SiLA will achieve all major goals set in the plan for the year 2009 and has even started additional activities such as standardisation of labware specifications and data capture.
The most intensive part of the work, SiLA’s General Interface Specification (Part I) has been finalized by end of August, Part II will be completed before end of this year. As a result, the SiLA standard will be ready for implementation by end of 2009 .
The 2009 SiLA success stories are as follows:
- SiLA General Interface Specification (Part I) V1.0 is released and available.
- First draft of SiLA Data Class Specifications will be ready for review in Q4 2009
- Status of SiLA Device Class Interface Specifications
- Incubators: ready for review
- Dispensers: ready for review
- Readers: under development
- Pipettors: workgroup will start during the last quarter of this year
- Robots: workgroup will start during the last quarter of this year
- SiLA Labware Parameter Settings First draft will be available by end of Q4 2009
- Research Project for Standardisation of result data structures and formats
- Pilot Projects
Several member companies started their first implementations of the SiLA interface standard in pilot projects and products development already in Q3. - SiLA Certification procedures and trainings are being prepared to allow us offering these services during the course of the first half of 2010 to our implementation partners.
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