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The minute you digitize it , you are democratizing data , which means , is now accessible
Dr Prabuddha Kundu , Managing Director , Premas Biotech
Dr Prabuddha Kundu , Managing Director , Premas Biotech believes that scientists are both generators and consumers of data .
“ It is when data becomes information that it becomes useful , and this is what I ’ ve truly believed . That and this is where smart labs are going to make a difference , because we know our data is stuck as information in a LNB . It ’ s not accessible . It ’ s not democratic . The minute you digitize it , you are democratizing data , which means , is now accessible . Across the organization , across geographies , at any time I may want it at 9:00 o ’ clock I may want it at 6:00 AM . It ’ s available to me . Then I am not dependent on anybody at any point of time to get access to that data ,” opines Dr Kundu .
Maximizing lab productivity
Sharing his perspective , Dr Taslimarif Sayied , CEO & Director , C-CAMP says , “ When I learned my mammalian cell culture , we used
to be in that closed chamber for hours to carry out primary cultures and then put them on a CO2 incubator and then watch them over . Nowadays , at least in a few places it is not done by humans but completely by smart machines which have taken over , which look at the health of the cells inside and decide whether the media needs to be changed . As one uses the word ‘ smart ’, we know the cruciality of it in terms of delegation of work . We move on to use our time to the newer heights in a way where running a simple molecular biology effort would actually be converted to a completely smart one and done automatically . Images would be taken automatically and even the first level of analytics would be done automatically .”
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As one uses the word ‘ smart ’, we know the cruciality of it in terms of delegation of work
Dr Taslimarif Sayied , CEO & Director , C-CAMP
Emphasizing on the importance of data and its usefulness , Nicholas Tan , Head-South East Asia , Illumina informed , “ As we see technology develop , the amount of information that has been
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As we see technology develop , the amount of information that has been managed has just increased exponentially
Nicholas Tan , Head-South East Asia , Illumina
managed has just increased exponentially . Genomics in healthcare is driving a lot of demand for sequencing in oncology and that has actually helped a lot of data being generated . But the issue now with data is that it is as good as what it ’ s useful ? For example , how do we get the data out there and really make it useful ? The simple thing is that the data needs to be findable , accessible , and interoperable , meaning that it needs to be able to access from different computer systems and made reusable . Here Ilumina is an authority . We have the LIMS or laboratory information management system that helps you keep track of sample information workflow analysis and some of it may actually be important in different flows . For example , in a clinical setting these things will have to be tracked and there is very little room for human error .”
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BioVoiceNews | October 2022