laboratory informatics
Looking towards the laboratories of the future
Jana Erjavec wonders why researchers are slow to adopt software for
electronic laboratory notebooks I
have had an opportunity to visit several life sciences trade shows and conferences in the past few months. Tere were vendors selling lab equipment,
soſtware, and consumables. Tere were visitors from pharma, CROs, university professors, students and lab managers. I was particularly interested to hear what people were saying about scientific soſtware – specifically, electronic lab notebook (ELN) systems. How do they think laboratories will change in the near or not so near future? Which are the buzzwords we should pay attention to?
30 SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING WORLD Te latest trends in life sciences include
interoperability, data integrity, soſtware as a platform and the Internet of Tings. Tere are big companies announcing joint projects, forming consortia and shaping new soſtware standards. Small companies are trying to differentiate themselves and, at the same time, offer new ideas that will follow the same common goal. However, everyone is forgetting one important fact. According to our latest market research
which included more than 500 laboratories, only eight per cent of researchers are using ELNs in their everyday laboratory routine.
And there are more than 60 ELNs on the market! It is much too early to throw around the big words if we have not mastered the basics yet. We asked ourselves, why are researchers so slow in adapting ELN soſtware? Firstly, researchers are not very inclined
to change their existing working habits. Tey are still attached to paper notebooks and despite the fact that they are using all kinds of apps in their daily lives, they still find paper as the best solution for working at the bench. Te second barrier is the
ONLY EIGHT PER CENT OF RESEARCHERS ARE USING ELNS IN THEIR EVERYDAY LABORATORY ROUTINE
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