Monday 6 August 2018

Working With A Lab Information System

By Robert Jones


In terms of physical abilities, humanity is at a massive disadvantage in comparison to literally every other animal on the planet with similar mass. Even when that comparison is whittled down to just the great apes, humankind is still at an overwhelming physical disadvantage. A human mixed martial artist, no matter how hard they train and how many performance enhancing drugs they take, is never going to win a straight fight against a gorilla or a bear. So, if they should ever find themselves in confrontation against one, it would be best to use a gun. And that is about the gist. That one tool is how humanity managed to become the undisputed top of the food chain. While humans did not get to have speed or strength, they did get to have brains, and they used the intellect that came with those brains to create tools, and those tools bridged the physical gap pretty easily. Nowadays, that intellect is driven to other scientific pursuits. But there are limits to the brain. In order to make sure that a brain is not overloaded with information or has to strain itself to be, a laboratory will make use of a lab information system.

An LIS is software. While there may be a physical competent to it, by and large, it will be digital. The digital aspect is in fact the meat and potatoes of it. Now, as the name would imply, it used largely in a laboratory.

The reason that they are needed is simple. Information needs to be easily accessible by all the people in the lab. It also needs to be safely stored, because no one wants to lose any progress.

Now, if there something out on the market, then there is going to be at least one alternative to that product. So, if there is one LIS on the market, there will be another. Both will be available for purchase. Now, before making that purchase, there will be some factors that must be considered before any money exchanges hands.

One very important thing to think about is how compatible it is with the hardware. The fact is that some systems will only work with certain machines. Some software will have some very specific hardware needs. Which is why the computers that are currently in the lab have to be a consideration, or they have to be replaced. If the software and the hardware are incompatible with each other, then neither will work properly.

Nothing in life is going to come for free. The developers who create an LIM are going to expect that the people who want their product are going to be willing to pay money for that product. This is because a developer is a business and has costs that it needs to pay.

Now, it has to function properly at all time. The software chosen must not be the kind that freezes up. Because then, productivity can slow down.

It is also important to back up data. The thing about the universe is that sometime the unexpected happens. So there has to be some steps taken to avoid the worst possible outcome if the unexpected does happen.

The thing about being alive was that it was never meant to be easy. But humanity was stubborn. So it went ahead and made it easy.




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