LabWare is increasing its presence in the Biobank market sector and the company expects to see significant growth in this area during 2008
LabWare has expanded its Lims application library to include a specialised module for storage location management which is seamlessly integrated with LabWare's extensive Lims, study management and data acquisition capabilities.
LabWare is already achieving success in this area.
In a recent important project at Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, LabWare Lims is being deployed to support research and biobanking for research groups in Stockholm both at the Institute and related hospitals.
In addition to providing Storage Location Management features, LabWare Lims will also be used for donor management, plate management, analytical testing, document management and other activities.
The system will be used by many different laboratory and biobanking areas, all co-existing on a single shared database.
According to Nick Townsend, director life-sciences, LabWare, "We are witnessing a rapid increase in the number of Biobanks and many are eager to implement software to assist their work.
"Biobanks often have associated laboratory activities and at LabWare, we see the addition of storage location management as an exciting, highly complementary addition the range of capabilities offered by LabWare Lims.
"Furthermore, by basing our solution on LabWare Lims as opposed to developing a separate product, we are able to provide Biobank customers with an enormous range of pre-built and proven functional, regulatory compliance and architectural features used daily by thousands of LabWare Lims users worldwide, as well as enabling them to benefit from our extensive global support infrastructure".
