Happy to share another testimonial from SiLA Core Member Roche with you: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6582897402808676353/

This Autonomous Laboratory Robot was developed by Roche in cooperation with SiLA Members UniteLabs and Astech Projects using SiLA 2 – the power for standards in action! You can also find the robot on the SiLA Product Store: https://sila-standard.com/dipitems/robotic-lab-assistant/

Dear SiLA friends and member

After three years of hard work and bounteous contributions of a great community we are finally there! SiLA 2 Release 1.0 is available together with many reference implementations and tools!

Check out https://sila-standard.com/, find reference implementations and wiki on: https://gitlab.com/SiLA2.

The work on SiLA 2 will continue! We are planning to provide more reference implementations (C++ for instance) and new additions to the core and of course new SiLA 2 Features. For the latest developments and future considerations, please check out the latest draft of the SiLA 2 specification.

Best regards,

Your SiLA-Team

Dear SiLA friends and members

The October’s issue of the “The SiLA Connection” newsletter is now available for download.
This time we have lots of great news to share with you. Feature articles include:

• SiLA 2 officially released!
• Ready for a SiLA 2 training?
• Review of SiLA Hackathon #17 in Wiesbaden, September 20th
• SiLA Conference – “closed loop” workshop at Idorsia, September 24th
• Simplify the Lab : How the next generation of robotics will help you in the lab
• Register now for Hackathon #18 in Liverpool, UK – November 7th
• BSSN Software joins Merck/MilliporeSigma
• SiLA present at SLAS 2020 in San Diego
• Follow us on youtube!

We hope you enjoy the news and information it contains.

Best regards,

Your SiLA Management Team

This hackathon is going to be all about SiLA 2. We especially invite interested parties with no
previous knowledge of SiLA to join this event. Come and hear about what the standard is, and how
important SiLA and AnIML are for the digitalized lab of the future.

We welcome both technical and non-technical staff to
join us.

Date:   Thursday, November 7th, 2019
Time:   9am – 5pm
Place: Materials Innovation Factory, University of Liverpool
            51 Oxford Street, Liverpool, L7 3NY, UK

Do not miss out and register your seat today. For detailed information and agenda, click here.

Simplification in the laboratory: How the next generation of robotics will help you in the lab

Workshop:
While the mainstay of laboratory has been the liquid handler, recent developments in robotics are emerging from other industries. These have led to off-loading of complex and demanding tasks onto the robot promoting operators to supervisory roles. This workshop will showcase some of the recent progress and thinking in robotics for the lab, to improve productivity, quality and innovation.

Date:          Nov 6, 2019
Time:          9am – 12:30pm
Location:   ACC Liverpool, UK
Room:        11C

For more information and FREE registration visit ELRIG-Drug Discovery 2019. If you are interested in presenting a poster please email us at info@sila-standard.org.

We look forward to welcoming you there!

Dear SiLA friends and members

We are looking forward to releasing SiLA 2 version 1.0 in September 2019. Since 2016, the SiLA working group and a community of great people have been continuously developing the standard towards the SiLA 2 Release 1.0.

We are now asking you to submit final comments using the online form no later than September 6th, 2019.

Thank you in advance for your support!

Your SiLA-Team

Dear SiLA friends and members

Register now for the next SiLA Hackathon #17 on September 20^th in Wiesbaden, Germany.

This hackathon is going to be all about SiLA 2. We especially invite interested parties with no previous knowledge of SiLA to join this event. Come and hear about what the standard is, and how important SiLA and AnIML are for the digitalized lab of the future.

We welcome both technical and non-technical staff to join us.

For non-technical staff, this will be an ideal opportunity to learn about how the standard can help you in the lab and make your daily work easier.

For technical staff, you have the chance to actively help to develop the standard, to hack, try out SiLA and AnIML enhanced equipment, to talk to our technical experts, and much more.

Don’t miss out and reserve your seat for this free event today!

Date: Friday, September 20th, 2019, 09:00 – 17:00

Location: Tecan Software Competence Center GmbH, Peter-Sander-Straße 43a, 55252 Mainz-Kastel (Wiesbaden), Germany

Agenda: available here

We look forward to welcoming you!

Your SiLA team

Dear SiLA friends and members

We are delighted to share the press release of the very successful joint workshop/hackathon with BioLago on July 4th with you.

BioLAGO-Konferenz setzt Impulse für digitales Labor der Zukunft

“Driving the Lab of the Future through precompetitive collaboration”

Come and hear our SiLA Board of Directors, Daniel Juchli and Burkhard Schaefer, speak about “Driving the Lab of the Future through precompetitive collaboration” at the Lab of the Future Congress in Cambridge, UK.

Date: November 14th, 2019
Time: 12 pm

We look forward to being part of this great event!

For detailed information visit: www.lab-of-the-future.com
Seize the chance and register at the early bird rate of £899 (insted of £999) until September 30th, 2019

Date: September 24th, 09:30-13:00
Location: Idorsia, Basel Switzerland

Closed-loop make-test-design platforms: What is happening in Europe?

Developing products of any kind often happens in iterative cycles. For example, small molecule drugs emerge after numerous cycles of “Lead Optimization”: Medicinal chemists synthesize variants of an active molecule, their activities are then measured in bioassays, based on which a new round of syntheses is planned.

The idea to fully automate, and thereby enormously accelerate, such development cycles has been around for many years. However until recently, the technical challenges were simply too high.
With recent advances in the automation of chemistry, biology, and machine learning approaches, this is about to change. An increasing number of companies and institutions are taking on the challenge.

In this interactive meeting, we want to engage in a dialog to address questions such as these:

• Where are closed-loop make-test-design platforms emerging in Europe and beyond?
• What is the status on integral automation of chemistry and bioassays?
• How will such systems be controlled, what is the role of AI/machine learning?
• What is the role of standards such as SiLA to enable such platforms?

The discussion will be launched and guided by experts in chemistry and biology lab automation from Roche, Novartis, Idorsia, and other companies. Seats are limited, we therefore ask for registration by e-mail.

If you are interested to actively contributeto the event, please get in contact with the Organizing Committee directly by e-mail. We look forward to hearing from you.