The Virtual Bioseparation Laboratory
The virtual laboratory is a hybrid PSE that encompasses all
research activities occurring
the scientific laboratory environment, both "wet" and "dry".
It is a software layer above
the experimental and computational processes which exist in the physical
laboratory side by side. The virtual laboratory attempts to
bring these two models of scientific research together in a way that
allows them to interact with each other, so that feedback
from one can enhance and improve the methodologies applied in the other.
The BioSoftLab view of the physical laboratory
demonstrates that physical experimentation, numerical simulation,
and the teaching of experimental methodology can all coexist within
a single environment. In fact, these various facets of the
physical laboratory view are linked together and interact with
each other in exciting and important new ways.