Welcome to the CSols blog. Stop by often to learn what CSols experts — the industry’s most trusted advisors — have to say about current laboratory informatics topics. We post about twice a month on subjects ranging from high-level overviews to detailed, technical explanations.
One reason that informatics projects are often challenging for everyone involved is that their requirements are not well understood at the outset. This is a common situation and should not be seen as a failure by the organization. Informatics projects may be a once-in-a-career occurrence for the individuals involved, so unfamiliarity with the project’s true… Read More
In the rapidly evolving life sciences industry, access to historical data is crucial for operations from research to drug development, manufacturing, and clinical trials. However, the necessary data often resides in disparate systems, formats, and locations, making it challenging (and expensive) to harness its full potential. This is where ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) processes come… Read More
Complex and large life sciences informatics projects are intimidating but sometimes unavoidable. As many life sciences organizations have grown, they have accrued various informatics systems that can create data silos, inefficient workflows, and roadblocks to meeting stringent U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations or getting value from their data. It can be hard to… Read More
The fictional pirate Captain Jack Sparrow once said, “Wherever we want to go, we go. That’s what a ship is, you know. It’s not just a keel and a hull and a deck and sails. That’s what a ship needs. But what a ship is…what the Black Pearl really is…is freedom.” Similar sentiments can be… Read More
LabWare LIMS™, out of the box (OOTB), leverages the power of a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) and the knowledge within your lab, as well as your users. An essential part of LabWare LIMS is its templates. Don’t succumb to using default template solutions from your initial LabWare implementation when there are options to tweak… Read More