On the topic of “Liberating Laboratory Data”, Dial-a-Molecule and AstraZeneca Macclesfield would like to announce the meetings:
Facilitating automated capture and use of laboratory data
&
Towards an open data description for Electronic Laboratory Notebooks
at AstraZeneca Macclesfield.
âDial-a-Moleculeâ is an EPSRC funded Grand Challenge Network with the aim:
âIn 20-40 years, scientists will be able to deliver any desired molecule within a timeframe useful to the end-user, using safe, economically viable and sustainable processes.â
Critical to achieving this challenge is to be able to reliably predict the outcome of novel reactions, with the implied ability to choose optimum conditions and to be able to repeat procedures accurately. A step change in the quality and quantity of information captured and made available on how processes are carried out, and what the outcomes are, is a necessary enabling step.
Laboratory equipment is becoming more automated enabling accurate control of parameters, and powerful in situ monitoring and sampling technologies have been developed. The number and variety of such data sources must increase rapidly and it is critical for future development that a âplug and playâ method for routing their output, in an openly usable form, into data handling packages (e.g. ELNs, LIMS) is defined.
Electronic laboratory notebooks (interpreted in the widest sense e.g. including LIMS) are extensively used in industry, and academia is expected to follow in the near future. Inevitably many different solutions have been, and will be adopted. We believe that it is critical to define and encourage adoption of an open standard for description of ELN data to allow its efficient re-use whatever the source. An open standard will also guard against loss of access to data from systems that become unsupported.
The purpose of the meeting is to establish the current âstate of the artâ in the above areas. Industry has invested significant effort in the area and we aim to establish the extent to which the outcomes may be shared and used as the basis for open standards.
Day one will focus on âFacilitating capture and use of machine generated dataâ and will include presentations from providers of current and potential solutions in the area. There will be an opportunity to see how a variety of laboratory automation and robotic systems are currently used at AZ. Â Discussions on likely future directions and possible ways forward leading to a generic data routing framework will follow.
Program – Day 1
| 11:00 | Arrival and registration |
| 11:30 | Tours of AZ labs & lunch |
| 13:00 | Welcome and introduction to the day |
| 13:20 | Generating knowledge and wisdom: ELN is just the start |
| John Leonard (AstraZeneca) | |
| 13:40 | Joachim Thewait (Accelrys) |
| 14:00 | Interface your instruments without a learning curve |
| Jeroen De Haas (Perkin Elmer) | |
| 14:20 | iC data center: connecting the lab with the office |
| Peter Hillberink (Mettler Toledo) | |
| 14:40 | Luc Moens (J&J) |
| 15:00 | Tea and coffee break |
| 15:30 | Tailoring an ELN for a multisite academic project |
| Murray Robertson (CMAC) | |
| 15:50 | The AnIML markup Language: (AnIML) for instrument data storage and access |
| Stuart Chalk (University of North Florida) | |
| 16:10 | LabBroker: The role and potential of data brokers and exchanges |
| Jeremy Frey (University of Southampton) | |
| 16:30 | Panel discussion session |
Day two will focus on âTowards an open data description for Electronic Laboratory Notebooksâ and follows from a meeting on the topic in December 2011 which led to a high level schema for describing an overall data structure. There will be presentations on current work and data descriptions used in the area (details of which will be circulated before the meeting) but the bulk of the meeting is expected to be detailed work on defining an initial draft of a data format definition.
Program Day 2:
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Organising Committee: Simon Coles, Richard Whitby, Jeremy Frey, & John Leonard
