Everyone feels lucky on St. Patrick’s Day (unless you’re an island-dwelling snake). It takes wisdom, however, to recognize that “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.” So, today is your lucky day; this is your opportunity to learn what preparation you need to undertake a successful
LIMS selection process. It’s our business to impress upon you, in plain English, the wisdom of working with a consultant in making your LIMS selection.
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In today’s global scientific community, laboratories worldwide are recognizing the importance and necessity of implementing a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS). The implementation of a LIMS provides a plethora of advantages to laboratories, including the ability to eliminate paper records, reduce human error, increase precision, streamline data management, improve efficiency, and automate processes.
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When a US election season is in full swing or gas prices at the pumps start to rise, the discussions among partisan politicians and constituents alike turn to the phrase “energy independence.” But what does energy independence mean, and is it reasonable to expect the United States to ever achieve it?
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The Biorepository Solution is an implementation and validation accelerator which uses industry-standard features, expertise, and experience to expedite return on investment and reduce project risk.
Learn more about how Thermo Scientific SampleManager software provides industry-leading laboratory, process, and data management capabilities, with the foundation to track and manage samples securely.
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AWS (Amazon Web Services) brings significant benefits to QLIMS customers by providing a secure and scalable cloud-based infrastructure for comprehensive laboratory data management. With AWS, QLIMS users can enjoy easy access to their data from anywhere, powerful computing resources for data processing and a range of security and compliance features to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of their data.
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Data visualization is a crucial element of any life science work, and it is especially important in communicating the work coming out of labs. The ability to explore and mine complex datasets is essential for communicating meaningful conclusions. Life sciences researchers rely on a variety of data visualization tools to help them analyze and interpret their data, including graphs, charts, and other more complex digital representations like artificial neural networks (ANN) and machine learning (ML). In this blog post, we’ll discuss four common data visualization techniques.
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Starting and operating a laboratory is a vast and challenging undertaking. The right tools and equipment for a laboratory's purpose are essential to the operation. But there is no instrument more valuable than a well-designed laboratory information management system (LIMS) customized to fit your lab's unique workflows and data management procedures.
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Metallurgy is a branch of science and technology concerned with the properties of metals and their production and purification. Nearly every item you use contains metal components that have been tested and approved by a metallurgical lab. LabLynx understands the needs of a metallurgy lab and offers a LIMS software solution that adapts to each lab’s unique practices.
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Today Pharmacovigilance has gone through what some would call a revolution. That’s due in large part to the technology that companies are implementing within their safety systems. Many companies are assessing their case intake system. We at Astrix are assisting many companies with their projects and whether it’s helping them with their RFP’s, or with their implementations.
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The way you capture and store scientific data and how you manage all the elements of the lab, is crucial to advancing research and driving quality products. A LIMS solution can help streamline lab processes and provide quality control in a fully validated environment, to support the growth of your lab business.
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GxP is a general abbreviation for the "Good Practice" quality guidelines and regulations. The “G” stands for Good "x" stands for various fields, including the pharmaceutical, life-sciences, agricultural, clinical, laboratory, manufacturing and food industries. The purpose of the guidelines is to ensure that the regulated organizations comply with the standard processes of various functions.
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You’ve finally decided to move on from your current job and accept a new job offer. Congratulations! Now comes the hard part—you need to tell your boss. Surprisingly, they come back with a counteroffer. A counteroffer from your current employer can be tempting, especially if it includes a higher salary or other incentives. However, there are some important considerations to keep in mind before accepting the offer.
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Testing in the food and beverage industry has been primarily centered on detecting microbial and chemical contaminants. These types of tests are vital to the general consumer, as these contaminants can cause illness outbreaks if not detected promptly. However, in the last two decades, food safety and testing labs find themselves not only testing for contaminants but also for food allergens.
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There are many benefits of implementing an end-to-end Regulatory Information Management (RIM) system including the impact on regulatory compliance, speed to market, and revenue. A robust RIM solution can optimize collaboration and streamlined processes driving higher quality work, faster. However, to reap these benefits, organizations need to ensure they have a strategy in place as they embark on this journey.
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L7 Informatics Inc. is excited to unveil the L7|HUB, a groundbreaking application that is set to revolutionize the way scientists collaborate and share digital scientific content, including data models, instrument connectors, manufacturing recipes, workflows, and many more.
Current systems often fall short when it comes to collaboration and managing and sharing digital scientific content in a robust and repeatable manner. The L7|HUB changes that by providing scientists with an easy way to collaborate and share digital scientific content with their peers, colleagues, and trading partners.
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Although
laboratory information management software (LIMS) automatically brings plenty of unique benefits to laboratories, like any technology, they become obsolete over time. Inevitably, a better version of it will be made available after multiple iterations, which will make it necessary to upgrade it in the future.
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A Bold Vision For a Significant Mission:
Interviewer: You’ve shared a lot about your philosophy and core values behind developing and evolving your QLIMS into Version 9. If you were to summarize this vision in one sentence, what would be your mission statement?
Jonathan: Our mission is to bring innovation to the scientific community that empowers every scientist to improve outcomes for humanity for a better life.
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Only three in ten scientists worldwide are women. Despite making up about 50 percent of college students in science disciplines, women are underrepresented in technical roles in industry and research, and an even smaller number of women hold leadership and management roles such as lab managers.
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A truly digitally enabled environment offers up the potential for generating new revenue streams, and enabling leaner, more intelligent business models.
Learn more about how Thermo Fisher Scientific is investing in digital capabilities and technologies that support labs of today and of the future, and the critical areas you should focus on to develop and maintain the necessary infrastructure for a digitally transformed lab.
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Logilab ELN is a generic and dependable Laboratory Notebook application software, designed and developed by Agaram Technologies. It provides a fully configurable sheet template with a test-based workflow design to meet the needs of QA/QC and R&D operations for industries including pharmaceutical, life sciences, biopharmaceutical, chemical, petrochemical, environmental, food, feed, milling, and dairy.
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