Communication Solutions

Repligen Corporation, a biotechnology company focused on the development of novel therapeutics for diseases that affect the central nervous system, has selected Amphora Research Systems, a provider of electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) products, for the rollout of PatentSafe seats for researchers.

 

With digital signatures for legal patent evidence, Repligen Corporation piloted Amphora's PatentSafe solution for two months in labs throughout their Research Division as a fully-electronic ELN.

 

To archive critical research data and report, PatentSafe provides a cross-platform, server centric, Web-based ELN solution, with which scientists and research managers get fully searchable, organized e-mail notification/escalation. Lowering the barriers to adoption, PatentSafe uniquely achieves this objective with minimal change to existing workflows.

 

With the help of PatentSafe, scientists can work using whatever tools suit their research needs best and still collaborate easily on their projects. Scientists can typically save between 15 minutes to an hour per day as they no longer have to 'cut and stick' computer printouts into their traditional bound laboratory notebook. Also, all work is fully protected for patent and IP purposes and the entire PatentSafe notebook can be searched and shared with colleagues.

 

PatentSafe offers a modular replacement that fits into an existing workflow allowing scientists to continue creating documentation in the most appropriate form for their work. Instead of sending the documents to a printer, researchers simply send the documents they already produced to PatentSafe. With this, they eliminate the need to re-work the original document creation workflow as experimental write-ups still come from their original source application.

 

Allison Coles, COO and co-founder of Amphora, explains, "In order to get enthusiastic take up of new systems it is important not to disrupt people's natural working patterns. When users see the benefits quickly and easily, without having to add extra unproductive tasks to their day, news spreads by word of mouth and more people want to come onboard. This in turn increases the returns for the organization as a whole.”