Astrix Live Webinars – Bridging the Gap: Key Considerations for Successful CDS–LIMS Integration

Astrix tackles what it takes to connect Chromatography Data Systems with LIMS for true laboratory digitalization. The session covers data flow design, regulatory compliance, system interoperability, and user adoption, sharing real-world strategies to reduce manual data handling, strengthen traceability, and improve audit readiness and the timely delivery of analytical results.…

What It Actually Takes to Get Instrument Data Into Your Lab Notebook

Walk through almost any lab and you can map its data by the computers scattered across the benches, each producing real data that never connects to the experimental record. This piece breaks down what instrument integration involves, where each approach breaks, and what separates a file that lands in a notebook from a reading you can still trust years later.[Read More]

The Three Prerequisites for Practical AI in Life Sciences

Gartner estimates over 40% of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by 2027, often because of weak foundations rather than weak algorithms. Drawing on three keynotes from SapioCon 2026, this piece lays out the three prerequisites for practical AI in life sciences: structured data, a trusted verification layer, and the compute to act in the physical world.[Read More]

Validation Without Frustration: Why Domain-Aware Staffing Streamlines GxP Compliance

Validating laboratory informatics, cloud systems, and manufacturing technology in life sciences is never just an IT project, it must follow strict GxP rules. This piece explains why generalist, keyword-driven staffing misses the mark, and how domain-aware staffing brings the regulatory fluency and audit-ready documentation that streamlines compliance.[Read More]

Astrix Expands Global Delivery Capabilities with New Center of Excellence in Kosovo

Astrix has opened its second Global Center of Excellence in Kosovo, expanding its international footprint and strengthening support for its growing client base across Europe. Following the success of its first delivery center in Costa Rica, the new hub will provide specialized technical services, project execution, and customer support across the region.[Read More]

Moving From Spreadsheets and Access to Your First LIMS Without Shutting Down the Lab

Most labs adopting their first LIMS are not replacing old software, they are moving off spreadsheets, paper logs, and an Access database nobody fully understands. The hard part is not deciding to move, it is moving without stopping the lab. This piece shows how a phased transition keeps the lab running, what happens to existing data, and how long the switch takes.[Read More]

Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 24, Issue 26

June 29, 2026
Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update

Volume 24, Issue 26

In This Issue

Featured Books

An ELN Solution Guide for Academic Research

Electronic lab notebooks have moved from optional convenience to essential research infrastructure. This guide traces the evolution from handwritten notebooks to integrated platforms, addressing data fragmentation, reproducibility, and compliance for the modern academic research lab.

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Webinar Last Call: From Manual Steps to Automated, Audit-Ready Workflows at genOway

Discover how genOway transformed its lab operations by replacing manual data entry and paper-based workflows with a modern, API-based LIMS. In this webinar, learn how WebLab eliminated repetitive tasks, reduced errors, and accelerated reporting, delivering faster, more reliable results to customers. Ideal for small to mid-sized labs ready to digitalize.[Read More]

Pragmatism Over Paperwork: Common Sense in FDA CSA Guidance

For nearly three decades, software validation in life sciences has meant producing mountains of paper to satisfy auditors. The FDA's final guidance on computer software assurance changes that, steering teams away from compliance theater toward a risk-based, pragmatic framework. CSols explains why common sense, not blind automation, keeps validation meaningful.[Read More]

Why Smarter Science Starts With a Digital-From-Day-One Strategy

At SapioCon 2026, one problem kept surfacing: 65% of bench scientists repeat experiments simply because they cannot find or trust earlier work, and an estimated 55% of scientific data sits dark in legacy systems. Sapio makes the case for a digital-from-day-one strategy, building the right infrastructure from the start so data becomes a trustworthy, AI-ready foundation.[Read More]

One Year of Decoding: AI Agents, Global Chaos, and the Future of Science

Can your lab survive a collision between global chaos and the explosive rise of AI? In this first-anniversary episode of Decoding the Digital Lab, host Megan Pettyjohn sits down with industry veteran Kyle McDuffie to unpack a turbulent year in lab informatics, from AI agents to the global forces reshaping the future of science.[Read More]

Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 24, Issue 25

June 22, 2026
Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update

Volume 24, Issue 25

In This Issue

Featured Books

An ELN Solution Guide for Academic Research

Electronic lab notebooks have moved from optional convenience to essential research infrastructure. This guide traces the evolution from handwritten notebooks to integrated platforms, addressing data fragmentation, reproducibility, and compliance for the modern academic research lab.

…

Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 24, Issue 24

June 15, 2026
Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update

Volume 24, Issue 24

In This Issue

Featured Books

An ELN Solution Guide for Academic Research

Electronic lab notebooks have moved from optional convenience to essential research infrastructure. This guide traces the evolution from handwritten notebooks to integrated platforms, addressing data fragmentation, reproducibility, and compliance for the modern academic research lab.

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Ensuring Laboratory Instrument Integration with ASTM and HL7 Data Standards

For pharma labs, selecting a Lab Data Management System that fully supports ASTM and HL7 standards is no longer optional. Sapio explains how standardized data exchange reduces friction in multi-site collaborations, simplifies regulatory submissions, and turns instrument data into auditable, AI-ready records across the research lifecycle.[Read More]

What Pharma Lab Folks Need to Know About Cloud-based LIMS

Adopting a cloud-based LIMS is not a disruption, it is simply a shift in where your software lives. CSols breaks down what changes (zero local footprint, hands-off maintenance, secure mobility), what stays the same (workflows, compliance, setup discipline), and how to plan a transition that feels like a natural extension of your lab.[Read More]

On Demand Webinar: Transforming Legacy Systems for the Future of AI and Analytics

Modernizing scientific systems is rarely about the systems themselves, it is about the data trapped inside them. In this joint on-demand webinar, Astrix and Sapio walk through harmonized vocabularies, domain-aligned ontologies, and what an AI-native lab operation looks like when the data foundation is finally ready for it.[Read More]

Pistoia Alliance Conference 2026: Leveraging Modern Data Capabilities to Increase the Efficiency of Pharmaceutical R&D

The Pistoia Alliance Conference 2026 united R&D IT leaders around an urgent message: drug discovery challenges can only be solved through collaboration. Kalleid recaps the stakes (83% of life sciences executives say they will miss growth targets without transformation), the rise of knowledge graphs and ontologies, and why change management remains the true bottleneck.[Read More]

Pre-Built HPLC ELN Template: System Suitability and ISO 17025 Documentation Built In

ELabELN's pre-built HPLC template ships with a 10-step protocol, validated method references, and structured fields for column chemistry, mobile phase, flow rate, detection, retention times, and assay results. Cloud deployment is typically live in 1 to 2 days, with system-suitability tracking and ISO 17025-aligned method documentation built into every run.[Read More]

Better Lab Operations Start with Better Process Management: A Labbit Approach to the Full BPM Lifecycle

Better lab operations start with better process management. Join Labbit on June 10 at 1 p.m. EST for a live webinar walking through the full BPM lifecycle, from mapping current workflows to optimizing and automating them. Learn a practical approach for freeing scientists from administrative work so they can spend more time on science.…

Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update – Volume 24, Issue 23

June 8, 2026
Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update

Volume 24, Issue 23

In This Issue

Featured Books

Comprehensive Guide to Developing and Implementing a Cybersecurity Plan

Uncover the ultimate roadmap to safeguard your lab’s valuable data from sophisticated cyber threats. Harnessing the power of a well-configured Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), this guide details top-notch cybersecurity measures like access control, encryption, audit trails, and vulnerability management to ensure data integrity and regulatory compliance.

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