Category Archives: Industry

“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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Responding to RFPs

By Simon Coles | Published: September 4, 2009
There are few things I find more painful than responding to RFPs. I’m sure writing them is difficult. But answering them is deeply frustrating – it’s being forced to have a one-way conversation about something where you really need to have a chat, which is much more my natural style. I remember once I turned [...]
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Economists, the Credit Crunch, and ELNs

By Simon Coles | Published: July 26, 2009
In today’s Sunday papers there is a story about a bunch of Economists writing to The Queen to explain why they missed the Credit Crunch. Here’s a shorter article by the Huffington Post which might appeal to US readers. It’s quite nice to have a Queen in such circumstances – she’s above it all (so there’s [...]
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