INTEGRATED LABORATORIES | LABORATORY INFORMATICS GUIDE 2014 Table 4: Potential integrated laboratory killer apps


Laboratory integration killer apps Archiving


The perception of data archiving is often related only to storing data. Having meta-data standards as part of the archive proce- dure, will enable data to be re-used for collaboration between different instruments in-house or externally with CROs


Data finder and data viewer Regulatory reviews


Reduction in (re)-qualification processes


The ability to do full context searching across heterogeneous data sources, across in-house and external data systems and archives and display in unified viewer


The ability to build and transmit to regulatory agencies a stan- dard data package for inspection without altering the underlying information (e.g. regulatory submissions, stability studies)


In a GxP environment, the ability to automatically update USP methods across individual instruments will significantly reduce the requalification process


incorporating these standards, scientists will be able to mine information from development and manufacturing for improved process and product design. In addition, information is more readily transferable between systems. For example, a recipe delivered in early development can be rapidly transferred to a lab execution system for API manufacture and then to a method execution system for mainstream


manufacturing. ERP and MES applications are using these standards and it is very likely that integrated laboratory data management capabilities will be included within their software capabilities.


CONCLUSION Empowered customers are disrupting every industry. Technology managers must broaden their agenda to consider not just


Brain Fog?


Access and Re-Use the Wealth of Knowledge Generated with Every Experiment


Unify Analytical and Chemical Data from different techniques/instruments in a single software environment


Generate Knowledge from Information with dynamic visualization tools and advanced algorithms


Create Intelligence to Gain Insights with instantly re-usable, searchable information stored from experiments


Integrate with existing LIMS, ELNs, and other informatics systems.


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infrastructure and traditional internal IT processes, but also activities to ensure they deliver value for their ‘client’.5


The power


of an integrated laboratory environment is its ability to find detailed answers to support the overall business process. It is pure waste to perform labour-intensive hunting for information across multi- vendor, multi-technique databases, manual transcription checking and to manually create reports. Having a common industry standard framework will decrease process variability resulting in better quality and overall consistency. Non-invasive processes have proven to be successful in other industries. It is now up to the industry, regulatory bodies and vendors of scientific instrumentation and software platforms to make it happen. Integrating laboratory information really means integrating scientific data collected in the laboratory and beyond. Time will tell if this industry has been able to adopt such a strategy. l


Peter Boogaard is an independent laboratory informatics consultant


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