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Digital Transformation of the Laboratory
A Practical Guide to the Connected Lab
Edited by
Klemen Zupancic
Tea Pavlek
Jana Erjavec
The Editors
Klemen Zupancic
SciNote LLC
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Tea Pavlek
SciNote LLC
3000 Parmenter St.
53562 Middleton WI
United States
Jana Erjavec
BioSistemika LLC
Koprska ulica 98
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
Cover Image: Tea Pavlek
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Preface
The subject of digital transformation is actually about you.
Your science, your everyday work environment, your partnerships and collaborations, and the impact of your work on the future of scientific progress.
Welcome to this book.
As a brilliant astronomer, Maria Mitchell once said, “mingle the starlight with your lives and you won't be fretted by trifles.”
The greater meaning of digital transformation shifts the perspective toward the global scheme of things. The main evaluating factors behind the lab digitalization and digital transformation answer important questions: Are we improving the quality, efficiency, and the pace of innovation?
Lab digitalization is a people‐driven initiative that aims to address the global challenges and provide solutions, backed by unquestionable integrity of traceable and reproducible scientific data.
At the moment, regardless of the laboratory type or size, people are struggling with the
