eLab 3.1.1.10

eLab 3.1.1.10 offers you a useful management tool for your information. This is the powerful, easy to use Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) that improves sample throughput and reduces IT costs in a single compliant solution.

You can implement eLab as a simple sample storage solution or implement its full functionality to empower users to take control of the management of tasks, workflows, protocols and much more. A key motivation underlying the creation of eLab was a reduction in the regulatory compliance burden that is increasingly being placed on laboratories.

This is a modern work list orientated, protocol driven, customizable off-the-shelf Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) designed to improve sample throughput and reduce IT costs in a single industry compliant solution.
While designing eLab the team at eBioSys took on the challenge of making a LIMS system that was powerful and secure, yet simple to use. Building on recent advances in hardware and software the team has risen to the challenge of delivering a revolutionary user interface built on a next generation data management platform. The result is a system that allows users to get more out of their work and deliver better results faster.
In the world of modern laboratories the focus is on data quality. This is the world for which eLab was designed. We have made substantial investments to better connect users to their data and ensure the highest standards of industry compliance. In short you get more work done for less effort and achieve greater confidence in your results.
To meet business-critical operational requirements and maintain a competitive advantage laboratories are seeking to implement simpler and easier to manage systems that reduce acquisition and support costs while maintaining flexibility to meet changing business needs. eLab is the comprehensive, cost effective solution to laboratory information management.

eLab workflows define how activities are performed and are interrelated. The workflow builder graphical interface simplifies the creation of workflows by allowing users to drag and drop appropriate components from the workflow toolbox, set their properties, and link the components with constraints. Workflows are an effective method of enforcing business rules and improving laboratory practices. The true power of workflows is fully unleashed when they are applied to routine work.
Some of the key benefits of eLab workflows are:

• Process Control. Easily update and automatically disseminate changes to laboratory processes.
• Standardisation. Ensure that the same version of a process is applied to all samples at each stage of a project.
• Versioning. Automatically ensure that all changes to processes are clearly identifiable.
• Collaboration. Share your processes by importing and exporting workflows in the XML standard format.
• Quality Control. Ensure that your processes have gone through proper quality control before being elevated to production status.

Major Features:

1. The Menu System: The user interface has been separated into key areas of functionality by a set of tabs that when selected display the most relevant commands. Tabs are used to group commands for activities such as project management, sample search, and creating workflows. Each tab presents the appropriate commands as they are required, simplifying the operation of eLab and reducing the time required to master the system.
   Container-View vs. Data-View: When working with samples users have the option of working with virtual containers (container-view) or powerful data centric views (data-view). Container-views facilitate speed and accuracy of positioning samples, data-view helps users filter and sort samples based on the attached meta-data.
   Drag and Drop: Manipulate samples as you would at the bench using intuitive drag and drop techniques. Move samples within containers by simply selecting the samples you want and dragging. If you require more power a comprehensive menu system allows you to fine tune sample placement.
2. Sample Import: The import wizard empowers users to import sample data like never before. The wizard guides users through the process of specifying and uploading the required data into the system without the need to manipulate Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.
   Sample History: The sample history screen displays the passage of samples from one task to another and between users. Completely track the movement of your samples. Better understand how samples relate to one another and quickly isolate problematic samples or procedures.
3. Quality data: Increase your productivity and the quality of your data by using the one system to standardise your processes and flow of information between processes.
4. Protocol workflows: Protocol workflows assist task level activities by ensuring that users are presented with the most relevant sample, reagent, and procedural details when and where they are required.
   Method workflows: Method workflows automate the flow of samples from one protocol to the next. Integrating with project management this feature becomes a powerful tool that allows routine work to progress with minimal effort, but quickly highlights any potential problems.
5. Cost Effective: At around US$6,500 for the enterprise edition, including free support and maintenance, eLab is only a fraction of the cost of other systems. It is also likely to be cheaper than the cost of maintaining your existing information systems.
   
6. Security: Today's laboratories are increasingly exposed to internal and external security threats. In response we have undertaken considerable effort to protect your data. From early in the planning phase we concentrated on ensuring the confidentiality and integrity of data maintained by the system. Advanced code analysis and source control tools were employed during development to enforce the highest levels of code quality. The result is a product built from the ground up to be secure.
7. Share and Collaborate: The interoperability features of eLab allow you to leverage existing infrastructure to get the most out of your data and to collaborate better. Use eLab to gather, collect, and organize your data then choose from a wide selection of formats to export your data to the systems that you use for analysis or making business decisions. For example, eLab makes it simple to export sample and reagent data from a task for integration with robotics and other analytical instruments. Some of the common data types available for interoperability include: text, CSV, Microsoft Excel, XML, chromatogram, and common image types. 
8. Result and Document Management: eLab incorporates powerful, simple to use data and document storage capabilities. A wide range of documents and results can be securely uploaded into the system, alternatively create links to data maintained by your existing information storage infrastructure. Efficiently collect, organize and store data relating to your samples at each stage of the laboratory process.

• Integrated document management conveniently allows the attachment of all results when completing or undertaking tasks.
• Upload machine readable and human readable documents.
• The results screen allows for quick access to the relevant results through a hierarchical representation of the data attached to one or more samples or projects.
• Export your results to a location of your choice at anytime.
• Maintain better laboratory practices by ensuring a direct link between your samples and your data.
• Some common types that can be stored in eLab are text, images, sequences, chromatograms, Word and Excel files.

9. Tasks: When it's time to do manual work the task screen is the essential resource for rapidly completing assigned activities, providing immediate access to all the information users require.

• Samples selected from a work list or directly assigned to the task can be displayed in a visual representation of their storage containers or in a data centric view.
• Reagents are automatically filtered based on the applying protocol.
• Powerful data manipulation tools allow eLab to present the data in a format that is most relevant to your needs.
• Create and add visual representations of the actual containers that the work will be performed in.
• Manipulate samples as in real life by selecting and dragging them within containers.
• Identify and flag contaminated samples.
• Indicate the success or failure of each sample within a task.
• Rapidly create sample and container labels.
• Print the relevant protocols or proformas.
• Export data the way you want with a choice of Microsoft Excel, text, CSV, or XML based formats
• Position samples manually or with the assistance of patterns.

  10. A number of features help provide high levels of security for your data:

• A multi-tiered approach to data access implementing several separate layers of security.
• Fine-grained access control determines whether data is available to individuals, teams or roles.
• The installation wizard reduces the surface area of attacks by ensuring that only the features you need are installed.
• Enforced policies for logons, passwords and timeouts.
• Hashing of sensitive data to detect attempts to manipulate records.
• Comprehensive logging allows eLab to record all attempts to view, edit and insert data.
• Lock down of data ensuring that information can only be manipulated through the user interface.
• Each eLab installation runs from a secure per-user, per-application cache making eLab inherently isolated and contained.

11. Compliance:  A key motivation underlying the creation of eLab was a reduction in the regulatory compliance burden that is increasingly being placed on laboratories. eLab implements a numbers of features that assist labs achieve and maintain compliance:

• Comprehensive data retention mechanisms.
• Detailed logging and traceability.
• Procedural versioning.
• Document management tools.
• The ability to integrate Standard Operating Procedures into workflows.
• Timely visual identification of sample and procedural issues.

 WareSeeker Editor