Thermo Fisher Scientific has announced that it has been awarded a contract by the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine for its Nautilus laboratory information management system (LIMS).
The LIMS will be used in the medical school's spinal cord injury research.
During the project, scientists will integrate the Nautilus LIMS with other Thermo Scientific instrumentation and robotics to automate the high-content screening in the laboratories of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis at the Miller School.
The Miami Project team selected Nautilus LIMS because it believes it could help the team successfully keep abreast of the large volumes of data and keep track of the reagents in hundreds of 96-well plates.
During the selection process it also underscored the versatility of Nautilus and its proven ability to manage plate data and to adapt to the workflow needs of the academic laboratory.
Nautilus LIMS will sit at the heart of the laboratory's operations, and it will be integrated with Thermo Scientific Arrayscan and Cellomics Kineticscan instruments and robotics.
The scientists will use Nautilus LIMS to automate the high-content screens and assays including priotorised planning of experiments in the laboratory and, equally important, for raw materials inventory management to identify faulty reagent batches, which are impossible to track back through paper notebooks.
