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preserve and safeguard intellectual property. LabWare ELN is an experiment
and workflow driven software application designed to give the laboratory scientist a platform to document their experiments electronically, including relevant scientific content and observations, instrument results, and attachments such as spectra, chromatograms, and chemical structures where appropriate. LabWare ELN works seamlessly with LabWare LIMS, allowing any data within the LIMS to be accessible by the ELN and vice versa. Adding samples or tests to an ELN experiment is facilitated by simple-to-use mechanisms, such as drag and drop, bar-code scanning the samples into ELN, or selecting the samples from a list. Laboratories that work on GMP samples are required to follow standardised testing methods (STMs) when testing samples
STATISTICS
Integrated statistical and data analysis platform
Genedata has released Genedata Analyst, an integrated statistical and data analysis platform with advanced visualisation capabilities. The software is built on a client-server architecture and can handle huge and complex data sets of billion-plus data points while supporting small research groups or hundreds of users. Simultaneously managing data from different sources, it gives researchers and biostatisticians a secure and scalable data-mining platform, which can be integrated tightly with existing research IT ecosystems.
Genedata Analyst gives a broad range of scientists the capabilities for sophisticated data analysis. Combining the management of diverse data sources and
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types with data mining tools and knowledge management systems, the platform provides a comprehensive set of statistical approaches and interfaces to third-party algorithms. Features include context-sensitive help, guided workflows and carefully chosen default settings to provide enhanced usability, enabling non-expert users to access, use and benefit from statistical tools for data integration, mining and interpretation.
The platform is scalable
and can process large and complex datasets of many measurements, design factors, and covariates. More than a billion data points are supported with no limit on the number of observables, experiments or covariates. It provides advanced visualisation and standard tools include histograms, bar charts,
box plots, heat maps, scatter plots, trees, maps and parallel coordinate plots. Established general-purpose tools are provided, such as ANOVA, linear models, principal components and partial least square analysis, self-organising maps (SOM) and clustering methods together with advanced machine learning algorithms (LDA, SVM, KNN) for classification and prediction and tools for data normalisation, transformation and imputation. The platform is designed so
that a client-server application can support up to hundreds of users on standard hardware. Open technologies provide low TCO through public APIs that enable integration with in-house data warehouses, public data repositories, and third-party applications.
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in the laboratory. LabWare ELN can help an organisation to avoid these inefficiencies and costs by ensuring that laboratory technicians are performing standardised test methods according to the proper sequence of steps stipulated in the SOP. LabWare ELN can associate an SOP document with an experiment template and, using a very straightforward tagging scheme, can then link specific steps in the SOP with sections of the experiment worksheet. Thus as the laboratory analyst completes a given step in the procedure, the next step in the procedure can be visually presented to the user with the appropriate SOP instructions for performing that step.
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Fixed cost ELN package
Labtronics has introduced its Nexxis ELN Go Paperless Package – an all inclusive, fixed-cost package that aims to
takes laboratories from paper to paperless in three days. The company has developed a new process for converting all of a laboratory’s paper worksheets into electronic forms, ready to be used in Nexxis ELN. Thousands of paper worksheets can be converted in a couple of minutes. In addition to supplying a
fully implemented ELN, the package also includes Nexxis SDMS, Labtronics’ powerful and cost-effective scientific data management system that provides secure central storage and retrieval of all laboratory documents, including finished ELN worksheets. The Nexxis ELN Go Paperless
Package is an all-inclusive, fixed-cost package that delivers all of the software, all of the services and all of the training that laboratories need to make a real transformation in how they operate within a three-day period.
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LIMS
SaaS LIMS for all types and sizes
Thermo Fisher Scientific has launched LIMS-on-Demand, its software-as-a-service (SaaS), enterprise-class laboratory information management system. It allows organisations of varying types and sizes to leverage all the benefits of an industry-leading LIMS solution without the time and cost typically associated with on- premise software installation. LIMS-on-Demand can significantly reduce the capital investment associated with traditional LIMS implementation and validation by eliminating the need for extensive software testing and installation. On- demand access provides a more flexible alternative to conventional LIMS so organisations can more easily and cost-effectively adapt technology as needs change. For the cost of a monthly subscription fee, a laboratory can easily, affordably and securely access a fully-functional, validated solution through a standard web browser. The intuitive web interface enables connectivity with a variety of internal instruments and systems as well as external facilities, partners and regulatory agencies. LIMS-on-Demand offers flexibility and ease-of-use, helping organisations replace inefficient, error-prone manual processes with an automated data management solution. Customers can create workflows, map sample lifecycles and generate automatic updates while providing users with rapid access to up-to-the-minute data and information that impacts every phase of laboratory processes.
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Zero footprint LIMS
LabVantage has announced Sapphire Release 5.1, its zero footprint configurable off-the-shelf (COTS) LIMS that consolidates functionality typically found in
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