Laboratory Informatics

This white paper provides an account of three transformational projects undertaken in three intensely competitive industries. You’ll meet a paperless biotechnology startup, a titan of the consumer goods industry, and a leading chemical company, each showing a possible way forward for others who seek the speed and agility of tech-enabled business harmonisation.

A Laboratory Information Management System or LIMS is a safe, efficient and affordable digital solution to laboratory management. Using a LIMS, you can collect data and manage your lab processes easily, giving you more time to focus on making new discoveries or ensuring quality products.

This report assesses the progress achieved and plans for near-term activities among laboratories in six subsectors within the broader classification of Life Sciences organisations: Biotechnology, Biomedical Research, Clinical Research Institutions, Contract Manufacturing Organisations, Contract Research Organisations, and Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturing.

Combined, these six enterprise types comprise the majority of laboratory environments and missions among the Life Science professionals participating in this year’s survey.

RCH Solutions supports the adoption of novel computing technologies such as cloud, quantum, AI and edge computing paradigms through a comprehensive suite of strategic advisory and purpose-built managed services to help R&D teams in the Life Sciences modernise their computing environment and accelerate their research goals.

This white paper draws on Titian Software’s long running partnerships with multiple vendors of laboratory automation and its extensive experience of implementing sample management systems for organisations of all sizes, plus the author’s 40 years’ experience in the pharmaceutical and software industries. The principles of good sample management hold for any life sciences laboratory: from a small academic laboratory using manual pipetting methods with human tissue samples, to enterprise environments with multiple complex instruments to manage and supply millions of small molecules.

This white paper looks at the different approaches to integration and questions to consider when integrating liquid handling equipment in your lab

This section of the white paper explores how these different levels of integration apply to both automated stores and to manual processes.