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The Laboratory Informatics Guide 2009
is your must-have publication if you
CONTENTS
currently use – or are considering the
use of – laboratory informatics, and in
particular LIMS (Laboratory Information
The word is integration 4
Management Systems) and ELNs
Siân Harris discovers that the major
(Electronic Laboratory Notebooks). As
well as an insight into the capabilities
developments in LIMS centre on
S GUIDE 2009
and future of these essential lab tools,
integration capabilities.
the guide also provides you with a year-
TIC
round reference point, with information LIMS and business
about the latest products and a
management 8
comprehensive directory of suppliers – of
Greg Blackman looks at how LIMS
both LIMS and ELNs.
integrates with business and process
This year, the emerging theme within
management software packages.
LIMS is integration. Siân Harris, on page
4
4, asks the industry’s major suppliers for
LIMS product round-up 15
the current trends and their future plans.
Without exception, all believe that ease
Warren Clark summarises the range of
of integration will be the differentiator. LIMS products currently available.
TORY INFORMA
On page 8, Greg Blackman picks up
A
this theme and looks more specifi cally LIMS suppliers 20
at how LIMS integrates with enterprise
A comprehensive directory of LIMS
management software.
suppliers, consultants and integrators.
For ELNs, it’s a case of ‘this will be the
ABOR
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year’. More and more labs now feel
ELNs reach the
they can trust the functionality of ELNs
tipping point 26
– and just as importantly, the courts are
beginning to accept the security features
After many false dawns, John Trigg
that are built in. In the competitive world 15 believes the ELN market is on the verge of
of drug discovery in particular, it’s not just
maturity.
about the discovery, but proving you got
there fi rst. John Trigg, on page 26, takes
ELNs in action 28
a step back and assesses where we are
Greg Blackman looks at how ELNs are
in terms of market maturity for ELNs,
while on page 28, Greg Blackman looks
being used in labs.
at some working examples of how labs
are implementing ELNs.
ELN product round-up 30
You’ll fi nd plenty of useful information and
Warren Clark on the latest launches in
avenues to pursue if you want to learn
ELNs
more about how LIMS and ELNs can
make your organisation more effi cient.
ELN suppliers 33
WARREN CLARK
30
A comprehensive directory of ELN
providers.
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