Enhancing Drug Discovery with BIOVIA Pipeline Pilot
The chances for a drug candidate entering a preclinical trial to eventually pass the FDA approval stage and make it to market are exceptionally grim – only 1 in 5,000 successfully complete the journey. Additionally, the entire process of bringing a new drug to market takes roughly 12 years on average, while the US Department […]
Optimize Lab Efficiency Using LabWare KPI Dashboards
Modern-day laboratories are experiencing record volumes of samples to process and test. Labs need to process these samples effectively and efficiently, but how is performance easily measured? Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) measure laboratory performance and help paint a picture of what is truly happening in the lab. KPIs can also provide insight into continuous improvement […]
Factors to Consider When Choosing Between an On-Premise, Managed Hosting, or SaaS LIMS
Laboratory information management systems (LIMS) capabilities have expanded dramatically in recent years in order to better serve scientific laboratories. As LIMS technology has changed, so has the number of factors that need to be considered when choosing the best LIMS for your laboratory. A variety of different architectures are now available for modern LIMS, and […]
Astrix On Demand Webinar with Dassault Systems – Lab Testing in the 21st Century
New On-Demand Webinar from Astrix and Dassault Systemès/ BIOVIA Labs in the 21st century are not working as they did in the past. Workflows are digital and connected, environments are harmonized and standardized, lab scientists are collaborating across borders. This requires an intelligent scientific platform that is aware of the context in which scientists operate. […]
Commmon Causes of LIMS Implementation Failures
A LIMS Implementation Failure can side track your R&D Efforts Due to the complex processes and technologies utilized in labs, and the many different aspects of the enterprise that laboratory systems touch, success in laboratory information management system (LIMS) projects can be difficult to achieve. A Successful LIMS Implementation project, in this case, is defined […]
Moving Your LIMS to the Cloud: What You Need to Know
Modern laboratories in all industries are under intense pressure to reduce costs and improve operational efficiency, while at the same time enhancing quality and maintaining regulatory compliance. Additionally, the rise of R&D externalization strategies and contract research organizations (CROs) in the pharmaceutical industry has resulted in labs collecting large amounts of data from multiple partners, […]
SampleManager LIMS Matrix Components
Thermo Fisher Scientific’s SampleManager LIMS™ offers an extensive array of features and capabilities that can benefit your organization. SampleManager’s open architecture provides the tools necessary to transform isolated laboratory data siloes into a connected, global knowledge base that can be viewed and shared across the wider organization, from R&D to manufacturing. SampleManager LIMS provides instrument […]
Tips for Using Biovia Pipeline Pilot as an Integration Platform
One of the most common integration platforms used in laboratory informatics is Pipeline Pilot from BIOVIA. Whether part of a large enterprise software implementation or a project to pass data between two applications, integration projects always present challenges. In the laboratory environment, achieving integration goes beyond merely exchanging data between applications. Laboratory equipment/automation, specialized data […]
Tips for Upgrading Your Waters Empower System
Waters Empower 3 is a chromatography data system (CDS) that links to chromatographic instruments to help facilitate management of chromatography test results through data acquisition, processing, reporting and distribution. Empower 3 generates lots of data with complex calculations and detailed reports and has several tools that address compliance and data integrity concerns such as electronic […]
The Benefits of Choosing an Expert Informatics Consultant to Manage your LIMS Deployment
Selecting and deploying a LIMS is a complex undertaking for today’s scientific organizations. The common failure point of a LIMS project is due to the lack of a dedicated, experienced LIMS program manager (PM) in place at the start of the project. Choosing the right LIMS PM and deployment team to ensure that you have […]
Benefits and Best Practices for LIMS Implementation in Cannabis Testing Labs
Cannabis (aka hemp or marijuana) is a wind-pollinating genus of flowering plants in the family Cannabaceae. This complex plant contains a group of chemicals known as cannabinoids, many of which have shown significant biological activity. Two cannabinoids in particular, cannabidiol (CBD) and delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), have gained much recognition for their mental and physical effects when […]
Case Study: LabVantage LIMS Biobanking Validation for a Contract Research Organization
Overview A contract research organization (CRO) providing full-service clinical development services to biopharmaceutical and medical device sponsors was interested in implementing one centralized system to manage their biorepository. They choose to install the LabVantage pre-packaged LIMS designed for biobanking (LabVantage Biobanking), as this system is pre-configured to address all aspects of biorepository management. The customer worked with […]