Dotmatics' VP Rob Brown Quoted in 'Intelligent Integration' Article
Dr. Rob Brown, VP of Product Marketing at Dotmatics, explains in the Spring 2021 issue of Intelligent Integration that effective laboratory software integration requires linking structured data from ELNs with vast amounts of unstructured, proprietary-format data from automated instruments by parsing and appropriately connecting both data types within systems like LIMS or ELNs.
Intelligent Integration
Sophia Ktori continues the discussion on software integration in the laboratory in the Spring 2021 issue.
“In a real-world setting there are two types of data. You have the structured data, such as data in your ELN, but then you will also have the vast numbers of unstructured data files that are being generated by all of this automated instrumentation that labs now use. Typically these files may be output in proprietary, non-standardized formats, and the data contained will first need to be parsed out before being put into a LIMS, or an ELN..…the trick is to link the two types of data appropriately.”
— Dr Rob Brown, VP Product Marketing at Dotmatics
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