Thermo unveils LIMS for lab-based analysis
Management System (LIMS), its latest evolution in
commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) laboratory information management
systems for pharmaceutical manufacturing R&D and QA/QC.
The LIMS, called Darwin, has been developed to lower the cost, risk and time associated with implementations as well as the total cost of ownership (TCO) of modern LIMS solutions.
The importance of LIMS cannot be over emphasised as it streamlines the data flow centralising the information into one primary database.
In unifying vast and disparate volumes of biological and chemical data along with their related applications and tools, into a single, browser-based scientific interface, pharmaceutical companies have an effective system to manage the avalanche of data.
Darwin is supported by Thermo's helpdesk. This reduces on-site customisation, resulting in reduced costs, risks and time associated with implementation, training, validation, maintenance and upgrades.
In addition, Darwin is not limited to a restrictive sample-centric workflow. Darwin's product- and batch-oriented workflows allow R&D and production data to be logically organised, summarised and reported.
This allows users to work more effectively and providing managers with a broad view of the entire pharmaceutical manufacturing process.
Darwin has been created using the Microsoft .NET framework. This enables users to extend the system using industry standard tools, not a proprietary language that the vendor must teach key users of the system how to program.
Many of the LIMS products available for data management nowadays are built on an extensible life science-based data model where the platform understands the context of data being integrated.
The relationships between associated data, and allows scientists to use the platform to query, view, and analyse research data without being required to reformat their data-gathering methodology or change to multiple product interfaces.
All data deposited into the LIMS database can then be disbursed through electronic or hardcopy reports and queries. The LIMS thus becomes a comprehensive enterprise solution that enables researchers to conduct genomics, sequencing, gene expression, and proteomics experiments to more efficiently process millions of experiments per year.
For more information on Thermo's LIMS product, visit the company's website here.
