Clarity: An open-source manager for laboratory automation

Journal of Laboratory Automation

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 171-177

  Delaney, Nigel F ^a   Echenique, José I Rojas ^a   Marx, Christopher J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated biology; HTS high throughput screening; Informatics and software; Laboratory information managements systems (LIMS); Robotics and instrumentation engineering

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; LABORATORIES; MANAGERS; OPEN SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATED ANALYSIS; COMMON LANGUAGE INFRASTRUCTURE; CRITICAL FEATURES; DIFFERENT PROTOCOLS; EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOLS; FREE AND OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARES; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; LABORATORY AUTOMATION;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYSIS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; COMMUNICATION PROTOCOL; COMPUTER; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; E-MAIL; INFORMATION SCIENCE; LABORATORY AUTOMATION; MOBILE PHONE; NONHUMAN; ONLINE MONITORING; PRODUCT RECOVERY; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 84878305954     PISSN: 22110682     EISSN: 22110690     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2211068212460237     Document Type: Article

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