When it comes to LIMS implementation methodologies there seems to be as many as there are stars in the heavens.  At least it can seem that way, especially if you consider the various LIMS vendors’ branded methodologies.  However, if you take a careful look at all these, you can categorize them into 4 main categories;… Read More

Congratulations!  Your laboratory organization has gone through the process of documenting your lab processes, workflows, and data flows as well as your lab and business needs.  You have leveraged all this information to drive your laboratory informatics system selection process and you have chosen a commercial off the shelf Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS).  The… Read More

Scientific pursuits in R&D and QC laboratories over the last decades have been greatly assisted by the introduction and use of new and increasingly sophisticated instruments, techniques, and technologies.  This is good news, but this increase in capability has also created ever increasing amounts of laboratory data and information.  More data and information have driven… Read More

Is there a space-time anomaly in the instrument interfacing world?  If you were to do a Google search on Interfacing Lab Instruments to LIMS or ELN you would find fascinating, inspiring, and thoughtful articles and several product advertisements. The issues and challenges in interfacing lab instruments to LIMS (and now ELNs), however, appear to be… Read More

It’s a funny thing but if you ask anyone who has been involved in the LIMS industry for any length of time, they will uniformly agree that Phase 2 of LIMS implementation projects rarely, if ever, come to fruition. Is this because breaking a LIMS implementation into multiple phases is wrong? Not really. There are perfectly… Read More