laboratory informatics
to-end capability the Enterprise Laboratory Platform.’ Te LabWare solution supports mobile
technologies for access and data-sampling in the field, a requirement that is a given for the environmental monitoring aspects relating to the agricultural industry, Gabathuler adds: ‘Te agricultural sector is ultimately concerned with its products out in the field, and much of the product- testing and marketed-product monitoring is, by its nature, carried out on site – oſten at multiple locations in different countries. We provide technology support for browser access as well as mobile apps for monitoring, sampling, and data logging in the field, with access to the LabWare system optimised for mobile platforms. Information recorded on site on mobile devices can simply be uploaded into the LabWare system and made available enterprise-wide, in real time.’
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handwritten notebooks are no longer needed for scientists to access and capture their research as it happens, with the GoR&D Cloud Platform for Agricultural Scientists
to their arable fields and livestock; and the breadth and scale of the informatics requirement becomes evident.’
Multidisciplinary client base LabWare works with industry, commercial, academic, and national government organisations and initiatives involved in just about every segment of agricultural sciences. Tis multidisciplinary client base has helped the company to evolve its core LabWare LIMS solution and electronic laboratory notebook (ELN). Gabathuler continues: ‘Our clients in diverse areas of agricultural analysis and R&D rely on the end-to-end nature of the LabWare LIMS and electronic laboratory notebook, which can drive and instruct workflows and seamlessly integrate data from multiple scientific and business areas and geographies. We term the this end-
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From ideation to commercialisation Paul Denny-Gouldson, VP Strategic Solutions at IDBS, reinforces Gabathuler’s sentiments on the diverse nature of agricultural R&D: ‘Tere is an exponential rise in the use of genomics and proteomics in agricultural sciences for engineering new strains. Data from each of these cross-functional R&D groups needs to be accessible for search and interrogation in a single, secure environment’. IDBS works closely with some of the world’s largest R&D organisations in the agricultural sciences arena, particularly in the areas of field trials, breeding, genealogy and testing, and crop optimisation (e.g. herbicides and pesticides). ‘Our E-WorkBook Suite offers applications that facilitate analysis, reporting and IP retention,’ Denny-Gouldson continues. ‘Te platform is designed to support data management and traceability through the whole process of ideation to commercialisation, and inherently provides an audit trail for the regulators. Uptake of our screening data management solution, ActivityBase, is also on the increase for use in applications such as screening for new natural products’.
Questions, questions … What is critical in agricultural sciences R&D is the ability to put data into context that will both help to direct commercialisation strategies and potentially drive the development of new products, Denny- Gouldson believes: ‘Our clients want to link up all the research information and data to help instruct commercialisation strategies.
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Tis is where a single infrastructure for data storage, management, aggregation, and mining becomes vital. Ongoing research will inform decisions on future product development and the commercialisation of near-market products. For example: “where are we going to sell it? What are the regulations in different geographies? How are we going to position the product with farmers?” Ten, further downstream, you need to be able to tie in data from real- world use of the product: “How successful is it? Can we optimise it further? Is there evidence of any detrimental effects on the environment? Is it more successful in specific geographical locations or under specific climatic conditions?” Our clients are
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basically saying that they want a “joined- up’ picture of their product, spanning development, manufacture, distribution, sales, and utilisation.’ Tis is particularly important from the
perspective of aggregating real world data from the field, adds Christine Zubris, US solutions consulting manager at IDBS: ‘We know that product development in the agricultural sector hinges on the ability to marry data from laboratory-based R&D with that from field trials, including small-scale greenhouse studies and large-scale field trials. Mobile computing is a must, but it is not necessarily the right strategy to give everyone the same mobile device. You need to know what will fit into an individual’s workflow before you decide what mobile device they need. At the most basic level, our clients require data capture resources, such as iPads, for inputting information in real time, but at other levels it may be necessary to provide mobile devices that can analyse, as well as log and store data.’
Mobile analysis for farmers Te ability to apply analytical technologies in the field using mobile instrumentation has filtered down to the farmers themselves, according to David Joyce, senior product manager for laboratory informatics at Termo Fisher Scientific: ‘Mobile technologies can be used to determine the content of green or grain feed, which can
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