Journal of Laboratory Automation

Translating Life Sciences Innovation! In January 2017, JALA will become SLAS Technology.

JALA explores ways in which scientists adapt advancements in technology for scientific exploration and experimentation.

The Journal of Laboratory Automation (JALA) is a rigorously peer-reviewed, multi-disciplinary journal devoted to the advancement of technology for conducting life sciences and biomedical R&D. It is an official journal of the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS), and provides a unique international forum for the presentation of method-focused scientific reports.

The journal emphasizes scientific and technical advances that enable and improve life sciences research and development; drug-delivery; diagnostics; biomedical and molecular imaging; and personalized and precision medicine. This includes high-throughput and other laboratory automation technologies; micro/nanotechnologies; analytical, separation and quantitative techniques; synthetic chemistry and biology; informatics (data analysis, statistics, bio, genomic and chemoinformatics); and more.

JALA authors, readers, and reviewers are academic, commercial, and government researchers, scientists, and engineers who conduct research and develop new technologies to increase productivity, elevate data quality, reduce lab process cycle times, or enable experimentation that otherwise would be impossible.

This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)