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The world of scientific research is always changing, which means that the need for precision is key in all laboratory settings. To ensure reliable results are achieved, new and innovative methods of conducting research need to be implemented. Dynamic protocols represent a transformative shift, bridging the gap between traditional methods and the future of automated, intelligent research workflows.
What Are Dynamic Protocols?
Dynamic Protocols have become integral to scientific work, they are workflows that guide scientific protocols within your laboratory environment. Providing an adaptable workflow environment helps to ensure that researchers have the time and flexibility needed to ensure accurate testing in experimental laboratory work. This in turn, provides less errors and improved laboratory research.
Perform complex actions easily
The more complex your workflow, the higher the risk of an error occurring and the experiment needing to be repeated. Serial dilution, concentration normalization, heating, shaking, centrifugation, temperature control any of these operations can be defined in OneLab, eliminating the risk of error-prone calculations and inaccurate recipe description.
What are the benefits of implementing Dynamic Protocols in your research?
- Reproducibility
Laboratory automation eliminates most human errors resulting in more reliable data and improved productivity. Together with complete integration inside OneLab, all experimental data from Andrew+ will be recorded and stored, improving the traceability of experiments and the data analysis.
- Ensuring Repeatability
Ensuring repeatability of your experiment in a collaborator’s lab or in a ring trial, or across a network of regulated laboratories can be very challenging. The OneLab protocols, however, can be securely shared with fellow lab members or even collaborators in other labs, anywhere in the world.
Protocols designed in OneLab ensure that each step of your experiment can be correctly executed, reducing the likelihood of error or different interpretations, and avoiding the waste of valuable research time and funding.
- Reduced Errors
Automated tools and dynamic protocols both work together to ensure error free research data. Researchers who make the transition from manual to automated pipetting will be able to achieve precise measurements in their laboratory research, minimizing human error.
Real-Time Monitoring and Feedback
Researchers can track their experiments as they progress, identifying deviations from the expected workflow and making immediate adjustments.
The OneLab software environment allows you to design and execute your laboratory experiment on your own PC or tablet. For example, it enables you to calculate a dilution factor or design a serial dilution without error. Each step of your laboratory experiment can be executed manually, semi- or fully automatically, depending on whether you have a OneLab compatible connected device or not.
Using Water’s tools, researchers can perform complex experiments with consistent accuracy, whether they’re working with a handful of samples or hundreds.
OneLab easily integrates into your lab workflow, increasing productivity, and ensuring traceability, data security and privacy.
Experiment traceability
OneLab traces all steps from protocol design to experiment execution and report generation. It performs the function of an electronic laboratory notebook (ELN), that is searchable, as well as enabling communication between multiple users and databases (like LIMS).
Laboratory management
After a protocol is created by a lab member, it is automatically synchronized for use by other members, removing the need for additional version control and documentation. OneLab improves reproducibility by enabling multiple members to seamlessly collaborate, eliminating tedious manual procedures, and overcoming hurdles in communication and training.
Security and data Privacy
OneLab is a connected software environment ensuring security of your lab protocols through secure user identification and access control. For example, lab sample prep activity can be stored in a consistent way, for future analysis and data validation.
Key Features of Water’s Solutions
OneLab Cloud Platform: A user-friendly, cloud-based platform that easily integrates into your lab workflow, increasing productivity, and ensuring traceability, data security and privacy.
Andrew+ Pipetting Robot: Andrew+ pipetting robot offers fully automated liquid handling using electronic pipettes and labware holders called Dominos.
By integrating these features into their workflows, researchers can achieve unparalleled efficiency and accuracy.
The field of research continues to grow more complex as time goes on. Dynamic protocols are transforming the research landscape, offering a solution to the challenges of reproducibility, accuracy, and efficiency. By implementing a robust automated system that uses dynamic protocols, research projects will produce efficiency results that are error free.
By adopting innovations like the Andrew Alliance Pipetting Robot and OneLab platform, researchers can unlock the full potential of their experiments.
Explore how Andrew Alliance is revolutionizing laboratory workflows with dynamic protocols by visiting their website. Whether you’re tackling high-throughput projects or aiming to eliminate errors in everyday tasks, their solutions are designed to elevate your research to the next level.
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