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| Stem Cell Fate: New method decodes movements, predicts how cells will divide |
| Researchers have discovered a new method for predicting, with up to 99 percent accuracy, the fate of stem cells. Using advanced computer vision technology to detect subtle cell movements that are impossible to discern with the human eye, they can successfully forecast how a stem cell will split and what key characteristics the daughter cells will exhibit ...continue |
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| Studying Protein Folding, Dynamics in Living Cells |
| A new technique to study protein dynamics in living cells has been created by a team of scientists, and evidence yielded from the new method indicates that an in vivo environment strongly modulates a protein’s stability and folding rate ...continue |
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| PANGAEA Earth System Research Data Directly Linked to Elsevier Articles |
| Elsevier has announced that the data library PANGAEA — Publishing Network for Geoscientific & Environmental Data — and Elsevier have implemented reciprocal linking between their respective content in earth system research. Research data sets deposited at PANGAEA are now automatically linked to the corresponding articles in Elsevier journals on its electronic platform ScienceDirect and vice versa ...continue |
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| Scientific Data Deluge Curated for Long-term Use |
| With the world awash in information, curating all the scientifically relevant bits and bytes is an important task, especially given digital data’s increasing importance as the raw materials for new scientific discoveries. Data curation –- the active and ongoing management of data through their lifecycle of interest to science –- is now understood to be an important part of supporting and advancing research ...continue |
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| Probing Cell Clusters to Investigate Creation of Biological Machines |
| A new $25-million Emergent Behaviors of Integrated Cellular Systems Center aims to advance research in complex biological systems, create new educational programs based on this research, and demonstrate leadership in its involvement of groups traditionally underrepresented in science and engineering ...continue |
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| Pinch Away the Pain? Scorpion venom could be alternative to morphine |
| Scorpion venom is notoriously poisonous — but it might be used as an alternative to dangerous and addictive painkillers, like morphine, a Tel Aviv University researcher claims. He is investigating new ways for developing a novel painkiller based on natural compounds found in the venom of scorpions ...continue |
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| ARTICLES |
| Thinking Beyond ELN |
A look at the informatics architecture model
Michael H. Elliott
Over the course of the last three years, electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) products have expanded their core capabilities to include functionality not envisaged in the early days of the “paper replacement” ELN. With the introduction of LIMS-like features, such as structured data management, request management, reporting, task workflow automation and new application modules, ELN is offering benefits across a wide range of laboratory types ...continue |
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| Validation Update: State of the Art 2009 |
Lack of documentation, system validation reflect all too common uncertainty
Sandy Weinberg, Ph.D. and Ron Fuqua, Ph.D.
The United States Food and Drug Administration has promulgated standards for the testing and management control of computer systems used in clinical testing, manufacturing execution systems (MES), laboratory information management systems (LIMS), computerized medical devices and other systems since 1985. This year is the fifth anniversary of the most recent formalization of those requirements, found in 21 CFR Part 11 ...continue |
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| Animal Stories: Justifying LIMS is a vicious and cruel task |
Those who best articulate benefits stand a chance, even in thin-budget times
Randy C. Hice
Animal stories make my day in the Denver Post each morning. The latest involved a lady walking to her car in Evergreen who was attacked in a parking lot by an elk. Now, elk are like deer on anabolic steroids, and there’s no joy in getting on their bad side ...continue |
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| Take Me Out to the Ball Game: Three regulatory scenarios |
If rules directly impact on life and death, wouldn’t you prefer an independent Umpire?
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Sandy Weinberg, Ph.D., and Ron Fuqua, Ph.D.
 There are three major pharmaceutical regulatory scenarios operating in different parts of the globe. If an organization is trying, with all good intentions, to conform to the regulatory requirements for a laboratory information management system (or any other aspect of regulated operations) understanding which scenario is in play is an excellent first step ...continue |
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| A New Snowboard will not Save Me |
Why meet and greet conferences don’t pay off
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Randy C. Hice
 Snowboarding has a much higher learning curve than skiing, largely due to the asymmetry of the techniques involved to successfully aim a small flat missile down a steep mountain, with your feet locked into bindings that do not release ...continue |
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| 10 Product Selection Tips |
Gloria Metrick
Stop! Read this list before making your next software purchase
The tips that follow are designed to help you select your next informatics product or other software you may plan to purchase ...continue |
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| PRODUCTS |
| Nova-LIMS |
| Nova-LIMS is an out-of-the-box Laboratory Information Management software solution that can be tailored to meet specific customer requirements. This client/server product is a process-driven solution that is 21 CFR Part 11 compliant and enforces current and good manufacturing practices ...continue |
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| Omega 11 |
| Omega 11 laboratory software provides a comprehensive tool that handles all phases of laboratory operations, from quotation to final report and invoice ...continue |
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| Matrix Express |
| Matrix Express offers a low cost entry level LIMS suitable for the smaller laboratory or single department within a larger organization. Matrix Express provides all of the key functions expected of a LIMS ...continue |
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| Instrument Control Framework |
| The Instrument Control Framework (ICF), is a software component making it faster and easier for third-party software to enable and control liquid chromatography systems in chromatographic data systems or workstations ...continue |
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| LabWare ELN |
| LabWare ELN provides scientists and other laboratory personnel with the automation tools necessary to manage experiments, properly execute tasks and capture, preserve and safeguard intellectual property ...continue |
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| VersaLIMS.NET |
| This modular self-contained Laboratory Data Management System is designed to deliver the level of data management required by small to medium sized labs. The VersaLIMS.NET base system includes a PC, barcode reader, barcode printer and the core VersaLIMS.NET software ...continue |
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