Accelerating Discovery at the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis Program

PHILADELPHIA, Penn. (April 15, 2009) Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., the

world leader in serving science, has published a new technical poster

demonstrating how Thermo Scientific Nautilus LIMS has helped accelerate

discovery for the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis in their high content

screening laboratories. The new technical poster is available

free-of-charge via

https://www.thermo.com/eThermo/CMA/PDFs/Product/productPDF_50097.pdf

The poster was presented at the Lab Automation 2009 conference in Palm

Springs, CA and is entitled Integrating Informatics and High Content

Screening to Find a Cure for Spinal Cord Injury. Co-authored by research

scientists from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and senior

technical managers from Thermo Fisher Scientific, the poster highlights the

growing need to manage the large amounts of data generated in the screening

of neurons undertaken during the Project’s quest to promote nerve growth.

The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis sought a Laboratory Information

Management System (LIMS) for its LemBix laboratory that would facilitate

their laboratory workflows and automate their previously manual data

management processes. With the increasing workload in their high-throughput

laboratories, a single experiment can generate data from 300,000 neurons

with 140 parameters per cell, and managers required an informatics solution

that could manage the flow of data and enhance productivity. Furthermore,

lab managers needed to be able to readily access and analyze the data to

provide them with knowledge that was previously difficult to acquire. The

new poster demonstrates how the lab implemented an informatics solution to

manage the enormous volumes of data generated by The Miami Project to Cure

Paralysis in order to ease the administrative tasks of the scientist so they

could focus on the laboratory’s goal of finding a cure.

Thermo Fisher introduced a workshop approach with the LemBix Laboratory to

minimize costs and engage staff while developing the best solution to

integrate informatics in their high content screening environment. The

LemBix laboratory implemented Thermo Scientific Nautilus LIMS to improve

productivity, organize and improve the accuracy of their collected data. The

poster is ideal reading for scientists undertaking high volumes of screening

and for academics in the translational science community confronted with the

generation of large quantities of data.

For more information about Thermo Scientific informatics solutions or to

obtain a free-of-charge copy of the technical poster, please call +1

866-463-6522, e-mail marketing.informatics@thermofisher.com or visit

www.thermo.com/informatics.

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