lab2lab: Effective lab management for medicinal chemists
It is essential for medicinal chemists to have rapid and easy access to analytical equipment at all stages during chemical compound synthesis. Analytical equipment such as HPLC, LCMS, GC/MS and UPLC are regularly used to characterise and ensure the integrity of chemical intermediates during a series of reaction steps and to analyse chemical composition after final purification.
lab2lab provides the means by which medicinal chemists can obtain information rapidly, minimising the time and effort required for manual transport as well as eliminating the frustration felt when they arrive to find that the instrument may be off-line or have a backlog of samples that need to be run. lab2lab can effectively manage sample flow, placing samples that need rapid analysis as a priority in front of any queue. Less important samples may be programmed to be analysed during instrument quiet times such as late evenings or overnight. The ability to link lab2lab to multiple analytical instruments reduces the analysis time significantly, minimising any potential backlog if one instrument is taken off-line. These features significantly enhance the lab management process as shown in the case study.
Compound QC
As compound libraries grow, the need to be confident about the quality of the stored samples becomes ever more important. With increasing screening systems and laboratory automation the scientist often has no opportunity to check the compounds before they are used for the creation of assay plates. The first they know about a problem is an unexpected screening result.
Using lab2lab, your compound collection can be sent automatically to the chosen analytical equipment for overnight analysis without delaying the compound screening process, thereby enhancing the lab management process. Problematic compounds can then be discovered and withdrawn from the screening programme. Increased levels of confidence can be gained from returned analytical data and estimated lifetimes could be assigned to compounds.
The lab2lab system will integrate seamlessly with the TTPLabtech's comPOUND storage system and it can also be integrated with other compound storage systems for efficient lab management.
lab2lab: across the drug discovery disciplines
Drug discovery is a multi-disciplinary process and the ability to enhance interactions between biologists and chemists is important for the success of drug development. lab2lab has the potential to enhance the lab management process between labs, linking scientists across these different disciplines, connecting synthesis to purification, then to compound management and biological assay.
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