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Notes from the lab × data frontier.

SEPTEMBER 2026

From five systems of record to one: data engineering for lab analytics

Nobody demos the ETL. Everybody depends on it: unifying LIMS, custom apps, and instrument data into analysis-ready tables.

DATA ENGINEERINGSNOWFLAKEDATABRICKSSNOWPARK MLMLFLOW
SEPTEMBER 2026

Building Genie: an enterprise GenAI platform for regulated R&D

Natural-language querying over scientific databases, MCP servers, and the discipline of trustworthy refusal.

GENAIRAGMCPPROMPT ENGINEERING
SEPTEMBER 2026

97% accuracy on fungal contamination detection with SAM

From one crowded image of twenty petri dishes to per-leaf infection maps: the staged vision pipeline behind it.

SAMCOMPUTER VISIONAZURE MLNVIDIA TRITONMLOPS
SEPTEMBER 2026

Converse, confirm, create: a GenAI POC for LabVantage master data

Admins talk master data into existence for LabVantage, with human approval gating every single write.

GENAIRAGLANGCHAINVECTOR DBMCPLABVANTAGE
SEPTEMBER 2026

Counting thrips: when your dataset is a wriggling crowd

Hundreds of thrips in one dish image, larvae and adults mixed, counting them all with computer vision.

OBJECT DETECTIONAZURE CONTAINER APPSNVIDIA TRITONMLOPS