Biotech, Pharmaceutical, and Medical

Industry Segments

• Bioinformatics
• Pharmacokinetics / Pharmacodynamics
• Biosignal Processing and Data Analysis
• Biomedical Imaging
• Medical Devices and Instrumentation Design
• Lab Automation and Instrument Control

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Lab Automation and Instrument Control

One of the challenges in lab automation is to assemble equipment from different vendors into a single, homogeneous machine that can be quickly and easily programmed to automate a variety of tasks and to collect and analyze data from different sources. Typically, lab automation platforms consist of an articulated arm, fluid handling robots, detection devices, sensors and actuators controlled through digital or analog I/O boards, or multifunction I/O boards and other data acquisition devices.

Researchers use MATLAB^® to integrate apparatus control, data acquisition, and data analysis. With minimal programming knowledge they can use MATLAB software to build scripts and functions that are readable and modifiable. They can also communicate with and collect data from external hardware and analyze that data in the integrated MATLAB environment.

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