LabVantage Announces the Availability of the Sapphire™ BioBanking Solution
LabVantage Solutions Inc., a leading provider of browser-based laboratory information management solutions tailored for the life sciences industry, announces the availability of the Sapphire™ BioBanking Solution. Built in conjunction with the original developers of the widely-recognized Spectrum™ repository management tool, the solution offers a complete, out-of-the-box sample management and tracking system for biological specimens.
Large-scale research in genomics and proteomics and clinical development for tomorrow’s drugs and medical treatments, especially with the emergence of biomaker research and personalized medicine, necessitates accurate, compliant and efficient management of biospecimens. Although many software products have addressed smaller pieces of sample management, LabVantage has recognized the need to bring together “best of breed” information management, location tracking, logistics and compliance features to the life sciences industry.
“The introduction of the Sapphire BioBanking Solution will allow LabVantage to more fully address the needs of our life sciences customers as large-scale collection of biospecimens becomes more pervasive,” said Jim Aurelio, CEO of LabVantage. “This has been a traditionally underserved component in the life sciences industry, and this module of Sapphire extends LabVantage’s existing enterprise platform already serving life sciences discovery, development, formulation, raw materials testing, and quality management laboratories.”
The Sapphire BioBanking Solution is designed to address the unique challenges of specimen collection and banking for pharmaceutical discovery and clinical operations, academic and biosciences research centers, medical institutions, and contract research organizations. It provides a browser-based user interface for quick user acceptance, and a built-in Evergreen™ configuration tool to tailor the same solution to the needs of each laboratory within an organization. This flexibility also allows the Sapphire BioBanking Solution to readily adapt to a variety of data capture, result management, storage and specimen handling circumstances.
This biospecimen tracking module is seamlessly integrated with Sapphire’s existing laboratory information management solution for life sciences R&D which can manage experiments and track vital genomic, proteomics, phenotypic and other result information about samples. Furthermore, it can easily be integrated with third party public databases, instruments, clinical trail management systems, electronic data capture systems, and existing laboratory information management systems.
The Sapphire BioBanking Solution is available immediately. For more details, please visit
www.labvantage.com/pr/biobanking .
About LabVantage Solutions, Inc.
LabVantage, an innovative global provider of enterprise solutions tailored for leading
laboratories, serves discovery, development, formulation, process research, raw material testing, and quality management laboratories across multiple industries. Sapphire™, a browser-based information management solution, is tailored to manage an organization’s critical laboratory information across its worldwide development pipeline and manufacturing supply chain using the latest communication and automation technologies. A Chatterjee Management Group company and Optimized IBM Business Partner, LabVantage is headquartered in Bridgewater, New Jersey, with offices in High Wycombe, UK, and Kolkata, India. LabVantage also has an extensive web of global business partnerships and technology alliances. Further information about LabVantage and its products is available at www.labvantage.com .
