Utilizing the BIOVIA ELN with Pipeline Pilot to Enhance R&D
The BIOVIA ELN is a crucial technology that works with Pipeline Pilot in a seamless fashion. Modern laboratory technologies such as Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELNs) and LIMS have made enormous amounts of data available to scientists in life science laboratories. Scientists that are recording, managing and archiving research data in paper notebooks and performing tasks manually simply cannot keep up with this deluge of data. These paper-based methods lead to scenarios where much collected data is siloed and never analyzed, while many experiments end up being needlessly repeated.
Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELNs) are rapidly becoming a fundamental part of every laboratory operation in industries from pharmaceuticals, to chemicals, to academia, consumer goods and more. By facilitating the storing, accessing, analyzing, reporting and sharing of critical research data, ELNs help to create an effective knowledge base for your organization, streamline the documentation and protection of intellectual property, and help scientists collaborate in increasingly global and networked activities from discovery to manufacturing. That said, implementing an ELN is really just the first step in the information management journey necessary to optimize R&D discovery and development.
Faced with intense pressure to control costs and get more out of R&D investments, many life science companies have turned to outsourcing and contract research to stimulate pipelines. As a result, industry-leading pharma companies are focused on implementing R&D informatics collaboration platforms with integrated ELNs in order to aggregate data and drive research decisions.
While entering new data in their ELN experiments, scientists have to couple the data with results coming from their lab’s instruments, and also record source material ID from their inventory for traceability. They also have to add reference to previous experiments, owned by their company or created by third party labs (CRO, university research, common references such as ACD, etc.). Scientists usually know the source of the external data, but they are missing technical IT expertise to add it to their experiment in their ELN. This blog will illustrate how Pipeline Pilot acts as a bridge to combine the new experiment data and external data.
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