The direct and indirect impact of sourcing human biological samples present serious risks for the scientific research community. Through Compli™ -a governance process that provides standardization, transparency and ensures ethical sourcing through one single service- researchers can now mitigate risk and reduce overhead while implementing a formal compliance process.

A few readers of this blog series might recall the thrill of operating the so-called Genetics Computing Group “Wisconsin Package” running on the OpenVMS operating system. Subsequently, its GUI SeqWeb became a precursor to today’s cloud computing concept.

In the first of a series of posts, Tech Snapshot will explore subsets of Data Sciences—life sciences data services, omics analytics and health IT—followed by an overview of three different organizations to assist scientists in furthering their research in this burgeoning area.

As 2017 comes to a close, it’s time to pause and reflect on where Scientist.com has been, where it’s headed and how the drug discovery landscape has evolved.

The management of the logistics and infrastructure required to extract relevant biological information from large sets of various sources is far from trivial.