Driving pharma lab digitalization forward with LIMS

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The digitalization battle in pharmaceutical labs has heated up in recent years. Factors contributing to the trend include mounting pressures of rapid technological evolution, increasing regulatory requirements and a growing demand for efficiency and accuracy in all facets of laboratory operations. A central player in this transformative journey is the laboratory information management system (LIMS), a digital platform designed to manage all the data and processes in a lab, from sample tracking to reporting and quality control.

While LIMS is a game-changer for the pharma industry, with the potential to dramatically increase productivity, reduce errors and ensure compliance with regulatory standards, many labs are lagging in terms of LIMS adoption. The reasons for this are far ranging, including from financial constraints to fear of change and a lack of understanding about the benefits of…

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Opentrons Flex flexes the power of AI in lab automation

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Queens-based lab automation company Opentrons has debuted its new Flex robot, with the aim of broadening access to advanced lab automation for life scientists. In a recent email interview, Opentrons CEO, Jonathan Brennan-Badal, highlighted that the Opentrons Flex robot is designed to offer a technically sophisticated, yet economically accessible automation platform for life scientists. The robot is designed to execute a variety of experiments, including those designed by large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT, he noted.

AI-generated automated protocols for life sciences

“Without wanting to be hyperbolic, LLMs will revolutionize how we design automated protocols in the life sciences,” Brennan-Badal explained. Opentrons’ compatibility with LLMs makes it possible to create “AI-generated automated protocols for every well-documented manual experiment in the scientif…

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