IDBS has expanded its Asia Pacific presence with new centres in China and Australia, providing direct local support and training, along with sales and business development for the entire portfolio of IDBS products
Chris Denly has been appointed as sales manager, maths and simulation at Adept Scientific
Radiochromatography specialist LabLogic Systems has appointed Bernard Sellier as sole distributor of its software and instrumentation in France
Platform Computing has appointed Jeffrey Galin as vice president of sales for Platform ISF, its private cloud management software, and Phil Morris as chief technology officer for its HPC business unit
Strand Life Sciences has appointed Thon de Boer, formerly of Agilent Technology, as its senior director of product management, software
George Shanks has been appointed CEO of Dezineforce, the provider of advanced design optimisation tools. Former CEO Dr Peter Collins moves to commercial director and will continue to serve on the board
OCF, the UK HPC integrator, has appointed former SGI and ClusterVision sales specialist Georgina Ellis as sales executive, with a primary focus on maintaining and growing OCF's presence in the academic research community
Symyx has expanded its European operation with several new appointments, including the promotion of Julie Page to head the European office
Platform Computing has appointed John Egan to its board of directors. Egan will use his experience with EMC and VMware to provide guidance to Platform
Platform Computing, a leader in grid and cloud computing software, has appointed Ram Gupta to its board of directors.
Building a Smart Laboratory 2018 highlights the importance of adopting smart laboratory technology, as well as pointing out the challenges and pitfalls of the process
Informatics experts share their experiences on the implementing new technologies and manging change in the modern laboratory
This chapter will consider the different classes of instruments and computerised instrument systems to be found in laboratories and the role they play in computerised experiments and sample processing – and the steady progress towards all-electronic laboratories.
This chapter considers how the smart laboratory contributes to the requirements of a knowledge eco-system, and the practical consequences of joined-up science. Knowledge management describes the processes that bring people and information together to address the acquisition, processing, storage, use, and re-use of knowledge to develop understanding and to create value
This chapter takes the theme of knowledge management beyond document handling into the analysis and mining of data. Technology by itself is not enough – laboratory staff need to understand the output from the data analysis tools – and so data analytics must be considered holistically, starting with the design of the experiment