May 26, 2007 - LIMS for Medical Examiner
The ideal LIMS for Medical Examiners
The following demonstration provides details on 11 scenarios of use of LIMS in Forensic Medical Examiner offices. Click Here to view the demonstration. (Audio Speakers highly recommended)
May 19, 2007 - Water / Waste Water Blog
Here is a blog that might be of interest to the Water, Wastewater readers.May 12, 2007 - The Acronym Junkie
Do you know any people like this...?May 12, 2007 - 10 Elements of the ideal LIMS
Just like all of the rest of
creation, an ideal Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) is made
up of some essential elements. The LIMS of today is really a full enterprise
management system, not just the sample tracking application of yesteryear.
Accordingly, it must be made up of all of the right elements so that it provides
your laboratory alchemists with gold, not lead..
May 7, 2007 - XML Reporting in SQL*LIMS
For several years my boss, Brian, has been telling me that the perfect solution for a LIMS Certificate of Analysis report would use a solid data extraction algorithm and a flexible XML output. The idea has always sounded interesting to me, except for the fact that the SQL*LIMS product doesn’t include the technology to do such a thing…until now. Today’s article describes how to customize SQL*LIMS and Oracle Reports to send data to XML, and how to convert that XML output to PDF.May 1, 2007 - Statistical Quality Control for the Food Industry
In reviewing this book on Google recently, I found it to have a number of good concepts to incorporate into LIMS for the F&B industry. Given the current news on food contamination (on purpose, I might add), none of these concepts will help protect our food supply if food ingredients are going to consist of plastic (melamine). Statistical Quality Control can let you have a better quality process for killing pets! Excuse my attitude concerning this but something must change in the food industry.April 29, 2007 - Help Save Internet Radio – It is in grave danger!
The SaveNetRadio Coalition
The future of Internet radio is in immediate danger. Royalty rates for webcasters have been drastically increased by a recent ruling and are due to go into effect on May 15 (retroactive to Jan 1, 2006!). If the increased rates remain unchanged, the majority of webcasters will go bankrupt and silent on this date. Internet radio needs your help! H.R. 2060, The Internet Radio Equality Act was introduced by Representatives Jay Inslee (D-WA) and Donald Manzullo (R-IL ) to save the Internet radio industry. Please call your congressperson to ask them to co-sponsor H.R. 2060 by clicking below.
April 28, 2007 - 10 Elements of the Ideal LIMS
For a 15 Minute 
overview
of the 10 elements of the ideal LIMS, click here.
April 4, 2007 - BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) Podcasts
The modern LIMS should be built on a Service Oriented Architecture and take advantage of BPEL for designing and executing laboratory workflow processes. This podcast series provides an informative and entertaining update to key development in both SOA and BPEL.March 12, 2007 - Diet LIMS for Small Labs
“Small is beautiful” is a popular quote. But did you know that being small in business is double jeopardy? Of course, most of us know. Being small in the laboratory business is no different. There is always threat from the large competing labs. The larger labs constantly push their smaller rivals with velocities sufficient enough to drive them out from the realms of profitability and eventually, even beyond the threshold of existence.March 11, 2007 - Data Migration
As the IT industry matures, companies are starting to realize the benefits of having a standardized approach to IT. This includes the use of common applications within a business sector. These applications can be a new application entirely for the company or an upgrade of one of a number of existing products in place. When a company decides to go down the path of standardization there are a number of things that need to be considered. One of the most important issues that a company needs to consider is the question of what to do with legacy data. Depending on the type of application, legacy data may or may not be required. In the LIMS world, foreseeable situations exist where the answer to the legacy data question is both! The question is then – migrate the data to the new system or warehouse the data? I will explain some of the considerations that should come into play when making this decision.March 6, 2007 - LIMS and Politics, not a good mix
Florida Lab Manager Files Whistleblower Complaint! The state scientist in the middle of controversy about how polluted the waters of South Florida are today filed a whistleblower complaint, according to documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).February 25, 2007 - Which LIMS implementation process is right for you?
Laboratories not only have different functional needs that their LIMS solution must meet but they also have system implementation needs that can have a profound affect on the success of the LIMS implementation.
Even if you succeed in choosing the right LIMS for your lab, the implementation process can make the difference between success and failure. There are basically 3 types of implementation processes (Packaged, Collaborative, Turn-key). Let’s rank them from the least expensive to the most expensive processes.
February 19, 2007 - Enterprise Software for the Pharmaceutical Laboratory
February 19, 2007 - Knowledge Jolt – Topics covering 21 CFR part 11
A consultants blog covering areas of 21 CFR part 11.February 8, 2007 - LABLynx, the premier LIMS and Laboratory Informatics Solutions company
LABLynx, Inc. was the first Laboratory Informatics provider to deliver a true browser-based Laboratory Information Management Solution in 1997. LABLynx, Inc. was incorporated as an independently owned and operated software company in July 2000. LABLynx was once a product division of a diversified IT consulting company purchased by a group of investors experienced in both LIMS and Information Technology Management. The core LABLynx team has combined software development and laboratory management experience of over 75 man years invested in the initial release of the LABLynx ELab LIMS.January 17, 2007 - The Indiana University School of Informatics News
The Informatics and Communications Technology Complex at IUPUI is home to three schools and lots of exciting technology. Check out the latest news.January 16, 2007 - Bug Reproduction
Some would have you believe that if you want to reproduce bugs within your system, all you have to do is write it in C++. This cartoon would seem to indicate that Java is the equivalent of contraception. Personally, I think it takes a human to introduce a bug and the programming language is simply a tool, not a solution.January 16, 2007 - PLoS Computational Biology
PLoS Computational Biology (eISSN 1553-7358, ISSN 1553-734X) is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal published monthly by the Public Library of Science (PLoS) in association with the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).
PLoS Computational Biology is run by an international Editorial Board, headed by the Editor-in-Chief, Philip E. Bourne (University of California, San Diego, USA).
