Day 1 of Lab of the Future meeting, Amsterdam Weather was just like Britain 🌧 ☂ but there were excellent talks and discussions With the various hype cycles across the industry, there was a good deal of realism around the importance of data as the primary value asset in R&D. •Adoption of Lab of Future […]
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Another year, another BioIT is over. It felt slightly strange to be having it in mid April compared to later May for the past few years. The first day even coincided with Boston marathon but our FAIR workshop coincided with that so could not watch. At least they had a reasonable weather day, not too hot and […]
BioIT 2024 Review – talks, themes, reflections
Informatics Reflections Summer 2023 A few things have caught our attention around applications and data management in the recent months from a recent conference plus the constantly changing updates to products and services and so some brief notes to share and discuss sometime The role of data management and the ability to make the most […]
Summer 2023 Informatics Reflections

Some reflections from day 1 of Lab of the Future at Welcome Genome Campus, Cambridge Wed 13 Nov 2019. What digital lab of the future could be & some key messages from the panels and speakers that included Bayer, Roche, AstraZeneca, GSK, Abbvie, Janssen, Leo Pharma & Benevolent AI etc Digital is not simply making […]
Lab of Future Congress Day 1: Nov 2019 Insights

Image from https://www.davidwolfe.com/medical-journal-studies-fake/ In a new article published on February 7 by Bio-IT World on potential use-cases and applications of blockchain, Richard Shute, Curlew Research Consultant, looks at how distributed ledger technology could be used to reduce the scourge of scientific data falsification.  In this extract Richard gives some background to the issue and hints at how […]
Scientific Data Doctoring: Could Blockchain Technology Help Stamp It Out?

 Amazon’s Alexa has become very popular as a Voice assistant and especially in the home over the last 18 months. Alexa Skills, the apps that can run on Alexa and integrate with other services have grown considerably.  In terms of market share, Alexa has over 15000 skills compared to the other platforms (Google Assistant and […]