Let the Data Flood Begin: Full Scan PK at MSACL

Development of a Small Volume Sampling Technique and LC-MS Orbitrap Assay for Pediatric Pharmacokinetic Studies of Fentanyl and its Metabolites (Uwe Christians, Clinical Research and Development, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Colorado Denver).  In this talk, Uwe showed the sensitivity and selectivity of using full scan data for PK type data.  Because you don’t have [...]

Leroy Hood at MSACL: Data reduction will be the key to personalized medicine.

Dr Hood suggests that signal-to-noise in biological measurements is so bad that we must use 1) Statisics 2) a deep understanding of the pathways and 3) data integration; to make any progress. All of his data is shown as networks – perfectly aligned with the large-scale linked data approach Indigo uses. Hood said: “Medicine is [...]

Indigo’s Cloud Provider Highlighted as High Quality Security Example

Indigo BioSystems is now using BlueLock LLC to provide hosting/infrastructure for the Indigo Platform and our Software-as-a-Service offerings.  Indigo selected BlueLock for security-intensive applications in the pharmaceutical industry and apparently we are not alone.
From ComputerWorld: “Cloud security: Try these techniques now”
BlueLock’s virtualized environment allowed data and volumes to move between systems in a dynamic, low-cost [...]

Pfizer and Indigo Discuss Shared Services on ALA 2010 Informatics Panel

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I served on a panel in the informatics track at the Lab Automation Conference last week with people from Pfizer.  We were each allowed a couple of slides to do an [...]