Short Course Description

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Applied Information Technology for the Laboratory

Course Description

This course provides decision makers and practitioners from bio-pharma, healthcare, and academia with a comprehensive overview of IT topics and trends in laboratory automation, data management, and systems integration.

Who Should Attend

Individuals looking for a overview of information technology topics relevant to a laboratory environment. The target audience for this class is laboratory IT decision makers and professionals from pharmaceutical, biotech, clinical companies, and research institutions. There are no prerequisites for this class.

How You'll Benefit From This Course

  • Learn about current and upcoming information technology and how to leverage them in a laboratory
  • Improve your IT fundamentals so you can discern hype and reality
  • Become aware of applicable standards and component software architectures
  • Understand how to store, manage, and analyze your data

Course Topics Applied IT Logo

  • Data Representation and Transformation
  • XML and Related Technologies
  • Distributed Computing Strategies
  • Scientific Data Management
  • Data Mining/Knowledge Discovery
  • Laboratory Data Standards
  • Data Storage and Retrieval
  • Long-term Archival
  • Communication Technologies
  • Current Trends in Information Technology

Course Fee:
US $500/$600*		 Course Format:
Lecture		 Class Limit:
40

Instructors:

Burkhard Schaefer Burkhard Schaefer

Burkhard Schaefer Software & Networks
Mainz, Germany

Burkhard Schaefer is an independent consultant specializing in large scale distributed IT systems and e-commerce applications. He is a regular contributor to the LabAutomation short course program and has been involved with the LECIS standardization effort at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and the AnIML project with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM).

He is currently working on standardized data formats for the documentation of laboratory workflows. Clients include various commercial entities and government institutions. He holds a Diploma of Computer Science from the Technical University of Kaiserslautern and has been teaching short courses for the ALA since 1999.

* higher fee applies to those who are not ALA members