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Big 2024 Plans: Building the First Multimodal R&D Platform
Late last year, we introduced Dotmatics Luma™, a multimodal scientific R&D platform that helps teams more easily collect, manage, and use their scientific data. Developed with input from scientists, database administrators, and IT experts, Luma is an out-of-the-box, low-code, SaaS platform that addresses the most common obstacles standing in the way of research productivity, data-driven innovation, and AI readiness.
A big challenge that many companies face is collecting R&D data from all of their teams’ various lab instrumentation, equipment, systems, and CROs. As multimodal R&D becomes increasingly essential to driving innovation, and data flows in from various research groups and technology sources, this challenge is only growing. Companies may need to support hundreds or even thousands of lab-data producers, collect massive volumes of complex data, deal with a wide range of encrypted and vendor-specific outputs, and prepare and annotate diverse data so that scientists can actually correlate and use it. IT and database administrators often need to juggle countless scripts, parsers, and data-wrangling tasks, all while scientists anxiously await the data needed to progress their work. Teams may resort to time-consuming, hands-on, data-transfer-and-preparation processes that can threaten data security, integrity, and completeness and, ultimately, compromise downstream research.
Streamlining data acquisition and preparation is essential for companies looking to establish FAIR data practices, ensure data integrity, and optimize multimodal, data-driven R&D. To help, we’ve created a complete connected-lab solution called Luma Lab Connect—the first-available product within the Dotmatics Luma platform.
Complete Data-Lifecycle Management on One Platform
Luma unlocks the value of your scientific data by uniting the entire data-analytics lifecycle—from initial ingestion, to centralized data management and processing, to advanced modeling and analysis—all within a unified platform. The result? Seamless lab integration that gets you from instrument to insight faster.
Data Acquisition
Create a comprehensive picture of your data by integrating with virtually any data source (e.g., instruments, scientific applications, ELNs, libraries, registries, files, CRO uploads) to pull in data of any volume, type, or format, including structured/semi-structured/unstructured data, sequence, numeric, text, image, metadata, etc.
Luma Lab Connect can upload directly from any equipment from any manufacturer; it:
Works with any file-based instrument, equipment, or scientific system (e.g., liquid chromatography mass spectrometers, flow cytometers, bioreactors, cell analyzers, imagers, plate viewers, etc.).
Uploads files from Windows, Linux, or S3 buckets automatically, continuously, and securely.
Integrates with SQL/JSON/CSV data sources.
Provides APIs to build additional integrations.
Cloud Processing
Automate the processing of ingested data so that it is quickly ready for downstream use and deeper analysis. All major processing for files in Luma is cloud-based so to enable operation at scale and remove the impact from any installed components on instrument operations.
Ingests data from 100+ instruments using out-of-the-box parsers, which require no additional configuration, helping to reduce errors and time spent moving data.
Offers out-of-the-box data models, or lets you build your own, to transform inaccessible, manufacturer data formats into usable, structured representations.
Lets you extend out-of-the-box functionality with easy-to-use-and-govern, low-code capabilities that help you quickly adapt when data needs change and use-cases evolve.
Deeper Analysis
Luma Lab Connect integrates directly with the Dotmatics Luma multimodal R&D data-management platform to facilitate downstream use and deeper analysis of your data. The Luma Platform unites all the tools needed to find, share, and output harmonized data into workflows, specialty apps, analytics and modeling programs, AI/ML algorithms, etc. so that researchers can quickly garner the insights needed to optimize their R&D efforts.
The Luma Platform:
Augments and correlates test results from instruments with additional data from external systems to help researchers make better decisions.
Is built on robust technologies, including AWS, Databricks, and Datadog, to guarantee performance, quality, and scale.
Automates data wrangling and extracts your data via JDBC, AWS EventBridge, Apache Nifi, or out-of-the-box GraphQL and REST APIs to drive FAIR data.
Places data at scientists’ fingertips with the ability to search and download data using a web client or via open APIs.
Provides out-of-the-box visualizations to analyze data and accelerate decision making, or lets you bring your own third-party visualization tools.
Automates data management, analysis, and reporting steps where possible to streamline operations and pave the way for meta-analysis and AI and ML-based algorithms.
Integrates with the world's leading scientific tools, such as OMIQ, Geneious, and Prism, for high-value scientific workflows.
Let users create and execute queries using natural language and GenerativeAI, providing unprecedented ability to easily analyze complex relationships.
Secures data in transit and at rest to protect your most important asset: your data.
The Luma Lab Connect Effect
Connecting your labs and automating data flows with Luma Lab Connect helps your company:
Eliminate errors caused by manual data entry.
Free scientists from hours of tedious, low-value tasks.
Empower your discovery engine with a single, shared, trustworthy data hub.
Luma Lab Connect is the first step toward optimizing data-driven, multimodal R&D because it:
Provides a fast, scalable, and reliable instrument-integration and connected-lab solution.
Enables you to automatically link test results to experiments.
Automates acquisition of terabytes of data from dozens to thousands data producers.
Transforms millions of raw data points into contextualized, analyzable data.
Reduces the onus put on already overburdened lab IT staff and administrators.
Delivers scientists the data they need to drive R&D without long wait times.
Ensures collection of error-free, auditable data for deeper modeling and analysis.
Request a Demo
There are a lot of exciting things to come for Dotmatics Luma in 2024.
Schedule a demo to see how Luma Lab Connect and the Luma scientific data-management platform can help your teams improve multimodal-research productivity, optimize data-driven innovation, and ensure AI-readiness.
