March 2, 2011 - Advantages of a Data Warehouse
When it comes to behavior, I’m a conservationist and minimalist: I sincerely dislike having to do anything extra or wasted. For example, I dislike taking stairs one at a time because it’s too slow. I never print out anything; it’s a waste of paper that I’ll eventually throw away anyhow. I frequently run across parking lots because I can’t stand the time wasted between walking out a door and arriving at my car. So why would I advocate using a data warehouse as the basis for business intelligence and decision support? Why not get data directly from operational systems and skip the extra system?February 24, 2011 - Laboratory Informatics Strategy, Part 1: Down the Rabbit-Hole…Again
At the very beginning of Lewis Carroll’s classic book, “Alice in Wonderland”, Alice follows the March Hare down the rabbit-hole without a thought as to why she was doing it or how she would ever get out again. She simply jumps in feet first and, as we learn by reading the rest of the book, gets herself into a lot of trouble while trying to find her way home.February 24, 2011 - How to Choose an Application Server
Choosing an application server on which to run your LabVantage software is not so much different than buying anything else…a car, let’s say. You need to decide which features are important to you, how much money you have to spend, the level of dealer support you expect, options for repair, the required level of ongoing maintenance, etc.February 12, 2011 - DIY Cloud-in-a-Box, Part 2
by: John H. Jones, President – LabLynx, Inc.
In my last blog posting, DIY Cloud-in-a- Box, Part 1, I introduced you to the concept of the Private Cloud and the series of articles that will chronical my journey towards the development of a private cloud that can be installed within your own organization or can be hosted in an external datacenter. Now we continue on with Part 2.
February 8, 2011 - I Would Like to Become a Medical Expert… Any Strategies on Why I Should Be MD, MD/PhD or PhD?
Well.. .my idea is always that prior you decide to set yourself on one of these paths do a little clinical shadowing plus some lab research.February 8, 2011 - Consolidated LIMS Discussions
There are a number of good LIMS discussion groups on Linkedin. This is a consolidated list of all the latest discussions from the best of the best LIMS discussion groups.January 28, 2011 - Free 2011 LIMS Buyer's Guide with price lists of some of the most popular LIMS products
The Laboratory Informatics Institute is pleased to announce the coming release of the 2011 LIMS Buyer's Guide. This guide is unique in the LIMS industry by providing a side-by-side comparison of the most popular LIMS products on the market along with complete pricing information.January 24, 2011 - DIY Cloud-in-a-Box, Part 1
Here at LabLynx, we have been providing our webLIMS.com product as a SaaS/Cloud based LIMS for the past 2 years. This has been a highly successful product offering for not only new customers but long time existing customers have started switching to our Cloud services over hosting the LIMS in their own internal IT infrastructure. As part of our continued R&D efforts in Cloud Computing, I have decided to use my LIMS Journal Blog to chronicle a new experiment in Cloud Computing. It will be called “DIY (do-it-yourself) Cloud-in-a-Box”. The research in this area has already been going on for the past 6 months and there has been tons of failures and false starts with this experiment and so I want to spare everyone that pain by documenting our successes and failures from this point forward.January 14, 2011 - eLabInventory: Online Inventory Management System
eLabInventory is a an online Inventory Managment System (IMS) designed for life science research laboratories. With this application you can organize, store and share information about all samples and chemicals in an online database that is accesible through our intuitive webinterface.
November 17, 2010 - Potential Big Advancement In Low Cost Sequencing
I am amazed almost weekly with the pace of advancements in new technology, and particularly in sequencing technology. It wasn't that long ago that the thinking was that to get to the magical $1,000 genome would take perhaps a decade or more. But since then new advancements in platforms such as Ion Torrent's array based sequencer, Illumina's Genome Analyzer, Roche's 454, the ABI family of sequencers ;and the new PacBio sequencer are advancing at such a rate that the cost is already approaching $10,000.November 15, 2010 - Reaping the Benefits of a Cost-Effective Lab Management System Delivered Over the Internet
The Challenge – Affordable Laboratory Management Software for Labs of Any Size While laboratory data management technology has evolved over the past 25 years from simple data collection methods to the current enterprise-level data management and integrated LIMS solutions, too many of the thousands of laboratories around the world are still using manual processes or simple tools like spreadsheets to manage the complexities of laboratory workflow, sample management and data collection.…
October 9, 2010 - LIMSforum.com becomes the industry’s largest user’s group for LIMS & Laboratory Informatics with over 10,000 members
I want to thank all of the members of the Laboratory Informatics Institute who have helped spread the word about www.limsforum.com to help drive the membership in this Internationally based user’s group. Our membership is now at over 10,000 and we are gaining over 1,000 new members per month.October 4, 2010 - How much is that doggie (LIMS) in the window?
If you have ever had to purchase a LIMS, you know what a chore it can be. First there are over 100 LIMS vendors and products to choose from; you have to sort through all those vendors and products and try to find a small, manageable group that can meet your functional and business needs and if that is not hard enough, the fun really begins when you ask… “How much is that LIMS in the window?”
September 5, 2010 - The VirtuLIMS Project – A collaborative internship program of Poitiers University, The Laboratory Informatics Institute and LabLynx, Inc.
Poitiers University in France had contacted LabLynx, Inc. enquiring about a partnership of some kind where they could have a LIMS to use for teaching purposes. LabLynx, having its webLIMS hosted Software as a Service product readily deployable online, provided its ELab LIMS to Poitiers free of charge, along with help and support in working with it. This gave students the unique opportunity to learn about laboratory informatics first hand. After a successful semester, Claude Goldszmidt at Poitiers requested an internship in Atlanta for one of their students, Aymeric Sarrazin.August 26, 2010 - Standardization of Thermo Scientific Nautilus LIMS at Wockhardt UK Delivers Improved Laboratory Efficiencies and GMP Compliance
Wockhardt UK is a diverse pharmaceuticals company created from the merger of CP Pharmaceuticals and the Wallis Laboratory. Its FDA-approved manufacturing facility adopted a laboratory information management system (LIMS) as part of its continuous focus on quality. The company selected Thermo Scientific Nautilus LIMS(TM) to improve efficiencies and ensure GMP compliance within its UK-based manufacturing facility.August 11, 2010 - Use of Ultrahigh Pressure on the Rise…Decades-Old Technology Being Rediscovered to Bolster Proteomics Research
Article posted in GEN written by, K. John Morrow Jr., Ph.D. on August 1, 2010;http://bit.ly/cRaCT5
Over the course of his distinguished career, Nobel Prize winner Percy Bridgman, Ph.D., investigated the behavior of materials under elevated hydrostatic pressure. These studies, for which he designed his own high-pressure equipment, included the thermodynamic effect of pressure on proteins and other biological substances.
Researchers recently met to discuss the use of ultrahigh pressure in biotech-related studies at a symposium held at Harvard Medical School and co-hosted by the Harvard Catalyst—Laboratory for Innovative Translational Technologies, Harvard Catalyst Central Laboratory, and by the Proteomics Resource of the Harvard School of Public Health. The hosting of this event was apropos as Dr. Bridgman was a professor at Harvard from 1908 to 1954.
July 30, 2010 - Thermo Scientific CONNECTS at GPSG Brazil Delivers Enterprise-Level Productivity Linking Laboratories to ERP
The Global Pharmaceutical Supply Group (GPSG) Brazil is an APILA unit of Janssen-Cilag Farmacêutica Ltda., (www.janssen-cilag.com.br) located in São Paulo, Brazil. Janssen-Cilag is one of the world’s leading research-based pharmaceutical companies specializing in pain management and fungal disease. Janssen-Cilag is a member of the Johnson & Johnson family of companies; the world’s largest personal care and health products manufacturer with worldwide annual sales totaling $63.7 billion.GPSG Brazil has adopted a comprehensive enterprise integration solution to streamline business processes. The adoption of Thermo Scientific CONNECTS at GPSG consists of laboratory instrumentation and informatics software, enterprise systems and document management tools to provide a fully integrated pharmaceutical manufacturing environment. Standardization on Thermo Scientific LIMS and Atlas CDS has allowed GPSG to focus on product quality in its Brazil facility.
