The Future-Ready ELN: A Strategic Guide to Selecting the Right ELN System for Life Sciences

With 71% of ELN initiatives failing to realize users’ objectives, selecting the right system requires more than tactical software acquisition. A vendor-agnostic framework helps organizations evaluate interoperability, scalability, and regulatory rigor while aligning scientific informatics with business objectives and building a unified digital strategy for long-term ROI.[Read More]

Top 10 Signals Your Lab Is NOT Ready for AI

The post identifies 10 warning signs that a laboratory is not ready for AI, including biased data, paper-based workflows, siloed systems, inconsistent naming, and weak leadership support. It also outlines four steps labs can take to build a FAIR-compliant, AI-ready informatics foundation.[Read More]

Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 24, Issue 37

September 14, 2026
Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update

Volume 24, Issue 37

In This Issue

Featured Books

The Ultimate Guide to Smarter Sample Management

Sample management is invisible until it fails, and then lost samples, labeling errors and disorganized storage slow everything down.

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Accelerating Validation in Biopharma: How AI Transforms ELN Compliance and PQ Execution

AI is transforming Computer System Validation in biopharmaceutical R&D by accelerating documentation and reducing repetitive work. But automation alone cannot ensure compliance. This guide explores how organizations can use AI to streamline validation while preserving human oversight, data integrity, reproducibility, and scalability.[Read More]

Laboratory Informatics: Five Kinds of Data, Three Decisions

Laboratory informatics is not a single product or platform. It encompasses five types of laboratory data, each requiring appropriate ownership and management. This guide helps laboratories identify data gaps, understand system boundaries, evaluate audit trail obligations, and determine which capabilities are needed to build a practical LIMS shortlist.[Read More]

WebLab: the Next Generation LIMS

Legacy LIMS can slow processes, delay projects, and limit agility. WebLab takes a different approach. Combining a modern user experience with a cloud-ready, API-based architecture, it connects laboratory instruments, devices, and business systems seamlessly. Built-in support for ALCOA+, traceability, and 21 CFR Part 11 helps laboratories stay compliant while improving efficiency and visibility.[Read More]

The LIMS Comparison Guide / Navigating the LIMS Landscape

Choosing the right LIMS requires balancing laboratory workflows, IT requirements, compliance, AI readiness, budget, and long-term ROI. This ebook provides a practical roadmap with vendor evaluations, user reviews, and comparison matrices to help selection teams identify the solution that best fits their requirements.[Read More]

Common Data Integrity Issues in Labs: A Strategic Analysis for Life Science Leaders

FDA scrutiny of laboratory data integrity is intensifying as documentation failures, legacy systems, and hybrid workflows create growing compliance risks. This strategic analysis examines FDA and MHRA expectations and provides a roadmap to a compliant-by-design informatics architecture that strengthens reliability and reduces regulatory risk.[Read More]

LIMS vs ELN: Converged on Features, Not on the Unit of Work

A LIMS is built around the sample, an ELN around the experiment, and every shared feature sits on one of those two spines. A 2017 survey synthesis found 98 percent awareness of electronic notebooks against 11 percent use, with recurring cost the barrier. Many labs need both; the expensive mistake is expecting one to do the other's job.[Read More]

LIS vs LIMS: Two Words, Four Desks, One Expensive Mistake

LIS and LIMS are not two names for one system. An LIS is built around a patient, a requisition and an accession number under CLIA. A LIMS is built around a sample, a client and a holding time under ISO/IEC 17025 or 21 CFR Part 11. The feature lists have converged; the regulation and the data model have not, and that surfaces at go-live.[Read More]

Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 24, Issue 36

September 7, 2026
Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update

Volume 24, Issue 36

In This Issue

Featured Books

The Ultimate Guide to Smarter Sample Management

Sample management is invisible until it fails, and then lost samples, labeling errors and disorganized storage slow everything down.

…

Strategic Laboratory Informatics Consulting: Engineering the Next-Generation Digital Transformation for 2027 and Beyond

Disconnected laboratory systems leave life science organizations struggling with data integrity, compliance, and efficiency. A structured informatics strategy connects critical data, strengthens interoperability, and transforms laboratory information into actionable intelligence that supports innovation and faster time-to-market.[Read More]