Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 22, Issue 14
April 4, 2024 Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update Volume 22, Issue 14 In This Issue Featured Books LIMSjournal - Spring 2024 Featured Content Can investing in a LIMS provide a competitive edge?As demands on laboratories continue to soar, researchers, scientists, and lab managers find themselves in a race against time, struggling to keep up with increasing sample volumes, complex workflows, and stringent quality standards. A laboratory information management system (LIMS) can be the ultimate game-changer, offering a transformative solution that saves time and resources, supercharges productivity, enhances data integrity, and provides a competitive advantage. [Read More] Informatics Systems: A Serving…CSols Summit 2024: The Next-gen Lab: Pioneering Tomorrow, Today
Learn how to optimize existing tools and embrace emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, data science, simulations, analytics, and lab informatics integrations for enhanced daily operations.
EVENT HIGHLIGHTS:
- Engage with interactive presentations, panel discussions, and 1:1 interviews
- Hear insights from carefully selected experts in Industry 4.0 and data science
WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
Professionals in industries relying on laboratory results who are seeking to enhance their knowledge of data science and AI.…
State Healthcare IT Connect Summit 2024
An annual summit for those managing state health IT systems…
Can investing in a LIMS provide a competitive edge?
As demands on laboratories continue to soar, researchers, scientists, and lab managers find themselves in a race against time, struggling to keep up with increasing sample volumes, complex workflows, and stringent quality standards. A laboratory information management system (LIMS) can be the ultimate game-changer, offering a transformative solution that saves time and resources, supercharges productivity, enhances data integrity, and provides a competitive advantage. [Read More]
Informatics Systems: A Serving of Alphabet Soup
Depending on how long you have been working in the lab informatics industry, you may have noticed that the list of acronyms feels almost endless. Since this blog was first written more than 10 years ago, that list of acronyms has only grown. This blog post updates the original list to provide insight into an expanded list of the most common acronyms. [Read More]
What’s Important When Selecting a LIMS?
When selecting a laboratory information management system (LIMS), whether it’s your first or you’re replacing an existing solution, the temptation is to concentrate solely on your user requirements. It really does make sense to document these and match them to the features of potential LIMS products. However, remember that it is extremely unlikely, if not impossible, that any LIMS will exactly meet your needs when delivered out-of-the-box, and anyway those needs will certainly change over time. [Read More]
GxP Compliance Support With LabTwin
LabTwin is built on three pillars—its AI-powered large language model, its integration with the lab informatics landscape, and its support for general good practices (GxP); whether manufacturing, clinical, laboratory, or documentation. A prior blog post described how the AI features in the LabTwin voice-powered digital lab assistant support the Lab of the Future. Here, we’ll look at the second pillar that underlies LabTwin’s software and support for GxP organizations. [Read More]
How does a food and beverage laboratory LIMS handle incident management and corrective action?
A food and beverage lab's LIMS can revolutionize incident and corrective action management by ensuring quality outcomes, swiftly identifying incidents, and implementing effective corrective measures. With cutting-edge functionality like sample management and tracking, audit trails, and incident management tools, the LIMS empowers food and beverage businesses to improve how it identifies, reacts, corrects, and prevents such future incidents. [Read More]
STARLIMS On Demand Webinar | Revolutionizing Research with ELN-Driven Experiment Efficiency
R&D leaders face growing pressure to innovate quickly and cost-effectively. However, manual paper-based data collection methods stifle innovation, while outdated systems slow productivity and introduce data quality and traceability issues. We explored this topic in our webinar: Revolutionizing Research: Enhancing Experiment Efficiency with an ELN. In this webinar we explore the history of scientific documentation, the importance of data quality, and the benefits of using modern ELN technology to advance innovation. [Read More]
Webinar: Navigating the Fundamentals of Test Methods for Accurate Diagnosis of Arboviral Disease Live
“This webinar will focus on the fundamentals of serologic and molecular test methods for the accurate diagnosis of arboviral disease. Dr. Amy Lambert will guide the audience through the nuances in detection of viral material and/or antibodies depending on the virus and stage of disease.…
Astrix Webinar – Beyond the AI Hype: Putting AI into Practice Today to Accelerate Drug Discovery
A webinar sponsored by Astrix
Date: Apr 3, 2024
Time: 1:00 PM EST / 10:00 AM PST
Presented by: Rob Brown, Snr Director, Sapio Sciences
Overview:
Large language models (LLMS) like ChatGPT are revolutionizing the way in which humans interact with computers – transforming to a natural language and chat-based paradigm.…
Webinar: Mission: Possible—How to Improve Sustainability in Your Lab
“Sustainability is becoming an essential consideration in the scientific and clinical sector, particularly in laboratory operations where the generation of waste is a significant concern. This webinar will explore the essential role of sustainability and waste reduction strategies in laboratory management, with a focus on single-use consumables such as pipette tips.…
Request for Tender: Laboratory Information Management System for Queensland Government
Solicitation #: 2024126
“The Queensland Government is seeking Proposals for a Laboratory Data Management software package, providing configurable workflows, documenting and managing the lifecycle of samples (including derivative samples); including their accession, transformation (SOP driven), storage and retrieval, the ability to distinguish and track samples across numerous projects, and the ability to group and re-group samples through workflows.…
Request for Proposal: Water Quality Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) Upgrade
Solicitation #: C2020
Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District of California is seeking proposals for a laboratory information management system (LIMS) upgrade. Note that log-in is required to view the proposal documents.
Due date: 02 April 2024, 10:00 a.m. PDT…
OptiGUI DataCollector: A graphical user interface for automating the data collecting process in optical and photonics labs
Wanting to integrate instruments and electronic systems in a laboratory is nothing new, and it is in fact increasingly desired. The optics and photonics lab is no exception to this fact. In this 2023 article published in the journal SoftwareX, Soto-Perdomo et al. address this desire with their OptiGUI DataCollector, a modular system that integrates optical and photonic devices, simplifies experiment workflows, and automates numerous workflow aspects in the lab, which in turn reduces the number of human-based errors. After a brief introduction to their reasoning for the system, the authors fully describe it and provide illustrative examples of its use. They conclude that the "software's automation capabilities accelerate data acquisition, processing, and analysis, saving researchers time and effort," while also improving reproducibility of research experiments.
