Data pharming

Scientific Computing World (Jun 10 2009) Contract Labs , Pharmaceuticals , ELN, CDS , LIMS

Categories:
Industries: Biobanking, Biotechnology, Chemicals, Contract Labs, Environmental, Food & Beverage, Forensics, Metals & Mining, Oil & Gas, Petrochemical, Pharmaceuticals, Waste Water
Standards: 21 CFR Part 11, FDA, GLP, HACCP, ISO
Informatics Solutions: ELN, CDS, LIMS

Quotes

  1. “ Large pharmaceutical companies are beginning to change their working practices to make better use of the data gathered. ”
  2. “ Ninety per cent of procedures in QC laboratories are exactly the same, and therefore, recently, there has been an emergence of best practices in the QC environment in an effort to reduce costs and improve workflow efficiency. ”
    By Patrick Pijanowski
  3. “ This all centres on the industry's willingness to adopt best practices rather than spending time modelling site-specific procedures. ”
    By Patrick Pijanowski
  4. “ Being able to maintain the software internally is a big benefit for Astellas, as it allows the business to grow. That's not to say we're not working with LabWare on support issues, but maintenance can be carried out in-house. ”
  5. “ Pharmaceutical companies are forming strategic partnerships with contract organisations and trying to optimise information handover. ”
    By Trish Meek
  6. “ A number of large pharmaceutical companies are undergoing strong restructuring to change their whole research strategy so that they are collaborating more frequently with smaller companies. ”
  7. “ Smaller laboratories can adapt their processes to store data in the cloud, but larger organisations might find this more difficult. ”
    By Martin Wattin
  8. “ There is always a transition period and it will take time for the pharmaceutical industry to embrace the technology, but in the future the vast majority of companies could be storing data in the cloud. ”
    By Martin Wattin
  9. “ Drug companies are encouraged to adopt common methodology for testing procedures with a centralised system, so variables such as nomenclature and units of measurement are standardised across all sites. ”
  10. “ Paper notebooks can be amended whereas, using the ELN, the data cannot be manipulated and it's also stamped with the time and date. ”
    By Pranab Mukherjee
  11. “ The way the protocols are set up and the types of instrumentation used differ between bioanalytical testing and toxicology, for instance. ”

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