Besides Standards and Automation: an Experience with Census Databases

Collaboration with the Laboratory Automation Standards Foundation

This issue of the journal sees the first of what I hope will be many contributions from LASF-the Laboratory Automation and Standards Foundation. The LASF is one of many groups working towards the goal which readers of the journal share with me. People are approaching the ideal in a number of ways and it seems to me that one of the aims of the journal should be to share experiences and provide p...

Experience Report: Business Automation with Distributed Objects

A large financial institution was faced with the challenge of having to process twice the normal yearly workload without increasing their workforce. The challenge was met by reusing components of an existing object oriented application in a distributed, fully automated configuration. That solution is discussed, along with subsequent system architecture evolution, resulting improvements to devel...

Development of standards for laboratory automation.

In clinical laboratories, the installation of total laboratory automation systems and/or modular systems has grown dramatically in the 1990s, particularly in the US, Japan, and Europe. As the number of installations and level of interest grew, several individuals and corporations active in the automation field recognized that the development of prospective standards might enable customers of su...

Costs of Databases: Experience with POLYDOC Information Databases

Besides Imprinting

It is now firmly recognized that although the majority of mammalian genome is transcribed to RNA, protein-coding transcripts occupy only a minor part of mammalian transcriptome. Instead, increasing evidence suggests that the majority of mammalian RNAs is comprised noncoding RNAs (ncRNAs). ncRNAs are a diverse class of RNAs with many subclasses involved in a wide variety of physiological functio...