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.

This time we have lots of great reviews to share with you. Feature articles include:

• SiLA at LabVolution in Hannover, May 21-23
• 1stPoster prize for SiLA! – Symposium on Digitalization and Big Data in Biotech & Pharma, June 6th  
• SiLA Hackathon #14 in Berlin, June 14th
• Review of first SiLA hackathon in the US, Santa Clara, June 28th
• Review of BioLAGO joint hackathon workshop with SiLA and AnIML on “Data and Interfaces in the Laboratory”, July 4th
• SiLA was a topic at the “Machine Learning and AI in (Bio)chemical engineering”- Workshop on July 8th
• SiLA Conference 2019

Newsletter available for download here.
We hope you enjoy the news and information it contains.

Your SiLA Management Team

Location:
Promega Corp., 3945 Freedom Circle, Ste 200. Santa Clara, CA 95054

Agenda:
9:00 –  9:30      Registration / Welcome / Networking
9:30 – 10:15      SiLA2 introduction (background, history, goals)
10:15 – 10:30    Coffee break
10:30 – 12:00    SiLA essential concepts and features

12:00 – 13:00    Lunch break

13:00 – 16:30     Coding a simple device / client

We are very excited about the SiLA Hackathon taking place in Santa Clara, USA on June 28th, 2019. At this first SiLA Hackathon in the US, we welcome both, technical as well as non-technical staff.
To get you running, we want to introduce a set of Quick Start guides and README’s to you:

• SiLA C#/.NET Quick Start Guide
• SiLA Java Quick Start Guide
• SiLA Python README

Please select a relevant guide based on the language you plan to work with. In the C# and Java guides, you will get a full walkthrough on how to install, setup and run a SiLA server and interact with it via the SiLA browser – a free client software provided by UniteLabs.

If you plan to get hands-on with the reference implementations, please try the guide of the language of choice before the Hackathon to make sure your system is ready for SiLA development – let us know if there are any issues. To aid with communication please join our Slack Community. Where you can ask any questions and collaborate with the rest of the participants.

Register for FREE

For further information or questions, please contact us by mail.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Dear SiLA friends and members

We are happy to announce that SiLA is going be a topic at the “Machine Learning and AI in (Bio)chemical engineering”-Workshop on July 8^th, 2019 in Cambridge, UK.

• LARA with SiLA2 – an integrated open source platform providing experimental data for Machine Learning / AI and cheminformatics, workshop on Machine Learning and AI in (Bio)chemical engineering – M. Dörr, P. Courtney, U. Bornscheuer and S. Born
• AI enabled by interoperability standards in the bioprocessing laboratory, workshop on Machine Learning and AI in (Bio)chemical engineering – P.Courtney (SiLA), B.Schaefer (BSSN/SiLA), M.Doerr (U Greifswald), Uwe Bornscheuer (U Greifswald), Stefan Born (U Greifswald), N.Cruz (DataHow) S.Hans (TUBerlin), Christian Ulmer (TUBerlin),

The two days event is free of charge and going to take place at:

Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
Philippa Fawcett Drive
Cambridge CB3 0AS

For further information visit:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/machine-learning-and-ai-in-biochemical-engineering-tickets-58441588364

We look forward to seeing you there!

Kind regards,

Your SiLA-Team

Automation, digitization and device networking are trends that cover all industries and have become indispensable in our everyday lives. The Laboratory of the Future is also shaped by these trends and holds major challenges for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

When talking about The Laboratory of the Future, one often thinks of data. Easier generation, better use, and more efficient data management play a significant role. Without an easily accessible database and an optimal data flow between systems, modern data analysis, machine learning and methods of artificial intelligence cannot be realized.

You would like to know how data exchange in The Laboratory of the Future might look like? Or are you interested in designing more efficient data management?

Then join the workshop with integrated hackathon on 04. July 2019 in Konstanz.

Time: 09:30 – 16:30 /  Costs: free entry

Place: The Plant Konstanz, Gebäude „12 in The Plant“, Byk-Gulden-Str. 2, Konstanz, 78467 Deutschland

BioLAGO organizes the event, together with SiLA and AnIML, as part of the “Labor 4.0” project. The aim of the event is to support and facilitate exchanges between users of SME laboratories and IT automation solution providers on data exchange and management, interfaces and multi-vendor device control.

For non-technical laboratory workers: this is an ideal opportunity to learn more about how standards can help you in the lab and make your daily work easier. After the presentations you can deepen the topics in workshops and exchange ideas. The agenda for the workshops can be found here (Vorträge & Workshop).

For technical staff: those interested in engineering can actively participate in the development of the standard hackathon, try out SiLA and AnIML-enhanced devices, talk to our technical experts, and more. More information on the process can be found here (Hackathon).

Do not miss the BioLAGO joint hackathon workshop with SiLA and AnIML. Secure your place today by registering via the online registration form.

The agenda and more information on the hackathon are now available. For detailed information visit: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1u3212_eOaeVJlIIcdBEeDCW9et2C9hKtFyJumUhPKsw/edit#heading=h.848x2iu4qur1

For this hackathon, we especially 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, June 14^th, 09:00 – 17:00

Place: Technische Universität Berlin, FG Bioverfahrenstechnik, Z26, Ackerstraße 76, Berlin 13357

Registration deadline is May 31^st, 2019.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Your SiLA team

Dear SiLA friends and members

Our Director, Dr. Patrick Courtney, was interviewed by Laura Lansdowne from Technology Networks on the topic of Standardizing Robotics & Automation in Lab.

The interview (page 10) is published in the Automation in Science e-book which can be downloaded for free. For download visit: http://go.technologynetworks.com/automation-in-science-ebook

A big thank you to Laura and Patrick!

Dear SiLA friends and members

Have you read the article “SiLABOX give away at SLAS2019 – a great success!” in our April’s newsletter?

We do not want to withhold the gallery of the happy faced recipients of the Box from you.

You are interested in a SiLABox to try out SiLA 2 in your Lab?

Click here for more information and download the documentation, including list of parts to build your own SiLABox or contact us by mail.

The SiLA 2 community and reach of the lab automation standard is growing!

On March 26, a group of experienced as well as new people to the SiLA standard gathered at wega in Basel, Switzerland. Whereas the newcomers got a quick-start introduction and began coding their first SiLA services, the experienced group discussed and coded current hot topics of the SiLA community: Authentication and authorization, encryption and transferring of large data sets. Hackathons are a great opportunity to meet the community. Many details of the SiLA 2 standard were challenged and improved at these.

Are you interested in joining the next hackathon? Contact us for more information.

The April’s issue of the “The SiLA Connection” newsletter is now available for download. Feature articles include:

• SiLA Consortium at SLAS2019 in Washington, D.C.
• SiLA present at SmartLab Exchange in Berlin, Germany
• SiLABOX give away at SLAS2019 – a great success!
• SiLA Hackathon #14 in Berlin, Germany
• Strukturierte Daten im Labor – Article by Burkhard Schäfer – GIT Laboratory Journal

We hope you enjoy the news and information it contains.

Best regards,

Your SiLA Management Team