LabKey News

LabKey Sponsoring the 2012 Skyline User Group Meeting

ren@labkey.com (Ren Lis) — Wed, 16 May 2012 18:12:28 +0000

LabKey is pleased to sponsor the MacCoss Lab and the 2012 Skyline User Group Meeting at ASMS in Vancouver. Investigators involved with creating some of the most exciting Skyline features will talk about the research they are achieving with the Skyline Targeted Proteomics Environment.

When: May 20th, 2012

12:00 - 1:00 pm : Lunch served
1:00 - 3:30 pm : Presentations
3:30 - 4:30 pm : Snacks and break-out discussions

Where: Morris J Wosk Conference Center, 580 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, CA

LabKey is hiring!

adam@labkey.com (Adam Rauch) — Wed, 09 May 2012 18:32:08 +0000

Interested in joining a team that helps develop solutions to problems that impact the world? LabKey currently has two new openings for senior Java developers and a part-time position for an administrative coordinator. See Careers to learn more.

LabKey Server v12.1 now available

ren@labkey.com (Ren Lis) — Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:00 +0000

The LabKey team is pleased to announce the release of LabKey Server v12.1.

Save the date: 2012 LabKey User Conference & Workshop

ren@labkey.com (Ren Lis) — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 +0000

LabKey Software is pleased to announce the 2012 LabKey User Conference and Workshop September 20^th and 21^st in Seattle.

LabKey Server is an open-source platform for managing biomedical research data. The LabKey User Conference will bring together LabKey Server developers, users, and administrators, providing an opportunity for members of the community to share their experiences, learn from each other, and apply new knowledge to their scientific data management challenges.

On Thursday, you'll have the chance to meet others in the LabKey Server Community. Presentations by select LabKey Server users will provide real-world examples of how you can utilize and extend the platform to meet the evolving needs of your network, lab or institution. Speakers will include:

Adam Asare, PhD, Senior Director, Data Center & Data Analysis, The Immune Tolerance Network
Dr. David O'Connor, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Sarah Ramsay, Program Manager, SCHARP: CAVD/VISC, CHAVI, CDS

On Friday, presentations and workshop sessions will help you apply LabKey Server to your unique data challenges. Members of the LabKey team will work closely with attendees throughout the day.

Whether you are a veteran developer of custom LabKey Server applications, or just starting to explore platform capabilities, this is a great opportunity to learn how to make the best use of LabKey Server.

Registration opens in late May. In the meantime, email UserConference2012@labkey.com with any questions.

Dr. Asare is the Senior Director of Data Analysis for the Immune Tolerance Network (ITN), a clinical research consortium sponsored by NIAID/NIH and JDRF. Dr. Asare has a Doctorate in Clinical Pathology, and completed a 4-year National Library of Medicine (NLM) fellowship in Biomedical Informatics focusing on data integration and analyses of specialty testing data. His research interests include standardization and analysis of high dimensional data sets such as gene expression microarray and multicolor flow cytometry data, in a clinical trial setting. He is a strong proponent of reproducible, transparent research where data sets and open-source programmatic code can be disseminated to the research community for validation. Dr. Asare has led the effort to develop ITN TrialShare, a data management system built on LabKey Server that provides a single system for managing ITN clinical trial data. The system combines clinical, assay, and specimen data, providing integrated data analysis, reporting, and visualization for many of ITN’s clinical studies. Committed to transparency and data sharing, ITN is moving toward releasing TrialShare as a public resource, making clinical study data and analysis available to the wider research community. As such, Dr. Asare is particularly interested in enhancing TrialShare’s ability to allow easy data exploration and analysis by researchers who are not involved in the original trials.

LabKey Presentaion at AMIA 2012 Joint Summits on Translational Science 3/22

ren@labkey.com (Ren Lis) — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Mark Igra, one of LabKey's founding partners, will be presenting an overview of our poster "Ancillary Study Management Systems: What do we need?" at AMIA's 2012 Joint Summits on Translational Science.

Presentation Title: AMIA-004-C2012.R1. Ancillary Study Management Systems: What Do We Need?
Session Title: CRI-06: Panel and Four Poster Bullets: Natural Language Processing for Clinical and Translational Research, Poster Session and Reception
Session Date and Time: March 22, 2012 from 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM
The room location for this session will be printed in the on-site program, which you will receive with your registration materials at the registration desk.

Abstract:
Ancillary studies allow researchers to leverage the high-value data collected as part of a primary trial or study, augment it with new measurements, and answer questions that were not part of the primary study design. Management of ancillary studies is complex, so tool support is desirable. We review the core scenarios that an ancillary study management system (ASMS) would need to support. We are currently developing an open-source, general-purpose ASMS based on LabKey Server (http://www.labkey.org).

Elizabeth K. Nelson, PhD¹, Britt Piehler, BA, MBA¹, Adam Rauch, BS¹, Sarah Ramsay, MPH², Drienna Holman, MPH², Smita Asare, BS³ ,⁴, Adam Asare, PhD³,⁴, Mark Igra, BS¹
¹LabKey Software, Seattle, WA; ²Statistical Center for HIV/AIDS Research & Prevention (SCHARP), Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA; ³University of California, San Francisco, CA; ⁴Immune Tolerance Network, Bethesda, MD

Ancillary Studies Poster at AMIA 2012 Joint Summits on Translational Science

ren@labkey.com (Ren Lis) — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000

LabKey is pleased to announce that we've been selected to present our most recent poster "Ancillary Study Management Systems: What do we need?" at AMIA's 2012 Joint Summits on Translational Science March 21-22.

Update: Click here to view the poster.

LabKey Talk at Caisis Face to Face Meeting 3/7

ren@labkey.com (Ren Lis) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Peter Hussey, one of LabKey's Founding Partners, has been invited to present a lecture "Enhancing the Value of Existing Research Data Through the Integration of Caisis with LabKey Server" at the Caisis Face to Face Meeting.

Location: New York, NY
Time: Wednesday March 7, 2012, from 11:15am - Noon (Eastern Time)

Abstract:
LabKey Server's Client API makes it possible for remote clients to retrieve and edit LabKey data using libraries for a range of languages running outside of the browser. This presentation will describe a few examples of potential applications, including: scripted launch of pipeline jobs; interactive exploration of data from the R console; using an R transformation script to find lookup key values on data import. Peter will discuss his successes integrating existing research data in Caisis with LabKey Server.

LabKey Server profiled in Nature Methods

ren@labkey.com (Ren Lis) — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000

The “Technology Feature” in the January 2012 issue of Nature Methods covers how “…adaptive technologies are helping researchers combine and organize experimental results.” Monya Baker’s article, "Quantitative data: learning to share," profiles a wide range of researchers and technologies, including LabKey Server.

LabKey Server v11.3 now available

ren@labkey.com (Ren Lis) — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000

The LabKey team is proud to announce the release of LabKey Server 11.3. This release includes new features for ancillary studies, visualization and user management.

Current Protocols in Bioinformatics publishes paper on LabKey Server for Proteomics

ren@labkey.com (Ren Lis) — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000

LabKey is pleased to announce that Current Protocols in Bioinformatics has published our most recent paper, Installation and Use of LabKey Server for Proteomics.