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SiLA 2
1. Promotional Material
SiLA 1.x (obsolete*)
2. Promotional Material
- SiLA standard presentation
- SiLA Consortium brochure
- SiLA short description and competences
- White Paper: Serving the needs of the laboratory with SiLA 2
- White Paper: The Importance of Standardization in Laboratory Automation
- White Paper: SiLA for Instrument Vendors
- White Paper: SiLA for Software Vendors
- The Tecan SiLA 2 SDK: framework to develop SiLA2 servers and clients
- SiLA short clip: Do you speak SiLA?
General
3. Promotional Material
- KNIME data talks: How SiLA Supports Open Interoperability in the Laboratory
- SiLA & AnIML: Non-proprietary cloud connectivity and data management enabling digital transformation
- KNIME Ananlytics Platform using SiLA 2
- Video SiLA Hackathon, November 7, 2019
- SiLA Hackathon #19 online Session, March 6, 2020
- European Pharmaceutical Review: New trends in intelligent robotics in the laboratory
- SiLA and AnIML flyer
- SiLA Consortium brochure
- SiLA Membership Benefits flyer
- White Paper on Laboratory Robotics in Europe: Status and Prospects within Horizon2020
- SiLA Hackathon #19 online session, March 6, 2020
4. Promotional Videos (links to SiLA youtube channel)
*SiLA 1.x is obsolete and outdated, use SiLA 2 for new products
SiLA 2
1. General
2. Specification
3. Core Features
4. Code Repositories
SiLA 1.x (obsolete*)
1. General
2. Device Control & Interfaces
- General Interface Specification Appendix V1.1
- SiLA Device Class Interface Design Guidelines V0.3
- SiLA Device Control & Data Interfaces Specifications V1.0
- SiLA Device Control & Data Interfaces Specifications V1.1
- SiLA Device Control & Data Interfaces Specifications V1.2
- SiLA Device Control & Data Interfaces Specifications V1.3
3. Common Dictionary Specification
4. Data Capture Standard (legacy version)
5. Labware Specification
*SiLA 1.x is obsolete and outdated, use SiLA 2 for new products
1. Publications / Posters
- Automating Discovery: Laboratory automation, high throughput experimentation, diagnostics and laboratory robotics/AI
- Digitales lab – viel Luft nach oben
- Scientific Computing World – Supporting standards (Feb/March 2020)
- G.I.T. – SiLA 2 – The emerging Standard for Lab Automation (Sept 2019)
- G.I.T. – Strukturierte Daten im Labor (Feb 2019)
- Recent Developments in the Smart Laboratory Enabled by Standards in Laboratory Automation (poster)
- Cloud based online monitoring of large data sets in dynamical high throughput experiments
- Standardization in System-Level Communication
- Standardized Device Integration
- Standards in Laboratory Automation as an Enabler for the Smart Laboratory
2. Application Notes
- SiLA Cloud implementation PoC
- Cross-Laboratory Data Integrity & Quality Assurance Using SiLA & AnIML
- Flexibility in High-Throughput Screening using Standardized AnIML Data Format & SiLA Communication Interface
- Harmonization of Multi-Layered Laboratory Information Systems Using SiLA & AnIML
- LIMS-Driven System Integration using Standardized SiLA Data Format & Transport Interface
- Rapid Integration of HTS Preparation System
- Robotic Lab Assistant based on SiLA
- Automated LC-MS plate feeder using SiLA
- Flexible compound management system enabled by SiLA
- SiLA-enabled lab refrigerator iGripper
- Formulation Laboratory using SiLA 2
- Colony picking robot enabled by SiLA 2
3. SiLA/ELRIG Workshop Presentations
- Lab of the future Workshop: SiLA/ELRIG Workshop at DD2017
- Lab of the future Workshop – Session 1 – user
- Lab of the future Workshop – Session 2 – supplier
- Lab of the future Workshop – Session 3 – interoperability
- Lab of the future Workshop – Session 4 (1/3) – future visions
- Lab of the future Workshop – Session 4 (2/3) – future visions
- Lab of the future Workshop – Session 4 (3/3) – future visions
- Closing the loop in the Lab using AI: SILA/ELRIG Workshop at DD2018
- Closing the loop in the Lab using AI: SiLA/ELRIG Workshop Plamen Petrov Lundbeck Pharma
- Closing the loop in the Lab using AI: SiLA/ELRIG Workshop Kevin Teburi_Genedata
- Closing the loop in the Lab using AI: SiLA/ELRIG Workshop Larisa Soldatova_Goldsmiths College
- Closing the loop in the Lab using AI: SiLA/ELRIG Workshop Mimi Hii Imperial College ROAR
- Closing the loop in the Lab using AI: SiLA/ELRIG Workshop Adam Nelson Rosalind Franklin Institute Leeds University
- Closing the loop in the Lab using AI: SiLA/ELRIG Workshop Burkhard Schäfer BSSN Software
- Simplify the lab: SiLA/ELRIG Workshop Oskari Vinko UniteLabs
- Simplify the lab: SiLA/ELRIG Workshop Shan Luo University of Liverpool
- Simplify the lab: SiLA/ELRIG Workshop Dr. Radhika Gudipati Shadow
- Simplify the lab: SiLA/ELRIG Workshop Richard Willingham
- Simplify the lab: SiLA/ELRIG Workshop David Swan
4. SiLA on other events
- Future Labs Live 2024 – AC/DC Lab Democratization of Lab Automation
- Future Labs Live 2024 – A smartlab network to foster digitalization and automation through open standards
- Future Labs Live 2024 – Full integration of ML into a ontology guided automated robotic workflow
- Future Labs Live 2024 – Biologics Quality Control Automation Ecosystems
- Future Labs Live 2024 – A bioSASH and SiLA journey; Implementing advanced laboratory automation technologies
- SLAS 2023 – “speak SiLA to me”
- SLAS 2020 – SiLA Tutorial Presentation
- SLAS 2020 – SiLA Tutorial Testimonials
- SLAS 2019 – SiLA & AnIML Poster
- SLAS 2019 – SiLA Tutorial Presentation
- SLAS 2018 – SiLA & AnIML Poster
- SLAS2016 – SiLA Tutorial Presentation
- SLAS2014 – SiLA Booth
- SLAS 2014 – SiLA Update During Standardization SIG using PMS Workgroup as example
- Pittcon 2016 – SiLA Presentation
- Festo Lab Automation Symposium 2016 – Presentation
1. SiLA Connection Newsletter
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2024/4
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2024/3
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2024/2
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2024/1
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2023/3
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2023/2
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2023/1
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2022/4
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2022/3
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2022/2
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2022/1
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2021/3
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2021/2
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2021/1
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2020/4
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2020/3
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2020/2
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2020/1
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2019/5
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2019/4
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2019/3
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2019/2
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2019/1
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2018/4
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2018/3
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2018/2
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2018/1
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2017/4
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2017/3
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2017/2
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2017/1
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2016/4
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2016/3
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2016/2
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2016/1
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2015/4
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2015/3
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2015/2
- The SiLA Connection Newsletter Issue 2015/1
SiLA Academic User Conference #1 (2021)
SiLA Conference #12 (2021)
- 12th SiLA Conference Abstracts
- 01 Update on SiLA 2
- 02 What has standardization ever done for us?
- 03 SiLA Implementation Experience at Unilever
- 04 Update on AnIML
- 05 An autonomous lab robot for cell culture automation in a normal lab environment
- 06 Taking SiLA a step further with Robotic Laboratory Automation Plug & Play: The “LAPP” Framework
- 07 C.WASH: Cell washing and DNA-purification using centrifugal forces
- 08 Tecan embraces SiLA 2
- 09 Labforward and SiLA 2
SiLA Conference #11 (2020)
SiLA Conference #9 (2018)
SiLA Conference #8 (2017)
- 8th SiLA Conference Program
- 01_University Hospital Basel and Institute of Human Genetics, University of Bonn – Challenges of Laboratory Automation in Genetic Analysis
- 02_Brunel University UK – Knowledge Representation & Integration for Automated Drug Discovery
- 03_Fraunhofer IPA – nICLAS Future Lab: A Collaborative Platform for Interactive Development of Lab Solutions for the Future
- 04_Peak Analysis & Automation_S-Lab™ – Empowering a New Product with SiLA
- 05_SiLA Consortium – Making Moves with SiLA 2
- 06_Design Build Test Learn, Repeat – collaborative hardware development for Synthetic Biology
- 07_Andrew Alliance – You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know: Software Development & the Lean Startup Model
- 08_Fraunhofer IPA – Cellshare: Cell-based Assay as an Internet Service
- 09_Eppendorf – VisionNize: The Eppendorf Lab Device Management System
- 10_BSSN Software – Powering the Lab of the Future through System Communication & Data Standards
- 11_UniteLabs – A Vision of Open Collaboration Enabled by Standardization
- 12_TU Dresden – Smart Devices in Stupid Era Labs
SiLA Conference #7 (2016)
- 7th SiLA Conference Program
- 01_BioFlux – Digital Biology in Every Home
- 02_TecConnection – Increasing take up of standards in lab automation
- 03_wegaInformatik – Making SiLA fit for the future
- 04_SiLA – SiLA-Status, Roadmap and Vision
- 05_MESA – Experiences on How to Manage a Not-for-Profit Industry Association
- 06_HackScience – How to Utilize Open-Source Automation in the Lab
- 07_Novartis – Collaborative Robots and SiLA
- 08_cubuslab – SiLA-To-Go Enabling the Next Generation of Lab Intelligence
- 09_TUDresden – SmartLab Systems-Previous Work & Future Plans
- 10_BSSN – Cross-Instrument Data Integration, Processing and Visualization
- 11_Seyonic – Complete Liquid Handling Traceability using SiLA-AnIML Data Standard
- 12_Credimex – Robot Vision System Aids Automated Teaching of Positions
- 13_FraunhoferIPA – IPA and SiLA-A Success Story