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LABORATORY INFORMATICS


Covid-19 accelerates the adoption of remote working tools


ROBERT ROE LOOKS AT HOW COVID-19 IS DRIVING CHANGES IN THE LABORATORY, INCLUDING TOOLS FOR REMOTE WORKING AND HUGE INCREASE IN DEMAND FOR TESTING COVID-19 SAMPLES


The pandemic is increasing demand for testing, genomics studies and vaccine and drug


development. To facilitate this research, and scale up testing capabilities, laboratory scientists are using laboratory information management system (LIMS) and electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) software to help manage collaborative work, and promote reduced-capacity working environments in the laboratory. Patrick Rose, digital science product manager at Thermo Fisher Scientific, notes that there has been a pivot in the tools used in laboratories due to Covid-19. ‘The labs are starting work leaner, they are having to collaborate with other partners, other contract research organisations [CROs] to help battle the pandemic and find the vaccine. ‘What we are seeing is an increased


need to work remotely due to alternating days, slimmer shifts trying to minimise the time people are in there together. But, they still need to work on their results, gather and share data and collaborate,’ added Rose. ‘So the tooling and solutions, like the LIMS that we offer, become more pivotal and critical. It is being able to see what other users have done – potentially what they may have done in the last shift, what you need to do for the next shift.’


22 Scientific Computing World Autumn 2020 Collaboration is also playing a big part


as CROs and other partners can help to take up extra workloads during peak times or enable organisations to work with disparate teams that are not using the same facilities to make up for the loss in staff numbers. ‘Scientists are using tools to take the data they are using in the lab to quickly write down their results, so they can then extrapolate when they are out of the lab, or in a more separated environment. They can still access all of their information and use it,’ added Rose. ‘We are also seeing labs driving tighter collaborations with CROs because of everything that is going on. There is this collaboration among companies that was unseen before, where everybody is working together to try to cure this. With everything going on in the world, it’s not just about the bottom line, it is about trying to help people, and get everybody back outside again.’ The increased demand for collaboration – either between organisations or just using tools to better facilitate a lean working environment for internal laboratory teams – means laboratory workflows can continue without major disruption. Lauren Taylor, digital science solutions manager at Thermo Fisher Scientific,


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