Very delighted to share the newest WhitePaper: SiLA for Instrument Vendors with you!
Click here to download the article.

We hope you enjoy the information it contains and do welcome feedback.

Achema PULSE is only a week away. Get your ticket now and visit our online booth. Listen to the SiLA live talk by SiLA CTO, Daniel Juchli and hear what SiLA Director, Patrick Courtney has to say at the Panel Discussion “Standards and Initiatives for the World of Lab” .

Register here. (SiLA exhibitor voucher: ZSSdx)

Live talk: June 15th, 12-12.30pm CET @ Exhibitor Channel 2
The talk will be an intro into “How a digitalized lab should look and feel, enabled by connectivity standards like SiLA (and data standards like AnIML).”

The “Digital Lab in a Nutshell” is an inspiration to make these abstract standards tangible and visible showcasing a concrete use case how a modern, digital lab could look and feel like.

Panel discussion: June 15th, 16:00-16:40pm CET @ Live Stage 1
Standards and Initiatives for the World of Lab

Dear SiLA friends and members

We are delighted about the final agenda of our upcoming event on June 8th. Register now and hear what SiLA Users have to say about the standard and how it impacts their lab-life.

Register today via google form or by e-mail.

We look foward to connecting with you online!

Your SiLA-Team

Dear SiLA friends and members

Registration is now open for the free online SiLA User Conference on 8th June, 15:00-17:30 CET / (9:00 – 11.30 am EST). Learn how how leading lab users and vendors are benefiting from SiLA and get an update on SiLA 2 and user experiences. Already confirmed are presentations from Roche, Idorsia, Unilever, Takeda, Tecan, LabForward and BioSero.

Click here to register. Should you not have a google account, please register by email.

You want to share your own experience of using SiLA with the community? We still have space for a few further presentations, so if you are interested in presenting your experiences please get in touch by mailing us at info@sila-standard.org no later than May25th, 2021.

Come and hear talks by SiLA Directors Daniel Juchli (SiLA), Tom Kissling (Roche/SiLA), Robert Soeldner (Sartorius/SiLA) and Burkhard Schaefer (BSSN/AnIML-SiLA) as well as Jason Meredith (Tecan) and Rob Harkness (Biosero).

Register now for the free event here.

Dear SiLA friends in members

In the April issue of the SiLA Connection-Newsletter we are sharing
the following exciting news and information with you:

• Universal SiLA Client – Request for proposal
• Edge SiLA Gateway – project awarded
• BioLAGO and SiLA together on Hackathon series, with robots!
• Kevin: the mobile laboratory robot from Fraunhofer (with SiLA)!
• SiLA users collaborate with KNIME for seamless data transfer and analysis
• Call for presentation for the SiLA User Conference – June 8th
• Review of first ditigal SLAS2021
• Labforward – congratulations!
• Closed-Loop Experimental Systems
• Where to meet us next

To download the newsletter click here.

We hope you enjoy the news!

Dear SiLA friends and members

The SiLA Consortium is looking for a proposal to specify and implement an open source universal SiLA Client.

In the SiLA ecosystem, it is essential to interact with equipment and service components in a manual and interactive fashion. Based on the diversity of operating systems and device types (e.g. smartphones, tablets or ordinary personal computers), a platform-independent architecture is desired. Further detailed information can be found here.

 High level expectations:

• Create an open source and publicly available universal interactive SiLA Client. The universal SiLA Client must fully support the SiLA 2 Release 1.0 standard and as well the upcoming SiLA 2 Release 1.1.
• The application must be able to run by people with low IT affinity.

Have we raised your interest? Further detailed information can be found here.

Please submit your proposal by mail to the SiLA office no later than April 16th, 2021, according to the requirements as indicated in the online document.

We look forward to hearing from you!

SiLA’s part of the upcoming Lab of the Future event on April 13th and 14th!

Lab of the Future LIVE brings together leading life science companies and solution providers addressing the cutting-edge research and technology driving the advances in laboratory research impacting us now and in the future.

Don’t miss out and sign up for the free event today:
https://bit.ly/3elgAsa

We are delighted that our SiLA Directors, Daniel Juchli and Dr. Patrick Courtney and  have been invited to participate at the “Organ-on-chip” event on April 28-29.

As part of the roundtable on April 29^th, you can hear what they have to say on “Interoperability and control systems” and “Data acquisition and management”.

Save your seat today for the FREE online event – registration required before April 20^th.

For more information and detailed program visit: http://www.cvent.com/events/putting-science-into-standards-organ-on-chip-towards-standardization/event-summary-563d95d3e09e42c98657c95a95d6c6c7.aspx

Hear Burkhard Schaefer presenting about SiLA & AnIML: Non-proprietary cloud connectivity and data management enabling digital transformation recorded at SmartLab exchange on January 27th, 2021.

Standard protocols and data formats can serve as infrastructure enablers for integration of instruments, systems, and seamless data flow. Several initiatives are gaining in this area. We review the progress of the AnIML and SiLA 2 standardization initiatives, which can provide key building blocks to establish interoperability.

SiLA 2 has added a vendor-neutral cloud-native connectivity protocol to its family of standards. This allows secure connection of an on-premise instrument to a cloud-hosted software environment. By offering an open, cloud-native approach, vendors no longer need to establish proprietary alternatives. This initiative is enabling a major push to leveraging the cloud in the lab.

While SiLA provides webservice-based communication standards for interfacing with instruments, AnIML specifies an XML-based standard data format for analytical data. This format is fully cloud-ready. It allows end-to-end documentation of laboratory experiments, and facilitates exchange of such data across the cloud.

This presentation explores the cloud connectivity capability of SiLA 2, and showcases the combination with AnIML for a global enterprise deployment for integration of chromatography data systems.

Thanks to Burkhard Schaefer and the SmartLab exchange-Team!