop and manage all your product formulations throughout their lifecycle? Then this white paper will provide you with an overview of how you can utilize the Formulations Management module within LabVantage’s latest LIMS platform to ensure efficiency in product development and lifecycle management. Adequate control, documentation and reuse of information will in turn ensure your product quality, effectiveness and safety.

Back in 2011, I started a discussion in the LIMS forum group asking the group for thoughts about where the LIMS industry was heading.  The discussion had 38 responses.  It is now coming up on 2017 and I think it is time to revisit this question.  Here is the original discussion:  http://www.limsforum.com/forum/where-is-the-lims-industry-headed/

Presented by: CEO of sciNote, Klemen Zupančič. sciNote - Open Source Electronic Lab Notebook. Klemen will give us an overview how research data is currently being managed and how this will change in the future. Most of this 45 min webinar will be dedicated to the Q&A session, during which he will answer your questions about ELNs and address any concerns you might have.

OptraSCAN, Inc. today announced the availability of CLOUDPath™, a part of the On-Demand Digital Pathology Solutions Suite, to be launched on the Salesforce AppExchange, providing a highly affordable, secure, cloud-enabled LIMS app for customers using the Salesforce Health Cloud.

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) and Transcriptic Inc. have agreed to partner their technologies to provide a solution for convenient, broad scale synthetic and discovery biology research. Agilent continues its strong program of fostering innovation using the Agilent portfolio by collaborating with rising companies such as Transcriptic to develop novel synthetic biology solutions. Transcriptic's automated discovery biology platform enables scalable life science research through a convenient and simple web interface. Biologists who use the platform can control their science and generate data remotely via the cloud.

ACD/Labs, an informatics company that develops and commercializes solutions in support of chemical and pharmaceutical R&D, today announced that Boehringer Ingelheim, a leading pharmaceutical company, chose to deploy ACD/NMR Workbook Suite and ACD/NMR Predictors to NMR spectroscopists as well as ACD/Spectrus Processor to several hundred scientists, in Europe and North America.

Genomic data is increasingly used to provide better, more focused clinical care. Or course, its associated datasets can be large, and it can take significant processing power to utilize and manage effectively. In this 2016 paper published in Journal of Personalized Medicine, Tsai et al. of Partners Healthcare describe their "bioinformatics strategy to efficiently process and deliver genomic data to geneticists for clinical interpretation." They conclude that with more research comes improved workflows and "filtrations that include larger portions of the non-coding regions as they start to have utility in the clinical setting, ultimately enabling the full utility of complete genome sequencing."

Like many laboratory products, LIMS change with evolving technology and regulations as well as client ideas. In the past, I’ve worked with a laboratory products manufacturer who made great profits off of client ideas for new products. There is nothing that rings the ear of a consumable products company owner like “I’d give a dollar each for…”

There are many places you can search to learn what should be included in a LIMS RFP, however, care must be taken to ensure that the requirements used in your LIMS RFP truly reflect your needs, processes, and priorities.

CloudLIMS.com, a class-leading provider of Laboratory Management solutions, has released a new version of its SaaS LIMS, CloudLIMS Lite. CloudLIMS Lite helps biobanks, clinical, research and testing laboratories keep track of their biospecimens, right from sample entry through labeling, storing, shipping and disposal.

A comprehensive LIMS Glossary and Acronyms e-book with important definitions of Laboratory information management system (LIMS) & related terminologies.

LIMS whitepaper underlining the evolution of LIMS, different types of LIMS architecture, benefits and risks of cloud computing and how SaaS models leverage cloud technology to maximize ROI by minimizing TCO.

eTrueNorth, the U.S.-based healthcare technology solution provider for CLIA-Waived laboratories, announced today that they have signed an agreement with Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. The eTrueNorth ePOCT Suite™ of solutions will immediately begin to be integrated at Walmart and Sam’s Club.

Thermo Fisher Scientific, the world leader in serving science, announced today that The Scientist magazine named two of its CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing tools among the Top 10 Innovations of 2016. The Invitrogen LentiArray CRISPR libraries, introduced in September 2016, ranked #5, while the GeneArt Platinum Cas9 Nuclease earned the #10 spot on the list.

DeepRadiology, a deep learning artificial intelligence medical startup is proud to announce the world's first fully autonomous system for medical image interpretation. The system is able to produce final interpretations and reporting on medical imaging studies without the need for a radiologist.