Thermo Fisher Scientific has published a technical poster demonstrating how the Thermo Fisher Nautilus Lims has help accelerate discovery for the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis.
The technical poster is available free-of-charge at Thermo Fisher Scientific's website.
It was presented at the Lab Automation 2009 conference in Palm Springs, CA, and is entitled 'Integrating Informatics and High Content Screening to Find a Cure for Spinal Cord Injury'.
Co-authored by research scientists from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and senior technical managers from Thermo Fisher Scientific, the poster highlights the growing need to manage the large amounts of data generated in the screening of neurons undertaken during the Project's quest to promote nerve growth.
The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis sought a laboratory information management system (Lims) for its Lembix laboratory that would facilitate its laboratory workflows and automate its previously manual data-management processes.
With the increasing workload in its high-throughput laboratories, a single experiment can generate data from 300,000 neurons with 140 parameters per cell, and managers required an informatics solution that could manage the flow of data and enhance productivity.
Furthermore, laboratory managers needed to be able to readily access and analyse the data to provide them with knowledge that was previously difficult to acquire.
The new poster demonstrates how the laboratory implemented an informatics solution to manage the huge volumes of data generated by the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis in order to ease the administrative tasks of scientists so they could focus on the laboratory's goal of finding a cure.
Thermo Fisher introduced a workshop approach with the Lembix Laboratory to minimise costs and engage staff, while developing the best solution to integrate informatics in its high-content screening environment.
The Lembix laboratory implemented Thermo Scientific Nautilus Lims to improve productivity, and organise and improve the accuracy of its collected data.
The poster is ideal reading for scientists undertaking high volumes of screening and for academics in the translational science community confronted with the generation of large quantities of data.
