Combinatorial Chemistry and High Throughput Screening Focuses on the Changing Landscape in LIMS

Dr. Rathnam Chaguturu, Editor in Chief of the scientific journal Combinatorial Chemistry and High Throughput Screening, recently asked Carl Hull, UNIConnect’s VP of Sales, to serve as the guest editor of a special LIMS edition of the publication.  Scientists from the University of Miami, University of Kansas, The Broad Institute, and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Research Center were asked to contribute peer-review articles for the journal. (published in the November 2011 issue; Volume 14, Number 9).   Several UNIFlow customers also contributed by serving as referees in the peer review process.

In addition to serving as guest editor, Mr. Hull also published an article in collaboration with colleagues from Computype, a barcode automation company, and LSIT (now part of HIMSS – a healthcare information standards and improvement organization), a healthcare information standards and improvement organization.  The article, “Tracking and Controlling Everything that Affects Quality is the Key to a Quality Management System”, examines the complex needs that every laboratory should consider prior to embarking on a LIMS project.  Topics such as preventing mistakes, what to track and control, flexibility, hindsight vs. foresight, how to utilize barcodes, and the risk-based approach to IT projects, are all covered in the article.  To read the article, click here.