Sunday 12 August 2018

Unique Content Article on lab information system

The Finer Points Of Lab Information Systems


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.

A LIS is a type of software. It is mostly used in a laboratory, as the name would imply. They are used for a variety of tasks in such a setting.

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.

Money is and always will be a factor. Any product that is put on the market is going to come at a cost. A lab will have a budget, and that budget will only be able to stretch so far. Which means that the price of the LIS is must be considered. Otherwise, a team can blow through their entire budget and having nothing left for their actual task.

Using a pirated LIS is going to be cheap. But it is far less than ideal. Beyond the moral arguments of piracy, a pirated product simply will not have the same quality as the genuine article. That quality is important. It has to be there otherwise, productivity can suffer, and the things that are done in a lab go slowly enough when everything is working properly.

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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