Analytical Laboratory Informatics

Analytical Laboratory Informatics - A Practical Approach analyses the whole laboratory information lifecycle. Covering all aspects of the generation and handling of laboratory data through reporting, knowledge harvesting to long-term storage and data migration. The authors have over twenty years as innovators in this field and know from personal pain the problems of keeping your data alive and accessible to your analytical packages and merging information sources to create corporate knowledge resources and driving standardization forward. The book covers all aspects of integration in the analytical laboratory, including detailing the challenges, the design of experiments, the use of spectral databases, regulatory considerations, chemometrics, data standards, integrating e-publication and laboratory automation.