May 10, 2017 - Autoscribe Demonstrates New Product Offerings at PITTCON 2017

Samuel Clark, Manager of North American Sales, discusses the unique aspects of Matrix Gemini LIMS and how each system can be configured to suit each users needs using simple to use graphical tools rather than software customization.

May 3, 2017 - AACR 2017! Research Propelling Cancer Prevention and Cures

We are back from exhibiting at AACR 2017 and it was such a wonderful experience! We showcased CloudLIMS Lite and BioTracer®, our laboratory automation software products to over 21,000 participants. We also presented a poster entitled "Accelerating clinical research using cloud technology".

May 1, 2017 - Can Upgrading to LabWare 7 Solve Life's Problems?

Is your LabWare implementation giving you headaches? Upgrading to LabWare 7 is a great opportunity to take advantage of a trove of new features and evaluate what LIMS can do for your lab.

April 26, 2017 - Cloud Technology to Enable and Accelerate Clinical Data Management in Biobanking

Clinical research and pathology laboratories need to expedite research in order to provide better, faster and innovative treatments to patients. To achieve this objective, efficient clinical data management solutions are required that can minimize the time taken for patient care biobanking, and for drug research—including development and commercialization.

April 24, 2017 - 8 Principles for successful LIMS Implementation

Learn the key principles to successfully implement a LIMS the right way the first time

April 19, 2017 - Tracking Instrument Maintenance and Repairs within LIMS

Ask any seasoned analyst in a laboratory about the maintenance and repairs on a particular instrument they work on and they can speak volumes.

April 19, 2017 - Harnessing Cloud Technology for Biobank Informatics in the Age of Precision Medicine

In this era of precision medicine, biobanks play a very crucial role in accelerating the discovery and development of new drugs. The primary goal of a biobank is to store and manage massive volume of clinical, molecular and patient data generated from high-throughput methods such as microarray and next-generation sequencing.

April 17, 2017 - The LIMS Battle: IT vs. "The Lab"

This classic battle between IT and "The Lab" is usually fought on several fronts, and if not brought under control, can easily cause your LIMS project to falter.

April 12, 2017 - Accelerating Clinical Research Using Cloud Technology

With the aim of helping individuals overcome health issues, clinical research is an important field where doctors, drug experts and biologists work together to unravel the causative factors and suitable treatment plans for the most critical health problems. The major pitfall to clinical research is that it is both time consuming and costly.

March 28, 2017 - Pittcon 2017 – Where Did Everybody Go?

The time of the massive conference/tradeshow is gone and it will not likely return. And even though we realize this intellectually, it is always jarring to go to Pittcon and see its diminished state.

March 22, 2017 - Keeping a LIMS up to date with State and Federal EPA regulations

A LIMS is a great and almost necessary tool in any modern day environmental laboratory, whether commercial, state or municipal. In a highly regulated community, the LIMS, like everything else in the laboratory, must evolve. Some evolutions are complex, however, 99% of them are very simple and in many ways, mostly a matter of proper record keeping.

March 15, 2017 - LIMS in academics, then and now

I recently read, or I should say reread, an article written by Douglas Perry for the American Chemical Society in Today’s Chemist at Work titled “LIMS in the academic world” (https://pubs.acs.org/subscribe/archive/tcaw/11/i01/html/01comp.html). The article was published in January of 2002. Almost exactly fifteen years later, most of the well discussed points are still valid. LIMS has not truly found a home in academic settings despite the fact it is rare to see an operating commercial laboratory in any business sector without some sort of LIMS in place today.

March 10, 2017 - Laboratory Informatics Implementation Planning – Don't Forget!

Strong project management is very important to the success of a laboratory informatics system deployment, but even the most experienced IT project managers can overlook tasks that are specific to laboratory informatics systems.

March 1, 2017 - Economics and Sustainability in Biobanking – Dr. Jim Vaught

Biobanks come in many different sizes and serve various important purposes, including supporting basic, epidemiologic and clinical research. Biobanks are recognized as critical resources in the advancement of personalized or precision medicine.

For complete article, please visit: https://cloudlims.com/blog/economics-and-sustainability-in-biobanking.html

February 28, 2017 - Overcome Validation Challenges through Proper Planning

Let’s face it, if we don’t know where we are going, then how will we know when we have arrived? The same concept applies to Computer System Validation.

February 15, 2017 - Enhancing Laboratory Efficiency Using Cost Effective LIMS for Biobanks and Testing Laboratories

Modern day labs are under constant pressure to reduce expenses, improvise lab efficiency and constantly enhance the quality of results. To begin with, it is important to understand what lab efficiency exactly means. In simple terms, lab efficiency is all about how a lab effectively manages time and available resources to improvise data quality, eliminate manual errors, improve laboratory results turnaround time, and streamline lab operations. Many labs are interested in improvising their lab efficiency; however, are not keen to invest in cost-intensive Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) to manage their laboratory data.

February 15, 2017 - A hidden benefit within a LIMS: Human Resource information for laboratory personnel

Many of the broader laboratory based benefits of LIMS are well known: LIMS track samples from entry into the laboratory (in some cases even the field data and collection) to final analysis and disposal; LIMS track and document reagent and standards usage within the laboratory; LIMS generate reports and electronic data deliverables (EDDs). However, one important and often overlooked feature is that LIMS can also track and record human resource (HR) information.

February 14, 2017 - 10 Ways LIMS Can Automate Your Lab

Increasing productivity and effectiveness can be addressed in a number of ways within a LIMS, the ability of the LIMS to automate manual processes, procedures, and tasks is by far the largest source of these improvements.

January 31, 2017 - Clearing the Muddy Water: How LabWare Visual Workflows can Win Over Your Users

The difficulty and complexity of the LIMS interface can be so overwhelming that a user never gets to realize the amazing things a LIMS can do to make their work life easier.

January 25, 2017 - SCIFIO: An extensible framework to support scientific image formats

In this short paper published in December 2016, Hiner et al. of the University of Wisconsin at Madison demonstrate their open-source library SCIFIO (SCientific Image Format Input and Output). Built on inspiration from the Bio-Formats library for microscopy image data, SCIFIO attempts to act as “a domain-independent image I/O framework enabling seamless and extensible translation between image metadata models.” Rather than fight with the difficulties of repeating experiments based on data in proprietary formats, SCIFIO’s open-source nature help with reproducibility of research results and proves “capable of adapting to the demands of scientific imaging analysis.”