Merck KGaA

We’ve come a long way from the earliest days of synthesis planning. Though ambitions of alchemical transmutation from base elements such as lead, to precious metals such as gold, have long since passed, the modern chemist still labors over a different kind of bubbling cauldron – one of cheminformatics.

Many laboratories today seem to fall into one of two extremes for data management: at one end, those that labor under complex, costly and customized IT infrastructures, such as LIMS or SDMS. At the other end are labs that still rely on pencil and paper notebooks, manual transcription, and basic Office tools. In this paper we will explore the need for new alternatives that support data integrity and interoperability with common scientific instruments, but with a low burden for IT installation.

This whitepaper presents an overview of the main inventory management challenges faced by fast-paced biotech and pharmaceutical laboratories, highlighting how this directly impacts research outcomes, costs and regulatory compliance.

This whitepaper presents an overview of AnIML, the Analytical Information Markup Language. It is intended to assist decision makers who are evaluating the use of AnIML as a data format.