Thermo Fisher integrates Labguru ELN for streamlined lab management
This integration aims to create a unified lab management experience, offering scientists enhanced data traceability, security, and streamlined workflows across a wide range of laboratory settings—from research and development to GXP-compliant environments. We spoke with Dino Kazanis, product manager, and James Swartz, commercial lead for the Labguru integration at Thermo Fisher Scientific, to learn more about how this partnership will drive lab productivity and efficiency.
What were the primary motivations behind integrating Labguru’s Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN) with Thermo Fisher’s Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) and lab operations software?
Our team determined that there was a need for an ELN that integrates with existing Thermo Fisher software and equipment, and that collaborating with a solution like Labguru’s will provide our customers with a cutting edge ELN that helps accelerate their scientific discovery. We’ve had requests indicating the need for true ELN integration with our LIMS and other lab operations systems that can support everything from R&D to clinical to GXP compliant labs and beyond. Labguru’s ELN matches our needs for security, flexibility, current features, and their willingness and infrastructure to expand our offerings.
Can you explain how the integration of Labguru’s ELN with Thermo Fisher’s software suite enhances data exchange and traceability in the laboratory setting?
With this integration, we are now better able to trace where data sets come from, where they’re going, who has viewed them, and more, effectively removing the possibility for error before it happens and making it easier to identify the source of errors when they do happen. This collaboration hopes to help laboratory teams across industries eliminate data silos and minimize risk of data manipulation. Having data flow smoothly between teams will ensure that duplicate data entries are forgone, sample integrity is maintained, and that the data will automatically populate in the systems, making it faster and easier to reach scientific discoveries.
What specific features of Labguru’s ELN do you believe will have the most significant impact on laboratory productivity and efficiency?
Now, customers can have their notebook and the other solutions that they use in the lab provided by one vendor where all the solutions can connect to one another. We like to call it the “one-LIMS concept.” Its feature sets complement what Thermo Fisher already offers and leverages the application programming interface (API) and integration capabilities to streamline data flow to and from our entire suite of digital solutions. Labguru's flexibility and customizability allows us to provide customers with a full suite of products throughout the scientific process, from discovery to manufacturing.
