Case Study: RTI Laboratories
Nationally recognized laboratory slashes operating costs and boosts productivity over 20% with Khemia's Omega 11
Case Study: RTI Laboratories
Nationally recognized laboratory slashes operating costs and boosts productivity over 20% with Khemia's Omega 11Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 13, Issue 49
December 30, 2015 Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update Volume 13, Issue 49 In This Issue Webcast Focus Get the Most from your Waters Empower™ 3 Upgrade Is there an upgrade to Waters Empower 3 in your near future? Join this webinar as we describe some of the most important new features of Empower 3 and outline a process that will ensure that your laboratory organization will “Get the Most from your Waters Empower 3 Upgrade”. Event Focus JANUARY 23, 2016: SLAS2016 SLAS2016 takes place January 23-27 in San Diego, California. Programmed by scientists and engineers for peers interested in leveraging the…SeqWare Query Engine: Storing and searching sequence data in the cloud
In 2010, O'Connor et al. published a paper on their experience developing and implementing a cloud-based query engine that can support thousands of genome datasets. Still actively developed as of 2015, the SeqWare Query Engine "can load and query variants (SNVs, indels, translocations, etc) with a rich level of annotations including coverage and functional consequences." The research team concluded in their paper that the software was then "capable of supporting large scale genome sequencing research projects involving hundreds to thousands of genomes as well as future large scale clinical deployments utilizing advanced sequencer technology that will soon involve tens to hundreds of thousands of genomes."
July 25-27, 2016: 12th Laboratory Informatics Summit
12th Laboratory Informatics Summit July 25-27, 2016 – Princeton, NJ A Comprehensive Discussion on Informatics from Genomics, R&D, Clinical, Quality, and Manufacturing Perspectives to Address Top Industry Challenges! We are bringing together the sharpest and most experienced minds in the industry to tackle these issues and help move the informatics space out of the clutter. This interactive program will allow for a higher level of discussion on how a more robust informatics structure can lead directly to increased R&D efficiency, faster & more effective clinical trials, reduced downtime in production, and most importantly, more time to focus on innovation when your data…Get the Most from your Waters Empower™ 3 Upgrade
Is there an upgrade to Waters Empower 3 in your near future? Join this webinar as we describe some of the most important new features of Empower 3 and outline a process that will ensure that your laboratory organization will “Get the Most from your Waters Empower 3 Upgrade”.
SaDA: From sampling to data analysis—An extensible open source infrastructure for rapid, robust and automated management and analysis of modern ecological high-throughput microarray data
In 2015, Singh et al. published their notes and reflections on developing SaDA, designed "for storing, retrieving and analyzing data originated from microorganism monitoring experiments." The group developed the software after discovering a lack of free, open-source software for microarray data management and analysis. The group concluded that "the platform has the potential to become an appropriate tool for a wide range of users focused not only in water based environmental research but also in other studies aimed at exploring and analyzing complex ecological habitats."
Launching genomics into the cloud: Deployment of Mercury, a next generation sequence analysis pipeline
Seeking to overcome some of the challenges of massively parallel DNA sequencing, Reid et al. developed the Mercury analysis pipeline and deployed it on Amazon Web Services. Publishing their results in 2014 in BMC Bioinformatics, the group demonstrated the success of "a powerful combination of a robust and fully validated software pipeline and a scalable computational resource that, to date, we have applied to more than 10,000 whole genome and whole exome samples."
Best Blogs of 2015
A year in review of the Informatics Insider blogs - see which made the top 5 list
Best Blogs of 2015
Twice a week, we sit down and ask ourselves: "What do you want to hear about?" Our goal is to select blog topics that answer your questions. Here is a post listing some of the best blogs we wrote in 2015.Pathline Emerge Pathology Services Expands IT Capabilities through Halfpenny Technologies Inc.
Pathline Emerge Pathology Services announced the latest feature expansion of their Clinical Data Exchange capabilities by entering into a definitive agreement with Halfpenny Technologies Inc. The HTI platform will work in conjunction with their current Laboratory Information Systems platform to allow real time interrogation of clinical data for their clients.
Boehringer Ingelheim Selects Medidata Clinical Cloud® to Accelerate Innovation in Drug Development
Medidata, the leading global provider of cloud-based solutions for clinical research in life sciences, today announced that Boehringer Ingelheim has selected the Medidata Clinical Cloud® to accelerate innovation across all of its drug development programs.
Sparta Systems Named 2015 FL100+ Honoree by Food Logistics Magazine for Second Consecutive Year
Sparta Systems, Inc., an industry pioneer and global leader in enterprise quality management software (EQMS) solutions, was honored by the editors of Food Logistics as a 2015 FL100+ award winner for its holistic approach to quality control—automating regulatory and compliance workflow processes internally, as well as externally with suppliers and contracted vendors.
Medical Lab Management Selects Psyche Systems’ WPTox for Editor’s Pick
Psyche Systems’ Toxicology LIS is named as Medical Lab Manager’s Editor’s Pick in their New and Noteworthy category, December 2015.
WPTox simplifies and streamlines much of the sample collection process through its easy-to-use web based sample collection portal, which asks specific questions pertaining to the patient’s history, drug use and prescription medications.
Benefits of the community for partners of open source vendors
Appearing in the magazine Open Source Business Resource (today called Technology Innovation Management Review) in 2011, this non-journal article by Sandro Groganz describes how "[o]pen source vendors can benefit from business ecosystems that form around their products," using open-source OXID eShop and its vendor OXID eSales as a representative example. Groganz concludes that "an open source community is not a state but a process," one that "creates a foundation for long-term growth and sustainability" when appropriately embraced.
MARCH 6 – 10, 2016: Pittcon 2016 Conference and Expo
PITTCON IS THE WORLD’S LEADING CONFERENCE AND EXPOSITION FOR LABORATORY SCIENCE.
This dynamic global event offers a unique opportunity to get a hands-on look at the latest innovations and to find solutions to all your laboratory challenges. The robust technical program offers the latest research in more than 2,000 technical presentations covering a diverse selection of methodologies and applications. Pittcon also offers more than 100 skill-building short courses in a wide range of topics and the once-a-year chance to network with colleagues.
MorphoSys deploys Dotmatics’ Vortex to Accelerate Antibody Research
Dotmatics, a leading provider of scientific informatics solutions and services, announced MorphoSys will implement Vortex to analyse and visualise their screening data enabling rapid, informed decision making. MorphoSys choose Vortex because of the intuitive nature of the product and its extensive drug discovery capabilities.
Veterinary Diagnostics Laboratory LIMS Case Study
Autoscribe Informatics has published a new case study on the use of the Matrix Gemini LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) at a multi-site veterinary diagnostic and clinical pathology laboratory. Matrix Gemini is being used by NationWide Laboratory Services to co-ordinate sample tracking, management and reporting across laboratories in four different UK locations,
Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 13, Issue 48
December 17, 2015 Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update Volume 13, Issue 48 In This Issue Event Focus JANUARY 23, 2016: SLAS2016 SLAS2016 takes place January 23-27 in San Diego, California. Programmed by scientists and engineers for peers interested in leveraging the latest in scientific technology. Best-in-class information, innovation and inspiration at the intersection of science and technology. See www.slas2016.org for details and to register. JANUARY 25, 2016: 11th Laboratory Informatics Summit Timelines are tighter than ever before and informatics teams must constantly adapt to the changing demands of research science. Furthermore, periodic updates to your systems calls for a comprehensive implementation…adLIMS: A customized open source software that allows bridging clinical and basic molecular research studies
The San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy wanted a new LIMS to manage the data coming from their PCR techniques and next generation sequencing (NGS) methods. Not finding something suitable, the group developed its own LIMS, adLIMS. This 2015 research paper by Calabria et al., published in BMC Bioinformatics, covers the academic aspects of the information collection and development process.
