“Life finds a way.” Okay, maybe Ian Malcolm didn’t have algae in mind when he uttered those infamous words. But with harmful algal blooms increasing worldwide every year, the microscopic organisms are making as dramatic an impact as a tyrannosaurus rex (or indo-raptor, for that matter). Humans are directly in the crosshairs of these toxic blooms. And that means stepping up the game in your lab. If your water testing LIMS isn’t prepped for the coming onslaught, it might be time for an upgrade. [Read More]

The manufacturing and delivery of cell therapies share similar attributes of processing which distinguishes them from pharmaceutical or biopharmaceutical products. They require end-to-end visibility that ensures chain of custody, identity, and condition. This impacts various aspects of the process including the quality management, LIMS and MES solutions leveraged in these organizations. In this blog we discuss the unique requirements.  [Read More]

What do ADMET studies provide to drug developers?  A critical piece in drug discovery and development is conducting DMPK (Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics) studies, often referred to as ADMET (Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, Elimination, Toxicity) studies. These studies help to determine the viability of a drug candidate by answering these key questions...[Read More]

Sometimes, when you’re trying to come up with a better way to solve a challenge, it can help to step back and consider the situation from a new vantage point. We did this when we were building our new product — Labbit — an intelligent laboratory information management system (LIMS) designed with lab operations as the focus. [Read More]

Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. releases new software to scientists in biopharmaceutical, proteomics, and small molecule settings to enable more comprehensive analysis of their data. The latest software updates bring new features that enable researchers to extract more information from their new and existing data, streamline data interpretation, and standardize reporting with increased ease of use.  [Read More]

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced the release of its MassHunter BioConfirm 12.0 software, which now supports data generated by Agilent high-resolution LC/MS for oligonucleotide purity analysis and sequence confirmation. [Read More]

In this 2020 paper published in JMIR Medical Informatics, Cecchetti et al. of the Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine at Marshall University present their health informatics platform, the Appalachian Informatics Platform (AIP). Designed to support "research efforts by enabling curation and analysis of data using the different components," the platform is described in detail following the presentation of necessary background information on the unique informatics and healthcare challenges of the Appalachia region. After describing their methodology and results, the authors discuss the perceived utility of AIP and conclude that AIP is indeed useful in "enabling seamless and secure data access, model development through an analytics engine to explore novel and unexpected hypotheses, and simple yet effective communication of all findings via interactive visualization."