Posted on December 3, 2015
By CSols Inc.
Blog
Have you ever been working on the Computer System Validation (CSV) of a Laboratory System and hit a brick wall? After struggling with the system on your own and contacting the vendor, it is soon determined that an alternate solution must be found in order to meet the regulations.
Posted on December 3, 2015
By Corinne Jones
Newsletter
December 03, 2015 Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update Volume 13, Issue 46 In This Issue Articles Why You Should Interface Your Instruments to LIMS Why is it important to interface your instruments to your LIMS? What instruments CAN be interfaced? If it’s so important, how come so many laboratories still haven’t done so? Bid / RFP / RFI Opportunities DUE: DECEMBER 21, 2015 - Lab Information Management System Request for Proposal for a Lab Information Management System for the City of Saskatoon - Water and Environmental Labs DUE: DECEMBER 14, 2015 - Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) Solutions Sources Sought Notice…
Posted on December 2, 2015
By John Jones
Journal articles
In this 2014 article published in
BMC Bioinformatics, Dander et al., not content with the disparity among existing cancer treatment and bioinformatics platforms, discussed the results of creating Personalized Oncology Suite (POS). The web-based, scalable software system "integrates clinical data, NGS data and whole-slide bioimages from tissue sections" and, as the team concludes, "can be used not only in the context of cancer immunology but also in other studies in which NGS data and images of tissue sections are generated."
Posted on November 24, 2015
By John Jones
Journal articles
Munkhdalai et al. express their belief that named entity recognition (NER) is vital to future text mining efforts in the biochemical sciences in this 2015 paper published in
Journal of Cheminformatics. As such, the researchers set about to create a scalable biomedical NER system utilizing natural language processing (NLP) tasks. The group concluded that their work has yielded a well-performing "integrated system that can be applied for chemical and drug NER or biomedical NER."
Posted on November 19, 2015
By Corinne Jones
Newsletter
November 19, 2015 Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update Volume 13, Issue 45 In This Issue Articles Why You Should Interface Your Instruments to LIMS Why is it important to interface your instruments to your LIMS? What instruments CAN be interfaced? If it’s so important, how come so many laboratories still haven’t done so? Bid / RFP / RFI Opportunities DUE December 10, 2015: Request for Response - Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS3) The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, through the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP), is soliciting bids for the acquisition of…
Posted on November 17, 2015
By John Jones
Journal articles
In this 2015 open-access research paper published in
PeerJ Computer Science, Ganzinger and Knaup present a reference model for developing information technology infrastructure for biomedical research networks. The researchers found that the model to be useful when "used by research networks as a basis for a resource efficient acquisition of their project specific requirements."
Posted on November 16, 2015
By CSols Inc.
Blog
Why is it important to interface your instruments to your LIMS? What instruments CAN be interfaced? If it’s so important, how come so many laboratories still haven’t done so?
Posted on November 14, 2015
By John Jones
Journal articles
In 2013, Barker et al. concluded their testing of a home-grown open-access undergraduate bioinformatics course called
4273π Bioinformatics for Biologists. Happy with the results of their course, they group published a paper about it in
BMC Bioinformatics, concluding their Raspberry Pi-based "4273
π [operating system] is a means to teach bioinformatics, including systems administration tasks, to undergraduates at low cost."
Posted on November 14, 2015
By John Jones
Journal articles
The topic of teaching methodologies in bioinformatics at the pre-university level is brought up by Barker et al. in this 2015 journal article published in the
International Journal of STEM Education. Using Rasperry Pi and 4273
π in their implementation, the group found "our preliminary study supports the feasibility of bringing university-level, practical bioinformatics activities to school pupils."
Posted on November 14, 2015
By John Jones
Journal articles
Zheng et al. "developed an online machine learning based information extraction system called IDEAL-X" in 2015. They published the results of their experience in the
Journal of Pathology Informatics, concluding "[b]y combining iterative online learning and adaptive controlled vocabularies, IDEAL-X can deliver highly adaptive and accurate data extraction to support patient search."
Posted on November 14, 2015
By John Jones
Journal articles
This 2014 article published by
JMIR Medical Informatics sees Kruse et al. attempting to identify internal and external factors that affect health information technology (HIT) adoption. The group concludes that "[c]ommonalities exist in the literature for internal organizational and external environmental factors associated with the adoption of the EHR and/or CPOE."
Posted on November 11, 2015
By Corinne Jones
Newsletter
November 11, 2015 Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update Volume 13, Issue 44 In This Issue Articles Does a LIMS really Benefit Management more than Scientists? It is surprising how often we hear scientists/lab technicians claiming that the LIMS only benefits Management. Why do they believe this and how can this belief be corrected in order to attain a successful LIMS project? Bid / RFP / RFI Opportunities DUE December 10, 2015: Request for Response - Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS3) The Commonwealth of Massachusetts, through the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection…
