LIMS and ELNs – Multimedia

MAB Discovery GmbH developped a highly integrated process which provides diverse antibodies by starting with a high number of B cells and filtering the relevant antibodies by an early-on functional screening.

Aspiring to satisfy the criteria for laboratory accreditation, Anglo American Research Labs searched for an ISO 17025 “ready” LIMS. STARLIMS aided in automating the lab to conform to ISO 17025 standards.

Seeking a replacement for their internally developed LIMS, ChevronTexaco selected STARLIMS to standardize five domestic US refinery plants. The system is presently in production concurrently at all five sites, with 2,500 users.

The Pacific Environmental Science Centre (PESC) had been using a LIMS developed in the 1970s but, with multi-functionality required, covering 105 applications, and with 12 functional areas of the laboratory and around 500,000 tests conducted per year, the system was becoming increasingly more difficult and time-consuming to maintain.

Today’s laboratories are struggling to find ways to effectively solve their two most important issues: addressing regulatory compliance, including 21 CFR Part 11, and improving inefficient processes. Fortitech Inc.’s burgeoning task of managing and documenting ingredient blend quality procedures, invoked an initiative to fully automate lab operations.

This poster describes a section of BioFocus’s screening workfolow where mosquito X1 is integrated with a RapidStak plate stacker (Thermo Scientific) using TTP LabTech’s CherryPicker software. This allows the mosquito X1 to work unattended for extended periods. The CherryPicker software drives the system automatically by converting pick lists provided by BioFocus’ LIMS system into mosquito protocols, and feeding appropriate plates via the RapidStak.

LIMS are useful in managing certain types of data for quality management and sample tracking. However, these systems are generally limited in the types of information they can process and store. A unique automated quality management system has been developed and implemented at a fragrance manufacturer to evaluate chromatographic and spectral data of samples during quality testing.

In mid-2009 The Nickerson Lab in the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington faced the daunting task of rapidly scaling up their next generation sequencing laboratory. Given the enormous amount of data to be generated, a critical part of this scale-up was picking the right LIMS solution. This system needed to handle data flow from sample submission to results reporting.