To provide high-quality siRNA screening services for both internal and external customers is what the newly established Small Interfering Ribonucleic Acid (siRNA) Facility at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center has been charged with.

Increasing throughput, while reducing the risk of errors, and providing automation for the management of operations in its siRNA Laboratory, M. D. Anderson has chosen Stone Bond Technologies’ EE-LIMS™ to document activities within the laboratory workflow at its siRNA facility.

Small interfering RNA, as one of the newest fields in the study of nucleic acids, has shown considerable potential in laboratory studies to change how diseases are treated. Labs specializing in this area, considering how difficult it is to work with these molecules and the specialized equipment devoted to their isolation and study, have a strong need to document the work that goes into producing genetic data that corresponds to the RNA in a given sample.

Recipient of the Bio-IT World magazine’s Grand Prize winner for technical innovation in its annual Best Practice awards, in the category of IT Infrastructure and Informatics, Stone Bond’s LIMS is an award-winning Web-based laboratory information management system. EE-LIMS, built on Stone Bond’s powerful and versatile Enterprise Enabler integration platform, automates laboratory workflows, invoicing, data and sample tracking, collections and other business processes to help laboratories reduce overhead and administrative costs.