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Automating data delivery and databasing – Case Study

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Case

Institution: A top Pharma Company
Market: Chemistry & Pharma
Number of Employes: 200 discovery and development chemists
Uses for tool: Circa 100,000 sample per annum
Market: Third party ELNs (Biovia, IDBS)
Type of installation: In-house developed, long standing tool for data delivery to chemists (upkeep – maintenance/bug fixing a challenge)

Objectives

Short term: To greatly simplify access of all chemists to their analytical data, review of the data and re-storage.

Mid term: To enhance the use of analytical data and avoid work repetition through lack of awareness or visibility of previous work.

Solution

The solution implemented has several elements:

  • MnovaMnova Database
  • Databasing automation
  • Workflow driven data access and review

The workflow

The workflow is very simple and unified / standardised. It is therefore easy to teach new chemists and has little room for error / problems.

Improvements on previous system:

  • Data are databased in real time, automatically (no errors, nothing is missed)
  • Data are available to chemists as soon as acquired
  • Data are processed and templates applied in Real Time
  • Sample Number, Experiment ID, User ID, date and all other relevant metadata are harvested in Real Time and made available for searching
  • PDFs are generated and archived in Real Time
  • Search the system from a greatly simplified interface, within Mnova
  • Data are retrieved by Sample Number, Experiment ID and other clear identifiers
  • Data can be searched by date, user, project, etc., if ‘lost’
  • Structure, peak and multiplet search are also available
  • Chemist can reprocess and, after reprocessing, the following happens with one single click:
    • Resetting of reports – Apply templates
    • Resave to DB with new version number, tagged as human reviewed
    • PDF generated on the fly and archived

Improvements on previous system:

  • Time saved
  • No browsing around file systems to find data, just enter identifier
  • Easily find ‘lost’ data (if you don’t know where it is, the DB will find it)
  • Retrieve already analysed data with one click
  • Reprocess, reanalyse and reset layout of data with one click
  • Resave to DB, version and archive PDF with one click
  • No need to specify save locations, the system knows
  • Better information
  • All data for a given identifier (e.g., Sample Number) are presented to chemist, so he can see analytical data or structure, other chemists analysis, etc., which he may not have been aware of
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