<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><apologies for cross posting></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hello all,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">On 20 October I attended an event at the Royal Society of Chemistry. One of the other presenters was Gerhard Noelken who talked about a project that Pfizer and other big pharmaceuticals are developing through something called the Allotrope Foundation which is ‘building an open framework for laboratory data’.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The Allotrope Data Format (ADF) is an attempt to provide a standardised format for data. It sounded when he presented like this will be quite a big thing for data sharing - at least in chemistry. And seriously these guys have the cash to build something that works. From memory the companies involved will be implementing it in 2016 and it will be publicly released in November 2016.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">His abstract for the talk:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Allotrope Foundation, how a data standard and taxonomy for analytical data will support
data integration and knowledge generation. </div><div class="">Dr Gerhard Noelken, Technology and Innovation
Group, Pfizer Pharmaceutical Sciences. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This presentation will provide an update on the progress of the Allotrope Foundation towards delivering
a Framework solution for managing analytical chemistry data throughout its lifecycle. It will include
details on the deliverables, timelines, and results not only on the Allotrope Framework delivery but also
on the Integration projects happening across many of the Allotrope member companies.
The intelligent analytical laboratory is moving closer to reality; an automated laboratory where data,
methods and processes are seamlessly shared between software applications and analytical
instruments.
The Framework leverages emerging standards including: the Allotrope Data Format to store the
analytical chemistry results, a set of taxonomies to provide accurate metadata for laboratory systems;
and class libraries to provide access to data, metadata, and business objects. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The reason for my delay in letting people know about this is the slides have only just been released - they are available here <a href="http://www.rsc.org/events/detail/18885/measurement-information-and-innovation-digital-disruption-in-the-chemical-sciences" class="">http://www.rsc.org/events/detail/18885/measurement-information-and-innovation-digital-disruption-in-the-chemical-sciences</a> Gerhard’s slides can be downloaded from that page.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Danny</div><div class=""><br class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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