Buried in Data, Starving for Information: How measurement noise is blocking scientific progress.

Timothy S. Gardner, Founder/CEO

Today's breakthroughs lie deep in the midst of complex, multivariate data sets. Yet, experimental anomalies and fundamental discoveries often go unnoticed because they are buried in uninterpretable spreadsheets, inaccessible databases, or excessive experimental noise. Moreover, our educational system is failing to train our scientists in fundamental principles of experimental design, measurement systems analysis, and quality. The result is missed opportunities for scientific discovery, lost time chasing experimental artifacts, and stunted learning cycles. We will illustrate these issues with examples from present day research, and outline solutions to these problems derived from 100 years of statistical science and manufacturing quality principles.

Be sure to catch Tim Gardner's presentation in Technology Workshop 3: "Laboratory Data to Machine Learning in 30 seconds" on Tuesday, March 20th at 2:50pm.

Today's breakthroughs lie deep in the midst of complex, multivariate data sets. Experimental anomalies and fundamental discoveries often go unnoticed because they are buried in uninterpretable spreadsheets, inaccessible databases, or excessive experimental noise. The cloud-based Riffyn software structures and links experimental designs and measurement data for analysis within seconds after it is collected in the lab.  Riffyn will demonstrate how biotech companies are using this capability to identify unexpected correlations, uncover root causes of error, and deliver right-first-time technology scale-up.

Riffyn CEO, Tim Gardner, presents an on-demand webinar on Adaptive Process Design, Automation & Analytics in Laboratory R&D.  Sign-up for on-demand viewing at LabRoots.

Riffyn will attend the Life Sciences Future conference in Philadelphia, PA. Life Sciences Future has been heralded as the best and most important life sciences event in the mid-Atlantic region. To meet Riffyn at the conference please contact us!

Whole-cell models are promising tools for predicting phenotype from genotype by accounting for every individual gene and cell function. The goal of the 2016 Whole-Cell Modeling Summer School is to provide young investigators cutting-edge training in large-scale dynamical modeling and model integration.

Riffyn is presenting at the Allotrope Foundation Cross-Industry workshop hosted by Genentech in South San Francisco.  Event is open to anyone.  Register here.

Riffyn will provide a view of its iterative R&D process design and data analytics capabilities, and describe how we are integrating the Allotrope Framework to enable standardized import and export of designs, data and knowledge.

Riffyn CEO, Tim Gardner, presented Riffyn's vision for the next wave in the timeline of Synthetic Biology advancement: Measure Systems.  He showed how Riffyn is helping pave its software for visual design and sharing of experiments and processes in life sciences and chemistry.  Riffyn's offers a kind-of "source code control" software for laboratory research processes - capabilities the company hopes will advance a new era of open source science.

Riffyn is a member of the Allotrope Partner Network (APN) and will be joining the APN workshop on September 15 in Chicago to help define the tools and standards for scientific instrument data exchange. The Allotrope Foundation is an international association of pharmaceutical and biotech companies dedicated to the building of a “Laboratory Framework” to improve efficiency in data acquisition, archiving, and management.