Laboratory Information Systems Link With Robotics

2007-05-02 10:04:19

( Pharmeceutical-Medical )



Research plays a very crucial role in today's world. The outputs of research are used in developing drugs, food products, chemicals for industries, and so many other products necessary to modern civilization. To help increase their outputs and contributions, many laboratories are now using the products of technology. You can now find laboratories that use robotics, to perform high-precision and repetitive work on samples, and laboratory information systems, to perform the analysis, management and storage of huge amounts of complex data.

You will see many laboratory information systems that are in use today being integrated with robotics. This integration is necessary because of the large volume of work in samples, experiments and other laboratory procedures that the robotics-assisted setup will generate. All of that data needs to be managed and stored in databases that facilitate easy retrieval. In addition, all of the work in progress needs to be monitored. Only a comprehensive laboratory information management system can help cope with the enormous volumes of data involved.

Laboratory information systems need to have built-in flexibility. Lab processes and the standards used in reporting experimental results can easily change over time. One laboratory environment, as in a pharmaceutical firm, may have different requirements from another lab, as in an agricultural chemical company; the requirements between departments of a diversified company may also be different. You thus understand the need for flexibility of the lims system.

Often, companies provide flexibility through bespoke systems instead of commercial off-the-shelf systems. But modern commercial laboratory information systems have developed the capability for client-server systems. This allows the information to be made available company-wide. These systems generally utilize open standards to permit integration to other applications and operation with other relational databases. More and more, you will see companies make the laboratory information systems accessible through web browsers, to make it easier to distribute the application.


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