A Day in the Life of a Future Scientist in the Next Decade
Graham McGibbon shares his vision of what a lab of the future will look like, and how technology and shifting workflows affect the scientist's day-today-routine.
No Man Nor Organization is an Island | A Meditation on the Importance of Partnerships for Scientific Innovation
Graham McGibbon shares his thoughts on the importance of business partnerships as a means to advance scientific innovation.
The Land of Informatics & Life Sciences: Bio-IT World 2017
If you happen to be at Bio-IT World this year, be sure to stop by booth #423 to meet the ACD/Labs team and learn more about our solutions; including our new impurity profile information management solution Luminata. We’ll be busy with a number of activities in addition to networking with our fellow peers. Read on for an overview of what our team has planned for the show and where you can find us.
Analytical Data Science | Where Will It Go? Boldy…or Otherwise
The familiar crop of characters—Spock, Kirk, Uhura, McCoy, Sulu, Scotty, and Checkov—are understandably portrayed by different actors in the 2016 movie than in the origins of the STAR TREK franchise. Science fiction like this offers a view of the future imagined from past and present experience and it made me consider where data science is going, whether boldly or otherwise, and also, where it came from.
The Quest for the Successful Paperless Lab: Can We Overcome the Challenges?
There is widespread agreement that going digital will help us manage data better, make us more productive, more innovative and ultimately enable us to make smarter decisions—all the way from the bench to the boardroom. Yet, we remain relatively early in the transition from paper to paperless lab, despite the need for organizations to become more innovative and more competitive.
The journey to the idyllic informatics landscape…there is no one station
En route to SLAS 2016 in San Diego to talk about ‘Tackling Obstacles to Analytical Knowledge Externalization’ I was struck by the congruity of the breathtaking road I was taking with the topic planned for the Informatics–Data Wrangling session. National Geographic noted the road as “An exhilarating driving experience…In places, the road has narrow shoulders and sharp drop-offs, so stay alert”. The Informatics landscapes of modern science-based organizations also offer remarkable challenges to navigate.