Labware has launched the Labware ELN product, a new entry in the Electronic Laboratory Notebook solution space.
Labware ELN is a key component of the company's Enterprise Laboratory Platform solution strategy.
The Enterprise Laboratory Platform refers to Labware's ability to deliver an integrated and scalable solution that has the functional breadth to span broad portions of a customer's business operations.
Labware ELN provides scientists and other laboratory personnel with the automation tools necessary to manage experiments, to properly execute tasks and to capture, preserve and safeguard intellectual property.
It is an experiment- and workflow-driven software application designed to give the laboratory scientist a platform to electronically document experiments, including relevant scientific content and observations, instrument results and attachments such as spectra, chromatograms and, if appropriate, chemical structures.
Labware ELN works with the company's flagship product, Labware LIMS, allowing any data within the laboratory information management system (LIMS) to be accessible by ELN and visa versa.
Most freestanding ELN products do not integrate well with LIMSs and often require the creation of a customised interface to achieve simple data exchange between the ELN and the LIMS.
Benefits of Labware ELN include the interface that exists between the two systems and the simplicity by which both LIMS data and LIMS functionality can be shared and leveraged from within Labware ELN.
The ability to interact with Labware LIMS and to utilise any data or content stored in the Labware LIMS relational database, including customer-defined fields, tables or record types, is at the heart of the power of Labware ELN.
As the user works in Labware ELN, he or she has the ability to select relevant records from the LIMS to document the experiment, such as instrumentation, standards or reagents and samples and tests.
Adding samples or tests to an ELN experiment is facilitated by mechanisms such as 'drag and drop', barcode scanning the samples into ELN or selecting the samples from a list.
Laboratories that work on GMP samples are required to follow standardised testing methods when testing samples in the laboratory.
Labware ELN can help an organisation to avoid these inefficiencies and costs by ensuring that laboratory technicians are performing standardised test methods according to the proper sequence of steps stipulated in the standard operating procedure (SOP).
Labware ELN can associate an SOP document with an experiment template and, using a straightforward tagging scheme, can then link specific steps in the SOP with sections of the experiment worksheet.
As the laboratory analyst completes a given step in the procedure, the next step can be visually presented to the user with the appropriate SOP instructions for performing that step.
