Laboratory informatics

CSEARCH/HaveltAlF NMR, Bio-Rad Laboratories, Informatics/Sadtler Group, 3316 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-2596, USA. 

Data management and interpretation (including laboratory informatics) are key aspects of the laboratory medicine service, as are activities concerned with maintaining quality... 

The boundaries between clinical chemistry and other areas of laboratory medicine are not always distinct. In many institutions, clinical chemists initiate and direct activities, such as laboratory informatics and POCT. In some areas of the world, the term clinical chemistry has long been used to include laboratory areas such as hemostasis, thrombosis testing, immunology testing, and parts of hematology that in the United States are not considered to be part of classical clinical chemistry. 

Professor of Pathology and Medical Informatics Oregon Health and Science University Portland, Oregon Clinical Laboratory Informatics... 

In this paper we describe the basic design of a microarray gene expression database to help microarray users and their informatics teams set up their information services. The first version of the microarray database object model ArrayExpress, which is described here, was developed at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) in collaboration with the German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ) and posted on the Internet in November, 1999 (see (http //www.ebi.ac.uk/arrayexpress)). A relational database implementation maxd based on the ArrayExpress object model was conducted at the University of Manchester (http //bioinf.man.ac.uk/microarray/resources.html) and is widely used for microarray laboratory informatics support. 

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