Autoscribe Informatics to Showcase Xybion LIMS at London Lab Live 2025
Autoscribe Informatics, a Xybion company, is participating in London Lab Live 2025. Join us at ExCeL London from May 14 – 15, 2025, where we will be showcasing Xybion LIMS, our cutting-edge laboratory information management system (LIMS) designed to drive efficiency, compliance and data management in laboratories. Visit us at Booth #211 to discover the latest innovations in laboratory informatics and workflow optimization. [Read More]
Can an ELN Help With Grant Reporting and Audits?
Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELNs) transform how research teams manage data, ensuring accuracy and compliance. With automated audit trails, secure electronic signatures, and real-time collaboration, ELNs streamline grant reporting and simplify audits. By centralizing data and maintaining detailed records, they enhance transparency and save time—letting researchers focus more on innovation and less on paperwork. [Read More]
Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 23, Issue 15
April 14, 2025 Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update Volume 23, Issue 15 In This Issue Featured Books Justifying LIMS Acquisition and Deployment within Your Organization Featured Content How to Migrate from Paper Lab Notebooks to a Digital ELN: A Step-by-Step GuideMigrating from paper lab notebooks to a digital ELN can transform how your lab operates—boosting efficiency, improving data integrity, and simplifying collaboration. This step-by-step guide walks you through evaluating your current processes, choosing the right ELN, training your team, and ensuring a smooth, successful transition. [Read More] Enhance Quality Control in Your Lab with an Advanced LIMSQuality Control (QC) Labs…How to Migrate from Paper Lab Notebooks to a Digital ELN: A Step-by-Step Guide
Migrating from paper lab notebooks to a digital ELN can transform how your lab operates—boosting efficiency, improving data integrity, and simplifying collaboration. This step-by-step guide walks you through evaluating your current processes, choosing the right ELN, training your team, and ensuring a smooth, successful transition. [Read More]
Enhance Quality Control in Your Lab with an Advanced LIMS
Quality Control (QC) Labs require stringent adherence to the sample ID and classification, testing rules along with the historical tracking of data for evaluation and trending. A LIMS supports this by ensuring product specs and statistical compliance, guiding samples through the lab. Integration with instruments, third-party systems, barcoding, and automated reporting boosts efficiency and reduces errors. [Read More]
Squeezing the Pipette: How Federal Funding Cuts Could Impact Your Lab
Lab professionals across the U.S. play a vital role in research, disease surveillance, food safety, and accurate diagnoses. However, federal funding and staffing cuts at agencies like HHS, NIH, CDC, EPA, and FDA are threatening their ability to operate—impacting labs nationwide and beyond. This blog explores how these cuts impact labs nationwide and why it's crucial for lab teams and their organizations to prepare and adapt to do more with less. [Read More]
What is a LIMS and what is it used for?
Data storage is a common challenge for labs that generate and analyze large volumes of sensitive data, especially when subject to strict industry standards. Labs need storage solutions designed to handle these demands while ensuring data quality, security, and collaboration. That’s where a LIMS comes in. [Read More]
How AI and Machine Learning Are Revolutionizing Life Sciences R&D Labs
Welcome to Part Two of our blog series, Unlocking AI in the Lab: Your 2025 Roadmap to Data Readiness & Scalable Innovation. In this series, we explore how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are reshaping the future of research and development in the life sciences industry. [Read More]
The NIH’s 2025 Data Management and Sharing Policy: How ELNs Help You Stay Compliant
The NIH’s 2025 Data Management and Sharing Policy requires labs to prioritize transparency, accessibility, and proper documentation of research data. Electronic Lab Notebooks (ELNs) make compliance easier by centralizing records, ensuring version control, supporting secure sharing, and aligning with data integrity standards. [Read More]
DMEA 2025
Formerly called Connecting Healthcare IT, DMEA is an annual European exhibition on healthcare IT.…
SmartLab Exchange
An annual conference on informatics in R&D and manufacturing …
ASCLD 2025 Symposium
An annual symposium concerning “the day-to-day operation of a crime laboratory” for the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors (ASCLD)
NOTE: As of June 2024, the venue has not been announced, but it will be held in Denver, Colorado.…
Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 23, Issue 14
April 7, 2025 Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update Volume 23, Issue 14 In This Issue Featured Books Justifying LIMS Acquisition and Deployment within Your Organization Featured Content The R&D Data Journey: Understanding Your Scientific Data’s LifecycleData is dynamic, constantly moving and interacting with other information. Have you ever wondered about the journey your scientific data takes? Where it’s generated, how it’s used, and whether your current processes are efficient? [Read More] The Top 20 Free Software Applications for Research LabsBoost your lab’s productivity with powerful free tools designed for researchers. From electronic lab notebooks and data analysis platforms to advanced…The R&D Data Journey: Understanding Your Scientific Data’s Lifecycle
Data is dynamic, constantly moving and interacting with other information. Have you ever wondered about the journey your scientific data takes? Where it’s generated, how it’s used, and whether your current processes are efficient? [Read More]
The Top 20 Free Software Applications for Research Labs
Boost your lab’s productivity with powerful free tools designed for researchers. From electronic lab notebooks and data analysis platforms to advanced visualization software and reference managers, these applications streamline workflows, enhance collaboration, and support reproducible science—without breaking the budget. [Read More]
Unlocking AI in the Lab: Your 2025 Roadmap to Data Readiness & Scalable Innovation
AI is revolutionizing life science R&D, accelerating discoveries and personalized treatments. To harness its full potential, labs must ensure AI data readiness. In this blog series, we outline a roadmap to drive meaningful transformations through 2025 and beyond. [Read More]
What Is a Dry Lab?
Dry labs are increasingly important tools in laboratory sciences, especially for early-stage research. Unlike wet labs, there are no benches in sight. In fact, dry lab scientists may never pick up a pipette. Dry labs focus on applied or computational mathematical analyses instead of physical experiments, using computer-generated models and simulations in place of samples and reagents. More importantly, they are a key component of lab 4.0. [Read More]
Configuring LIMS Software for NGS
When selecting and configuring LIMS software, five major areas of functionality define the biggest differences between potential options. A lab’s requirements within each area will depend on the nature of the work they do. This article explores what those requirements typically look like for a lab focused on next-generation sequencing (NGS). [Read More]
Fieldale Farms Corporation Optimizes Laboratory Operations with Confience’s SaaS LIMS Solution
Fieldale Farms, a leading poultry producer, managed lab data using Access and Excel, but faced poor tracking, no audit trail, and manual inefficiencies. Identifying test methods or responsible technicians required digging through paperwork. To streamline operations, the lab adopted Confience’s SaaS Food & Beverage LIMS, for easier sample login, better tracking, accurate results with audit trails, strong QA/QC, and seamless instrument integration. [Read More]
Astrix Lab Informatics White Paper – A Roadmap for AI Readiness in R&D Laboratories
Download this comprehensive guide to AI and ML in the R&D Laboratory Setting. Astrix brings its in-depth knowledge on how Life Science companies should prepare to deploy and leverage the power of AI/ML in a way that achieves both business and technical goals. [Read More]
