Category Archives: Industry

Electronic Laboratory Notebook Group on LinkedIn

By Simon Coles | Published: February 3, 2010
My experience on the Internet to date has led me to prefer open, blog-based mechanisms for an Industry “Conversation” rather than the closed world of LinkedIn groups or indeed any other forum format. Each participant has their own platform and their interests/biases are plain to see and the readers can make their own informed judgements. [...]
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Presentation: Survey of the ELN Landscape

By Simon Coles | Published: January 27, 2010
Here’s my presentation on “Surveying the ELN Landscape” from the SMI ELN Conference in London today. Bullet points: Business drivers Comparing the different sectors and disciplines Build or buy? An overview of the solution space Patterns of success There’s a few concepts in here which deserve their own posts (presentations are so useful for stimulating [...]
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“Chairman’s Opening Remarks” from SMI ELN Conference in London

By Simon Coles | Published: January 27, 2010
I’m chairing the first day of the SMI ELN Conference in London today. Which truth be told isn’t something I enjoy but hopefully I can add something. Anyway, you have to give a 10 minute presentation talking about wider industry issues and I thought it was appropriate to draw people’s attention to what’s happening in [...]
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Brief thoughts on the future of scientific UIs

By Simon Coles | Published: December 22, 2009
I’m not a great fan of the term “ELN” despite the name of this blog, only because it means too many different things to many different people. As such it confuses things rather than aids communication. Having said that, whilst I believe we’ve done a really good job in PatentSafe replacing the corporate aspects (record [...]
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“Networked Laboratory Information”

By Simon Coles | Published: October 1, 2009
Over on Depth-First Rich Apodaca picks up on the problems with the “ELN” word and as a thought experiment makes a proposal for “Networked Laboratory Information” as being a starting point for thinking about Lab Informatics (as opposed to starting from something centred around the Lab Notebook): This discussion will start out with identifying the many [...]
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