Visualizing the quality of partially accruing data for use in decision making
The state of data management across the sciences is getting increasingly complex as data stores build up, and the world of public health is no less affected. Making sense of data is one portion of management, but quality analysis is also an important but slightly understated aspect as well. This 2015 paper by Eaton et al. explains a series of "data quality tools developed to gain insight into the data quality problems associated with these data." The group concludes "our key insight was the need to assess temporal patterns in the data in terms of accrual lag."
The Best ELN – Revealed!
A quick, informal count of the ELN vendors shows grated than 50 commercial vendors with an additional half dozen of so Open Source solutions being ofered. With such a broad choice in ELNs the question of which is the best ELN is continually being raised.Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 14, Issue 19
May 11, 2016 Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update Volume 14, Issue 19 In This Issue Event Focus MAY 17 - 20, 2016: [inform] 2016 May 17 -20, 2016 | Lisbon, Portugal | [inform] 2016 [inform] 2016 is Waters Premier Informatics Users’ Conference for communicating and collaborating directly with Waters’ software partners and users in the pharmaceutical, environmental, food and chemical industries. The agenda features innovative solutions for laboratory data management. Learn how you can maximize the value of your Waters' software. JUNE 27-29, 2016: High-Content Screening Conference This Conference will gather researchers, academics and industry professionals working in High-Content Screening to…Digital pathology and anatomic pathology laboratory information system integration to support digital pathology sign-out
What happens when you integrate a digital pathology system (DPS) with an anatomical pathology laboratory information system (APLIS)? In the case of Guo et al. and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, "[t]he integration streamlined our digital sign-out workflow, diminished the potential for human error related to matching slides, and improved the sign-out experience for pathologists." This paper, published in Journal of Pathology Informatics in 2016, describes their line of thinking, integration plans, and final results.
A polyglot approach to bioinformatics data integration: A phylogenetic analysis of HIV-1
In this 2016 paper published in Evolutionary Bioinformatics, Reisman et al. discuss a polyglot approach "involving multiple languages, libraries, and persistence mechanisms" towards managing genomic sequence data. Using a NoSQL and RESTful web service approach, the team tested their developed pipeline on an evolutionary study of HIV-1. They conclude that " the case study highlights the abilities of the tool," and "although utilized for the investigation of a virus here, the approach can be applied to any species of interest."
White Paper – Data Integrity
Data integrity, an area of increasing priority in today’s laboratory world and "The focus area" when it comes to regulatory compliance such as 21 CFR Part 11 and Eudralex Annex 11. Considering the number of warning letters from USFDA and other such regulatory bodies issued to pharmaceutical and medical devices manufacturers across the globe, Data integrity is the "Buzz word" intoday’s audit.Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 14, Issue 18
May 04, 2016 Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update Volume 14, Issue 18 In This Issue Event Focus MAY 17 - 20, 2016: [inform] 2016 May 17 -20, 2016 | Lisbon, Portugal | [inform] 2016 [inform] 2016 is Waters Premier Informatics Users’ Conference for communicating and collaborating directly with Waters’ software partners and users in the pharmaceutical, environmental, food and chemical industries. The agenda features innovative solutions for laboratory data management. Learn how you can maximize the value of your Waters' software. Webcast Focus Translating Big Data into Therapies, Diagnostics, and New Insights into Disease Webinar - May 24th - 1 pm…Integrating the Lab and SAP QM: Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
So you've decided to integrate your lab data and information management system with SAP QM to support both the lab and manufacturing, but how do you go about doing that?LiMSjournal – 2016 Winter Edition, Peer Reviewed LIMS papers and articles ready for download
LiMSjournal - 2016 Winter Edition, Peer Reviewed LIMS papers and articles ready for download
The LiMSbook has posted the Winter 2016 Edition of the peer reviewed LIMS Journal articles. There were 11 comprehensive articles published in this issue of the journal.
The Journal is of course free and open access and is published quarterly with great educational articles covering informatics topics for the Laboratory, Science & Healthcare. Please download your own copy or you can login with your Linkedin account and read the journal on-line:
http://www.limsbook.com/limsjournal-winter-2016-volume-2-issue-1/
Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 14, Issue 17
April 27, 2016 Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update Volume 14, Issue 17 In This Issue Webcast Focus Multi-site LIMS Harmonization Webinar - April 28th - 10am EDT / 3pm BST / 4pm CET Ensuring that a centrally-served, browser-accessed LIMS is used to its fullest potential in a multi-site deployment requires a systematic harmonization across all laboratory enterprise sites. This webinar will explore the process for capturing current state workflows and projecting future state improvements and harmonization across distributed locations and work groups. The LIMS Book LiMSjournal - 2016 Winter Edition, Peer Reviewed LIMS papers and articles ready for download LiMSjournal -…The systems biology format converter
Rodriguez et al. found that when converting computational models from one format to another, while many tools exist, they tend not to be very interoperable and can often be redundant. Additionally, they can be unmaintained or left abandoned. The researchers saw a need for a modular, open-source software system "to support rapid implementation and integration of new converters" in a more collaboratory way. They developed the System Biology Format Converter (SBFC), a Java-based tool that, per their conclusion, "helps computational biologists to process or visualise their models using different software tools, and software developers to implement format conversion."
