Starlims has announced that it is adding Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) functionalities to its laboratory informatics offering.
The company's ELN will be launched at Pittcon 2009, to be held at McCormick Place in Chicago on 9-13 March.
Starlims ELN eliminates the need to maintain cumbersome and inefficient paper notebooks, enabling labs to record data in electronic format.
Lost data and transcription errors are minimised; data storage and retrieval are streamlined; and information is disseminated as soon as it is created.
Starlims ELN maps each of the steps defined in a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) to an electronic worksheet, which ensures that all the required information is recorded, validated and carried out in strict compliance with the prescribed method.
The result is a complete electronic record detailing each step in the analytical procedure, together with all the required supporting information (for example, the materials, personnel, instruments and calculations employed in the process).
Starlims ELN is part of an integrated solution that includes Lims and SDMS.
As an entirely web-based application, Starlims provides immediate access to data and supporting documentation, for any authorised user enterprise-wide.
There is no need to maintain multiple computing platforms, applications or costly interfaces, or train users on the configuration, synchronisation and usage of multiple systems.
Depending on its specific priorities, each lab can select which components to implement first, and add functions as needed.
