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  • SiLA at Lab of the Future Europe Congress, September 26-27, Amsterdam, NL
  • SiLA at BioTechX, October 4-6, Basel, CH
  • SiLA at ELRIG Drug Discovery 2023, October 18-19, Liverpool, UK
  • SiLA at niCLAS 2023, October 26, Stuttgart, Germany
  • SiLA at Future Labs, Automation & Technology West, November 14, San Diego, USA

https://mailchi.mp/sila-standard.org/upcoming_events-6260558

The OECD Book on Ai and Science. Includes a chapter by Ross King and SiLA Board Members, Patrick Courtney, Oliver Peter: Robot scientists: From Adam to Eve to Genesis.

The book can be downloaded for free in PDF or webbook format – both in its entirety and by chapter.

Dear SiLA friends

Just before summer vacation – SiLA’ s July newsletter is now available for download.

We hope you enjoy the news!

Topics are:

  • Review of Labvolution Hannover, May 9-11
  • RFP: SiLA App Installer
  • Review of PDA Robotics and Automation Conference, May 3
  • Robotics-4-Lab Automation Symposium, May 25
  • Review SLAS Europe, May 22-26
  • Standardization is about cooperation – FutureLabs LIVE
  • NEW RELEASED: Artificial Intelligence in Science: Challenges, Opportunities and the Future of Science
  • Wiley Analytical Science Magazine on SiLA at Future Labs Live
  • SiLA AnIML splash at Future Labs LIVE
  • SiLA compatible products: C.WASH and G.PURE
  • SiLA at Lab of the Future Europe
  • Save the date: SiLA at Drug Discovery 2023
  • Where to meet us next

Dear SiLA friends and members

Those who have been following the discussion during the last month are probably aware that that the SiLA Consortium would like to make the rich code base generated by the SiLA community more accessible to endusers, namely in environments where funds are limited.

Our code contributors and repository maintainers have already made major efforts to remove bugs and make programs as easily deployable as possible. As a next step, we would like to provide the community with an easy to use graphical frontend to our code repositories a.k.a. SiLA installer.

Find here the detailed request for proposal. If you feel motivated and competent to develop a professional, modular, and expandable software project with focus on usability and user experience please submit your proposal until 15. Of August 2023 to the SiLA board.

We look forward to hear from you!

Kind regards,

Your SiLA-Team

 

Dear SiLA friends

Just before Easter vacation – SiLA’ s April newsletter is now available for download.

We hope you enjoy the news!

Topics are:
– SLAS 2023 in San Diego – yet another great event !
– Presentations@SLAS: One standard – an all around perspective
– SiLA splash at SLAS
– Review of Deutsche Biotechnologietage in Wiesbaden, Mar 28-29
– Astech Project released it’s LabExpert®
– SiLA at Pharma Automation & Robotics, April 20-21, London UK,
– Robotics-4-Labautomation Symposium, May 25th, Konstanz
– SiLA Demo Workgroup-Update
– PDA Robotics and Automation Conference
– FutureLabs LIVE – Standardization is about cooperation
We hope you enjoy the news!

Dear SiLA friends and members

The January issue of the SiLA Connection-Newsletter is available for download.

We are sharing the following exciting news and information with you:

  • 2023 New Year Address by the SiLA President
  • Forthcoming events. See you in sunny San Diego for SLAS2023
  • Review of past events FutureLabs US, laboratory automation with ELRIG and at EPFL
  • Launch of SiLA Implementation Working Group
  • Update on the SiLA Robotics Working Group
  • BioSASH recordings available on youtube
  • Red Dot Award 2022 Winner – Deft
  • Congratulations to our “speak-SiLA-to-me” Winners!

We hope you enjoy the news!

 

Sharing the final #bioSASH video with you!

Thank you for your interest in SiLA and wishing you all a happy and healthy holiday season.

 

Dear Friends of Standardized Laboratory Automation

The releases of SiLA 2 and Universal SiLA client have been major milestones for the SiLA consortium and the growing list of sila_awesome implementations evidences communities interest.

For expert users GitLab and GitHub provide rich resources for own adaptions and implementations, non-expert user may, however, be overwhelmed by installation- and configuration options.

Giving scientists a way to test SiLA in their own lab and at the same ease as one can run free trial software could greatly help to establish SiLA as a standard.

This requires a well-chosen collection of pre-configured SiLA Implementations (aka apps) and a demo-workflow wrapped inside a single-file installer.

The demo workflow should be generic and useful even in the absence of special laboratory automation hardware, e.g. guide through protocols, identify and manage samples, read labQR codes, and auto-magically document results.

To collectively brainstorm about a demo-workflow, find suitable existing and missing implementations, and to define work-packages to get it running, we would like to call for participation in the new SiLA demo working group.

Online kick-off meeting will be on January 19th, 2023, at 4pm CET.

Please sign up for the kick-off meeting via Google form or by mail at info@sila-standard.org. The link to the online platform will be sent to you in due time.

For questions, comments, and topics to be discussed please do not hesitate to contact our WG leader and SiLA Director, Tim Meyer, directly at tim.meyer@med.uni-goettingen.de or on the SiLA-Slack channel #sila_demo_wg

We look forward to meeting you in January!

Kind regards,
Your SiLA Team

Another “goodie” from the bioSASH hackathon end of September in Konstanz:

Pick & place labware transportation with benchtop and mobile robots

We hope you enjoy the presentation given by Ádám Wolf, Working Group leader of the SiLA robotics working group.

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