Invitation to Bid: Water and Wastewater Laboratory Testing Services
Solicitation #: ITB 2024-047
The Board of County Commissioners of Calvert County, Maryland is seeking bids for water and wastewater laboratory testing services.
Due date: 24 May 2024, 2:30 p.m. EDT…
Webinar: Know thy sample: Five methods to quantify your protein and when to use them
“Precise protein quantification is a crucial step in workflows involving protein extraction, isolation, and analysis. Accurate knowledge of the concentration of your protein sample is essential for proper setup and interpretation of experiments. It is also fundamental in understanding molecular interactions, signaling pathways, and pathological mechanisms, and in biomarker and drug discovery.…
Request for Proposal: Canadian Soil Sampling
Solicitation #: W9132T24Q0019
“The Engineer Research and Development Center – Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (ERDC-CERL) has been tasked by the Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory’s Defense Resiliency Against Extreme Cold Weather CPI to expand a model developed for Alaska to other boreal forest regions of North America.…
Webinar: Value of Lab Medicine: Impactful Best Practices to Improve Patient Diagnosis and Reduce Healthcare Costs
“Technological and scientific advancements have led to new and better methods for identifying and diagnosing medical conditions, while simultaneously streamlining the delivery of patient care and improving outcomes. In this webinar, we spotlight two exceptional teams that overcame healthcare system challenges to embrace transformative technologies and implement novel approaches that significantly impacted patient care and outcomes.…
Request for Bids: Laboratory Testing at Wastewater Division
Solicitation #: Unknown
“The Town of North Attleborough, acting through the Town Manager and the Board of Public Works, Wastewater Division, is receiving sealed bids and proposals for Lab Testing at the Public Works Administration Building, 49 Whiting Street, North Attleborough, Massachusetts 02760, up to 11:00 am, Thursday, May 23, 2024, at which date, time and place the bids will be publicly opened and read aloud at the Public Works Administration Building Public Meeting Room.”…
Webinar: Navigating changes in regulated software environments
“Does regulated laboratory software use in a modern software ecosystem have to be complex? Join us for our latest webinar to unlock insights into the intricacies of regulated laboratory software. We will discuss the changing regulatory landscapes, observations, and considerations when aligning software records with ALCOA+ principles as well as the essentials of requirements, qualification and validation for laboratory software.…
Invitation for Bids: Water Laboratory Analytical Testing Services
Solicitation #: 24-2010
“The Town of Wayland, Massachusetts, the Awarding Authority, invites sealed bids from qualified firms for the provision of Water Laboratory Analytical Testing Services in the Town of Wayland, MA. Sealed bids for WATER LABORATORY ANALYTICAL TESTING SERVICES will be received at the Procurement Office, 1st Floor, Wayland Town Building, 41 Cochituate Road, Wayland, MA 01778 until 10:00 AM, Thursday, May 23, 2024.…
Pathology Informatics Summit 2024
The Pathology Informatics Summit is an annual educational conference on pathology informatics.…
Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 22, Issue 21
May 23, 2024 Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update Volume 22, Issue 21 In This Issue Featured Books The Complete Guide to LIMS and Laboratory Informatics - 2024 Edition Featured Content Simplifying LIMS Test Maintenance AdminGrouping Tests to Minimize Test Maintenance Admin Overheads in a LIMS. In this case we talk about grouping tests within QC testing for furniture, but this same grouping methodology can be applied to any industry. Analytical testing plays a key role in ensuring the safety of consumer and other products and is therefore vital for both the manufacturers and users of those products. The need for…A Guide to Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) Certification and Compliance
Depending on your organization’s role in either biotechnology or drug discovery research, Good Laboratory Practices (GLPs) are the minimum standards used for benchmarking the proper conduct of animal safety studies, in a nonclinical environment, applying both in vivo and in vitro testing. GLPs provide a foundation for conducting well-controlled studies that can assure the quality and integrity of any data generated in the laboratory that may be used for future research studies or regulatory submissions. Not only do GLP regulations help ensure the quality of data, but they can also help to form a framework for facilitating study reconstruction when data is found favorable to moving forward with research on a new drug substance or product. [Read More]
Simplifying LIMS Test Maintenance Admin
Grouping Tests to Minimize Test Maintenance Admin Overheads in a LIMS. In this case we talk about grouping tests within QC testing for furniture, but this same grouping methodology can be applied to any industry. Analytical testing plays a key role in ensuring the safety of consumer and other products and is therefore vital for both the manufacturers and users of those products. The need for testing is often mandated by governments or regulatory bodies, who may also define the standards that the products must meet. The testing involved may be complex with many different components or parts of the product requiring testing. [Read More]
Harnessing Cloud-Based and SaaS Innovations in LIMS Solutions
Cloud-based and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions are revolutionizing laboratory management by offering flexibility, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. LabLynx LIMS is a leading provider of such solutions, empowering laboratories with comprehensive functionality, enhanced data security, and customizable options to streamline workflows and improve efficiency. [Read More]
CSols Summit 2024 Recap: The Next-gen Lab: Pioneering Tomorrow, Today
It is becoming increasingly clear to organizations of all sizes, across all industries, that their most valuable product is their data. This is even true for service organizations like CSols. To help organizations make sense of their potential paths to better laboratory data management, CSols organized the 2024 edition of the CSols Summit. The Summit brought together industry experts to discuss how to move the lab forward with current tools and emerging technologies. Attendees gained better understandings of how artificial intelligence (AI), data, simulations, analytics, and lab informatics integrations could be optimized to improve their daily operations. [Read More]
Empowering Water Laboratories: QLIMS and WaterOutlook Integration
Water laboratories need to stay updated with the latest developments, testing requirements, and regulations. In the current era, where data precision and ecological responsibility are crucial, LIMS is becoming a transformative force that streamlines processes, supports regulatory compliance, and enhances sustainability efforts. We have an exciting announcement for you: OnQ Software’s advanced solution QLIMS has WaterOutlook integration. [Read More]
Revolutionizing Laboratory Operations with Digital Innovation and Advanced Analytics
Digital transformation and advanced analytics are revolutionizing laboratory operations, enabling enhanced efficiency, data-driven decision-making, and improved research capabilities. LabLynx LIMS is a leading solution that facilitates this transformation by offering comprehensive data management, automation of routine tasks, integration with advanced analytics tools, and ensuring regulatory compliance. [Read More]
Webinar: How to Keep Your Clinical Laboratory Quality Control Plans on Track
“Laboratories are required by the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 (CLIA) regulations to have a quality control process to monitor the accuracy and precision of their testing process. Individualized quality control plans (IQCPs) are an option that allows laboratories to develop a QC process specific to their unique testing environment and patient population.…
Beyond the Dashboards for Data Analytics
Use the tools and data that you already have in your laboratory information management system (LIMS) to improve the productivity of your laboratory operation by:
- Optimizing your laboratory operation to mine useful and actionable information from the already-available data in your LIMS and other informatics systems
- Using dashboards and predictive models to present information to stakeholders in a live and actionable format
- Extending the existing LIMS Analytics Modules to perform advanced statistical analysis on your ever-changing data
- Enhancing your forecasting capabilities for planning, resource management and regulatory needs
In this webinar, learn how the tools you may already have can be used to extract actionable data from your LIMS.…
Astrix Webinar – Digital Transformation in the Pharmaceutical Lab: how to be SLIM with an advanced, AI and cloud-based LIMS.
A webinar sponsored by Astrix
Date: May 22, 2024
Time: 1:00 PM EST / 7:00 PM CET
Overview:
Pharmaceutical laboratories are navigating an increasingly complex digital landscape: they must handle vast data flows, integrate hybrid operational systems (manual and digital), and connect a wide range of laboratory tools.…
Histopathology image classification: Highlighting the gap between manual analysis and AI automation
Histopathology diagnostics has largely been a manual process, with humans examining images of tissues and evaluating them based on knowledge passed down and experience gained. With the age of digital pathology reaching strong realization, new methods are arising, including with the use of artificial intelligence (AI). In this 2024 paper published in Frontiers in Oncology, Doğan and Yılmaz present their AI-based system for image analysis, which taps into both a histogram of oriented gradients (HoG) method and a customized convolutional neural network (CNN) model. After discussing their approach and results, the authors discuss the implications of their results, concluding that their approach could be "considered a good alternative as it performs as well as and better than the more complex models described in the literature." They also say that their results highlight "the indisputable advantages of AI automation and the critical importance of data normalization and interpretation" for any AI-driven effort towards histopathology image analysis, while at the same time noting that the AI's "algorithms must [still] transparently reveal decision-making processes and be understandable by clinical experts."
Request for Proposal: Professional Laboratory Services For Surface Water and Stormwater Water Quality Analyses For Compliance With NPDES MS4 Phase I Permit and the WPCF Class V Stormwater Permit
Solicitation #: Unknown
The City of Lake Oswego, Oregon is requesting proposals “to provide professional laboratory services for Surface Water and Stormwater Water Quality Analyses for Compliance with NPDES MS4 Phase 1 Permit and the WPCF Class V Stormwater Permit … The work includes project administration, surface water and stormwater sampling, on-call analyses from samples collected as a result of a spill or illicit discharge, and reports from the analyses.”…
