LABORATORY INFORMATICS
Designing the lab of the future Robert Roe discusses the role of Pistoia Alliance in creating the lab of the future with Pistoia’s Nick Lynch
Part of the Pistoia Alliance’s strategy is to develop specific themes and areas of interest for the organisations members. One such theme, the ‘Lab of the Future’, (LotF) focuses on harnessing both available and future technologies to assist and accelerate laboratory operations. Adapting to meet the technological
requirements of the future is no easy task, so Pistoia and its members are focusing on addressing challenges with what is available today – in addition to looking at future technologies such as precision medicine and the use of AI. ‘The purpose of the Laboratory of the
Future (LotF) is to try and envision what a laboratory might look like in the years to come – partly because there are so
many potential technologies that are beginning to mature. Equally, we see other ways that people want to work because of collaborations or other technologies like tablet and mobile,’ said Nick Lynch, external advisor and liaison at the Pistoia Alliance.
‘It is a chance to put our thinking caps on and imagine what it might be like in five years’ time, but also to put some practical steps down as to what we should be doing to try out technologies and turn the vision into reality in a number of areas. That is why it is laid out more as a roadmap, we might not get there in one step but we want to explore the range of things as well as doing some practical activities in the short to medium term.’ This demonstrates the nature of the
project as there is no clear end goal but more a set of challenges that need to be overcome. As such there is no end
date to the project as it will continue until the Pistoia members are happy with the progress that has been made. If more challenges should arise in that time it is likely that they will also be included into the LotF theme. ‘We have got a number of threads within the LotF; in many ways it is a multi- tentacled beast. In terms of some of the practicalities we had a hackathon (a two- day event, and that was the attempt to try and turn things that are already here into example-use cases – to look at business questions and see how people working in teams can help solve some of those things
”It is a chance to put our thinking caps on and imagine what it might be like in five years’ time”
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