ACD/Labs' Pre-Conference Workshop: April 23, 2007
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| Time: | 12.30 – 15.30 |
| Title: | Enabling collaborative science via the integration of analytical data into organisational systems: Enhancing the value of Electronic Notebooks and LIMS systems |
| Abstract: | In recent years the investment in both the development and deployment of Electronic Notebooks (ELNs) has amounted to many tens of millions of dollars. These tools have surpassed the previous promises made by Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) to the R&D laboratories. The majority of LIMS systems were not enabled for the research environment and lacked the fundamental need of chemical structure and reaction handling required by chemists, this responsibility being delegated to the structure registry systems. While LIMS workflows could be implemented in a flexible manner, and the majority of electronic notebooks available today are more constrained, it is the mirroring of the majority of a chemist's processes to manage projects; reactions and synthetic planning that have made these tools acceptable. The driving force for ELNs for most organizations is the traceability and protection of intellectual property. However, chemists have in general willingly adopted such solutions since they offer access to tools that facilitate reaction planning and access to organizational data that can reduce rework and enable faster and better decision making. LIMS are still in vogue in other areas of an organization, generally outside of the research and discovery environment. These systems are generally more accountable for regulatory compliance issues and are commonly constrained to alphanumeric text management and rudimentary management of quality control data.
In the world of R&D there is hardly any process or activity in the laboratory that is not associated with the generation of some form of analytical data. Such data will be used for the purpose of chemical structure identification or for the extraction of other qualitative or quantitative information. While these data form the basis of the majority of decisions for a chemist, whether it be for the confirmation of product from a synthetic reaction, the performance of a compound in a specific bioassay, the identification of purity or presence, the links to such data are tentative at best. This workshop will provide an overview of scenarios, approaches and associated technologies that have been applied to facilitate the deep integration of chemical structure with analytical data as well as the ability to integrate a plethora of diverse data types into a single repository and across ELNs and LIMS systems. This forum will engage the audience in a discussion and review of the following issues:
- The additional value that can be extracted from software solutions providing integration between chemical structures and analytical data
- Enabling improved decision making - supporting chemists in their analysis of analytical data
- Balancing technology, processes and people to develop best practices in analytical data review
- Archival systems versus analytical database management systems
- The business advantages of integrating electronic notebooks, compound registries and LIMS systems via associated analytical data
- Are the needs of R&D laboratories met by classical LIMS systems?
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| Led by: | Guy Desmarquets, Director of European Operations, ACD/Labs
Karim Kassam, Senior Application Scientist, ACD/Labs
Antony Williams, VP & Chief Science Office, ACD/Labs |
To register for our workshop, please visit the conference's website listed below:
http://www.iqpc.com/cgi-bin/templates/singlecell.html?topic=546&event=12039
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