Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 23, Issue 39
September 29, 2025 Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update Volume 23, Issue 39 In This Issue Featured Books LIMS Selection Guide for ISO/IEC 17025 Laboratories Featured Content Environmental Lab Innovations: Leading the Way to a Sustainable FutureEnvironmental labs are transforming science and sustainability through innovations like real-time monitoring, eDNA analysis, advanced spectrometry, robotics, AI, and cloud platforms. These advancements improve compliance, accelerate testing, and help protect ecosystems, communities, and natural resources. [Read More] Decoding the Digital Lab With CSols: Season 1, Episode 10: What to Know Before Moving Your LIMS to the CloudThis must-listen episode explores a hot topic for lab…Environmental Lab Innovations: Leading the Way to a Sustainable Future
Environmental labs are transforming science and sustainability through innovations like real-time monitoring, eDNA analysis, advanced spectrometry, robotics, AI, and cloud platforms. These advancements improve compliance, accelerate testing, and help protect ecosystems, communities, and natural resources. [Read More]
How does a LIMS help with ISO 17025 certification?
ISO 17025 demands rigorous traceability, data integrity, quality control, calibration oversight, corrective action logging, and reporting. A LIMS helps by automating and centralizing these processes: tracking samples, controlling access, managing calibrations and deviations, and generating compliant reports. [Read More]
SAPIO: Sapio ELaiN: The AI Co-Scientist for R&D
Sapio ELaiN, the first AI native lab notebook, transforms research by acting as your co-scientist. Discover natural language experiment design, automated analysis and visualization, built-in scientific intelligence, compliance-ready audit trails, and more to accelerate discovery beyond traditional ELNs. [Read More]
Decommissioning and Migration of LIMS: A Structured Approach
Transitioning from one LIMS to another is complex, impacting data integrity, compliance, and operations. More than a software swap, it reshapes lab informatics, workflows, and quality frameworks. With careful planning, migration to a next-gen LIMS enables modernization, compliance, and optimized data management. Poor preparation, however, risks data loss, disruption, and non-compliance. This article presents a strategy for systematic decommissioning and validated implementation of a new LIMS. [Read More]
Beyond Locks and Logins: A 2025 Playbook for Lab Management Security
Laboratories face rising risks as cyber threats and compliance demands grow. From zero-trust security and AI-driven threat detection to immutable audit trails and secure cloud systems, discover how modern labs can protect data, ensure compliance, and build lasting confidence. [Read More]
From Paper Piles to Prowess: Your Lab’s Guide to Going Digital
To transition from paper to a digital system, a laboratory must first identify the inefficiencies and errors caused by paper-based workflows. The transformation can be accomplished by creating a step-by-step plan that includes a phased implementation, staff training, and the selection of the right digital tools to streamline operations and improve data accuracy. [Read More]
Using Data Analytics to Capture Actionable Metadata in Research Labs
Modern research generates vast amounts of complex data, making metadata—information that describes and organizes data to make it easier to find, understand, and use—as crucial as the data itself. Yet this “data about data” often falls short of today’s scientific standards. The new goal is to capture actionable metadata: dynamic, comprehensive details such as experimental parameters, equipment calibration, and sample lineage. [Read More]
Decoding the Digital Lab With CSols: Season 1, Episode 10: Don’t Get Locked In: Key Considerations for LIMS Hosting
This must-listen episode explores a hot topic for lab managers and IT professionals: moving a LIMS to the cloud. Our host digs into the unvarnished truth about what you need to know before making the leap, helping you weigh the benefits, challenges, and critical considerations in cloud adoption. [Read More]
LIMS Launchpad Series: Episode #3 – Automations & Integrations
Event Overview:
The LIMS Launchpad Series offers a professionally curated, step-by-step roadmap to help laboratories of all types make informed, strategic decisions when evaluating and purchasing a LIMS. From initial needs assessments to calculating ROI, each session in the series delivers deep industry insight, practical tools, and expert guidance to prepare your team for a successful LIMS deployment.…
Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 23, Issue 38
September 22, 2025 Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update Volume 23, Issue 38 In This Issue Featured Books Justifying LIMS Acquisition and Deployment within Your Organization Featured Content AI Enabled Content Generation for Clinical and Regulatory Documents Platform SolutionsIn Part One of our series, we assessed your organization’s AI readiness for automating regulatory and clinical trial document creation. Part Two explored Structured Content Authoring, establishing modular frameworks for clinical development data. Now, in Part Three, we examine AI-enabled content generation—what it is, why it’s gaining momentum, and how organizations can adopt it to populate the Structured Content Framework from Part Two.…AI Enabled Content Generation for Clinical and Regulatory Documents Platform Solutions
In Part One of our series, we assessed your organization’s AI readiness for automating regulatory and clinical trial document creation. Part Two explored Structured Content Authoring, establishing modular frameworks for clinical development data. Now, in Part Three, we examine AI-enabled content generation—what it is, why it’s gaining momentum, and how organizations can adopt it to populate the Structured Content Framework from Part Two. [Read More]
Could Your Lab Pass the Escape Room Test?
Could your lab pass the escape room test? Many teams struggle to find critical data when it matters most. By replacing scattered spreadsheets and paper records with connected digital tools, labs unlock faster workflows, easier compliance, and a clear path to innovation instead of a search for missing clues. [Read More]
Ipiranga Gains a Competitive Edge with the Implementation of myLIMS
Ipiranga, Brazil’s leading privately-owned fuel and lubricant distributor, faced challenges managing laboratory analyses and results without a computerized system. To ensure full traceability, streamline processes, and automate reporting, the company partnered with Confience to implement the myLIMS system. With myLIMS, Ipiranga’s lab is free from routine tasks, enabling the team to focus on research and innovation and positioning the facility as a national benchmark for excellence. [Read More]
Keys to Selecting the Right Life Science Staffing Partner
In the life sciences, innovation drives success, but finding the right talent quickly is a critical challenge that can derail projects, disrupt workflows, and jeopardize compliance. Partnering with a specialized staffing firm helps organizations access top-tier professionals, reduce hiring costs, and improve flexibility. This blog explores the benefits of working with a quality staffing partner and how to choose the right firm. [Read More]
Kalleid Launches Scientific Staffing Services
Kalleid Inc., a leading laboratory IT consulting firm that has been dedicated to servicing the life sciences industry since 2014, today announced that it is launching Scientific Staffing Services for companies needing to fill niche scientific, laboratory/manufacturing operations, and IT support roles. [Read More]
Sapio Sciences Introduces World’s First 3rd-Generation ELN
Sapio Sciences, the science-awareTM AI lab informatics platform, today announces the launch of the world’s first 3rd-generation Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) that thinks like a scientist, Sapio ELaiN. [Read More]
From Fields to Food Safety: How Agriculture Labs Drive Pesticide Research and the Role of Lab Management Solutions
Agriculture labs play a vital role in pesticide research, from residue testing and food safety to environmental impact studies and resistance management. By combining advanced science with modern lab tools, these labs help ensure safer crops, sustainable farming practices, and a healthier global food supply. [Read More]
Astrix Webinar – From BPMN to Knowledge Graph: Enabling FAIR Data and AI-Ready Audit Trails in Modern LIMS
This session explores how combining BPMN-driven workflow configuration with a native knowledge graph database lays the foundation for FAIR, AI-ready lab data. We’ll show how labs can move from whiteboard to execution using BPMN—not just to visualize workflows, but to drive them—ensuring every SOP is followed precisely, and every step is captured with rich context.…
