Celebrate with us - LabAutomation`s Birthday

Unbelievable, for me it feels like we have launched this website just a few weeks ago, but it`s a whole year of uptime already. I think this might be the right moment to share some community stats, along with some plans for next year.

Plans for 2016:

• Implementation of a “Polling System”


• Improving the Email Templates


• More News Streams


• More Directory entries


• Refining onsite usability


• Server upgrade from php5.3 to php5.5


• Serve static files from a subdomain


• Performance tweaks


• Awesome secret things

Statistics:

• Members onsite: 124 people


• Members offsite: 600+ people


• Written posts: 85 posts


• Directory count: 46 companies


• Media partnerships: 4 events


• APIs to other sites: 25 interfaces


• User activity: 825 posts

Feel free to share this post on other social networks and keep telling people about this project. We want to continue this service and make it the best source of content about laboratory automation. Thank YOU!

Celebrate with us - LabAutomation`s Birthday

The new Dried Blood Spot Autosampler

Spark Holland has over 30 years’ experience in HPLC and UHPLC instrument innovation, specializing in the field of autosampling and on-line solid phase extraction and, more recently, on-line dried blood spot (DBS) analysis.  Our innovative products have always led the way in injection technology. sample prep integration and flexibility of operation.

Dried blood spot (DBS)

sampling is an emerging technology for bioanalysis, especially useful in the

clinical and pharmaceutical laboratory, offering easy sample collection,

transport and storage. Spark Hollands revolutionary DBS Autosampler maintains the

integrity of the sample through automation, offering time and cost savings.

Innovative patented Flow-through desorption technology (FTD™)* provides direct

elution of DBS from cards, offering not only consistent quality, while

eliminating the inconsistency of tedious manual disc punching or costly

robotics, but also allowing the option of on-line clean-up and analyte

separation by SPE prior to analysis in an automated workflow. Automation of the

entire workflow for DBS analysis in minutes, providing maximum sensitivity without

any manual intervention. With the potential for many other biological samples,

the DBS Autosampler from Spark sets a new standard for analysis!

See the DBS Autosampler in action or
visit the DBS Autosampler landing site

The new Dried Blood Spot Autosampler

Major Upgrade (LabAutomations 3.0)

It was silent here since we started to develop the recent upgrade of LabAutomations, but I am excited to announce its release!

Now, the site is more powerfull than ever before. We primarily focused on usability and found a few good ways to implement a system which is easy to use but still multifunctional as per our requirements. I hope you like it as we do and enjoy this free community!

At this point, an important note for everyone who has beta tested our "LinkedIn Sign Up System". Unfortunately, we had to discontinue this module and replace it with a better one! The problem was simple, once someone logged in using this API he or she was unable to login normally and had to use the LinkedIn Sign Up System forever.

However, now you get a mail straight to your LinkedIn account, including the credentials to login "normally".

New Beta Testers here: https://goo.gl/IxmG4d

Best regards, Artur

Major Upgrade (LabAutomations 3.0)

LabAutomations 2.0 Beta

I recently migrated the "old" forum software (sponsored by myBB) to our own custom solution and implemented lots of new features. This was a major upgrade to the core system and I kindly apologise for any interruption and the poor availability of labautoamtions.com in the past few days. But it`s done. We can enjoy a free and open community of interest for laboratory automation and robotics. Cheers!  (Big Thank You: Darco, Martin!! )

New functions come with greater responsibilities. A little story:

I had to open the sites firewall temporarily and had a bleeding wound on the site for a couple of hours. I have no idea who could be interested in taking this website down, but I will find you and I will kill you! I lost a minimum of 3h to recover this failed takedown attempt, but I thank you for making this site even more stable. Now, beside from SSL encryption, we support a layered firewall, a hardened software, scheduled scans for malware and lots of settings to cover full integrity. If this fort knox is not a safe place now, I do not know... Happy surfing.

A few new features:

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  Users can create and update profiles, including the use of profile photos. Site administrators can easily set up the parameters of the user profiles.


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  Users can befriend one another. The site owner can decide what special abilities friends have with regard to one another.


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  Users can send private messages. LabAutomations comes with a robust private messaging system, similar to that found on Facebook. Users can choose whether or not to receive an email notification when someone sends them a message.


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  Users can form and join groups. Groups can be used for a wide range of functions within the website. Administrators can choose to let their users create and join groups of common interest.


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  Users can follow activity streams. LabAutomations activity streams provide a quick digest of the recent activity going on within a site or with regard to a particular user.


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  Users can create blogs. LabAutomations gives administrators and users a full-featured online publishing platform.


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  Users can participate in forum discussions. BuddyPress is fully integrated with bbPress, a slick forum system.

 

 

LabAutomations 2.0 Beta