News, release notes, and videos from grit42.https://grit42.com/https://grit42.com/news/what-gets-lost-when-send-ends-at-submission/https://grit42.com/news/what-gets-lost-when-send-ends-at-submission/In many nonclinical workflows, SEND appears near the end of the process. The study has been designed and executed. Data has been collected, reviewed, analysed, and reported. Then…Thu, 07 May 2026 13:53:39 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/how-grit-supports-open-science-drug-discovery-teams/https://grit42.com/news/how-grit-supports-open-science-drug-discovery-teams/Open science in drug discovery is gaining momentum, and for good reason - when knowledge is shared, research accelerates. It also seems that funding bodies of international…Fri, 21 Nov 2025 13:09:28 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/your-pipeline-is-multimodal-so-why-isnt-your-data-management-platform/https://grit42.com/news/your-pipeline-is-multimodal-so-why-isnt-your-data-management-platform/Drug discovery is no longer a single-modality game. What once looked like a world dominated by small molecules has evolved into a landscape where antisense oligos, siRNA,…Wed, 05 Nov 2025 11:10:16 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/using-vocabularies-to-enforce-data-consistency/https://grit42.com/news/using-vocabularies-to-enforce-data-consistency/Research data is a valuable asset, and ensuring it is findable and accessible to other scientists is, of course, key to maximising its value. However, this alone is not enough.…Tue, 12 Aug 2025 09:20:49 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/a-smoother-way-to-upload-data-to-your-data-store/https://grit42.com/news/a-smoother-way-to-upload-data-to-your-data-store/Most people can see the value of a central database with FAIR data that can be accessed across departments and organisations. It creates the best foundation for an efficient drug…Mon, 30 Jun 2025 08:40:13 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/two-weeks-into-going-open-source-what-did-we-learn-so-far/https://grit42.com/news/two-weeks-into-going-open-source-what-did-we-learn-so-far/We are now two weeks into our new open source grit endeavour. So, what happened after the big launch day? When you spend a lot of time preparing for launching or, in this case,…Wed, 21 May 2025 06:16:25 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/launch-day-the-open-source-version-of-grit-is-now-live/https://grit42.com/news/launch-day-the-open-source-version-of-grit-is-now-live/In October, we decided to turn our business upside down and offer our main product, the scientific data management platform grit , for free and as open source. Today, we’re…Mon, 05 May 2025 05:00:00 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/open-source-the-benefits-the-drawbacks-and-the-things-to-consider/https://grit42.com/news/open-source-the-benefits-the-drawbacks-and-the-things-to-consider/At grit42, we have decided to change direction and offer our Scientific Data Management Platform , grit, as open source. We have done so, because we believe it can prove valuable…Mon, 31 Mar 2025 18:23:55 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/were-launching-our-open-source-platform-with-a-brand-new-data-model/https://grit42.com/news/were-launching-our-open-source-platform-with-a-brand-new-data-model/Sometimes doing things right takes a bit of time. Since we made the decision to open source our grit Scientific Data Management Platform, we've been itching to get the new version…Mon, 24 Mar 2025 07:00:00 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/how-open-source-software-can-support-sustainability-in-research-projects/https://grit42.com/news/how-open-source-software-can-support-sustainability-in-research-projects/Sustainability in public-private partnership research projects is typically as challenging as it is important, and often, the software or database used in the projects plays a key…Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:22:38 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/first-vict3r-paper-grit42s-database-a-core-part-of-the-project/https://grit42.com/news/first-vict3r-paper-grit42s-database-a-core-part-of-the-project/The VICT3R project aims to replace the use of live animal control groups in animal studies with Virtual Control Groups based on high-quality historical control data. The…Tue, 21 Jan 2025 07:00:00 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/software-selling-is-broken/https://grit42.com/news/software-selling-is-broken/It feels like we all took a wrong turn somewhere. The destination was supposed to be meaningful conversations between software vendors and buyers, clarifying needs and creating…Mon, 02 Dec 2024 10:02:42 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/overwhelming-interest-in-our-open-source-platform/https://grit42.com/news/overwhelming-interest-in-our-open-source-platform/It’s been a week since we announced that we will start offering our scientific data management platform, grit, free and open source. And the feedback has been overwhelmingly…Mon, 11 Nov 2024 12:56:50 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/weve-decided-to-offer-our-platform-as-open-source-heres-why/https://grit42.com/news/weve-decided-to-offer-our-platform-as-open-source-heres-why/Our main product, the grit Scientific Data Management Platform , is about to change. We decided to stop selling the platform on a traditional software license and instead offer it…Fri, 01 Nov 2024 12:21:42 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/how-to-stay-in-control-of-stable-capacity-when-planning-animal-studies/https://grit42.com/news/how-to-stay-in-control-of-stable-capacity-when-planning-animal-studies/Data scientist : "Do we have room to start an in vivo study with 50 animals in 3 weeks?" Vet: "Well, that depends…" A conversation about animal capacity could very well go…Wed, 25 Sep 2024 07:33:52 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/grit42-receives-dkk-13-5m-to-reduce-animal-use-in-toxicology-studies/https://grit42.com/news/grit42-receives-dkk-13-5m-to-reduce-animal-use-in-toxicology-studies/grit42 plays a key role in the EU project VICT3R, launched today to reduce the need for animals in medical research. The aim is to replace live animals with virtual control groups…Mon, 16 Sep 2024 10:13:45 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/how-to-prevent-your-external-cro-data-from-creating-a-mess/https://grit42.com/news/how-to-prevent-your-external-cro-data-from-creating-a-mess/Keeping track of internal research data in a drug discovery organisation so that the data is stored in accessible formats and named so that others than the data producer can find,…Fri, 16 Aug 2024 06:47:04 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/how-to-create-alignment-and-maintain-innovation-in-drug-discovery/https://grit42.com/news/how-to-create-alignment-and-maintain-innovation-in-drug-discovery/There's no point in trying to hide it: Aligning processes and integrating tools in a drug discovery organisation is often a bit of a hassle. It requires resources and discipline,…Tue, 02 Jul 2024 09:08:51 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/video-drug-discovery-project-management/https://grit42.com/news/video-drug-discovery-project-management/This video will give you an introduction to the grit project tool and how this support the drug discovery process.Tue, 25 Jun 2024 07:10:40 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/grit-project-as-analysis-tool/https://grit42.com/news/grit-project-as-analysis-tool/Learn how you can use grit project as an analysis tool in your drug discovery process.Tue, 25 Jun 2024 07:04:15 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/a-project-tool-to-support-your-drug-discovery-process/https://grit42.com/news/a-project-tool-to-support-your-drug-discovery-process/In many drug discovery organisations, analysing and evaluating data is a matter of juggling numerous Excel sheets and manually keeping track of the phases of the screening…Wed, 19 Jun 2024 19:20:30 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/ford/https://grit42.com/news/ford/New release - April 2024 For details regarding new features please refer to the knowledge base. This is a "stabilising" release with a number of improvements and bugfixes but no…Thu, 06 Jun 2024 13:38:38 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/taking-the-risk-of-manual-mistakes-out-of-curve-fitting/https://grit42.com/news/taking-the-risk-of-manual-mistakes-out-of-curve-fitting/The process of curve fitting is a fundamental step in interpreting data in drug discovery, and the process may seem straightforward: Feed a plate into a reader, get an output, and…Wed, 22 May 2024 13:16:55 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/the-most-important-benefits-of-scientific-data-management-platforms-in-drug-discovery/https://grit42.com/news/the-most-important-benefits-of-scientific-data-management-platforms-in-drug-discovery/In drug discovery, laboratories generate a lot of data from various pieces of equipment and data systems. Often this data is formatted for a specific use case making it difficult…Tue, 23 Apr 2024 09:12:33 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/how-to-go-faster-from-hypothesis-to-results-in-preclinical-drug-discovery/https://grit42.com/news/how-to-go-faster-from-hypothesis-to-results-in-preclinical-drug-discovery/Speed of progress is an important parameter in drug discovery. Not just because moving fast is by default good but because there are several potential business benefits of…Thu, 21 Mar 2024 07:50:52 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/intro-to-gritinvivo/https://grit42.com/news/intro-to-gritinvivo/Watch this video for a short introduction to our gritInVivo application.Mon, 11 Mar 2024 12:59:12 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/intro-gritanimal/https://grit42.com/news/intro-gritanimal/In this video Claus Stie Kallesøe of grit42 introduces the gritAnimal application.Mon, 11 Mar 2024 09:27:22 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/a-guide-to-finding-the-best-curve-fitting-tool-for-your-need/https://grit42.com/news/a-guide-to-finding-the-best-curve-fitting-tool-for-your-need/Curve fitting is used as the final data analysis step in many plate-based in vitro experiments and is therefore performed several times per week in most research organisations.…Thu, 29 Feb 2024 08:04:26 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/fenchurch/https://grit42.com/news/fenchurch/New release - February 2024 For details regarding new features please refer to the knowledge base pages. This release include the first draft of the Project tool as well as a…Mon, 26 Feb 2024 12:17:21 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/why-fair-needs-to-be-a-foundational-principle-in-all-drug-discovery-labs/https://grit42.com/news/why-fair-needs-to-be-a-foundational-principle-in-all-drug-discovery-labs/I have been part of the "biopharma data management community" for 25 years and during that period I’ve visited many different labs and seen how they perform their data management…Wed, 31 Jan 2024 10:26:28 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/grit-product-suite-explained/https://grit42.com/news/grit-product-suite-explained/Get an introduction to the individual applications in the grit platform and how they fit together.Thu, 18 Jan 2024 11:53:10 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/how-excel-kills-the-need-for-speed-in-pre-clinical-drug-discovery/https://grit42.com/news/how-excel-kills-the-need-for-speed-in-pre-clinical-drug-discovery/Excel is a lovely tool which I guess we all use for our small private data overviews and analysis. It's been around for so long that most of us by default reach for "the…Tue, 09 Jan 2024 09:48:56 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/introducing-a-new-suite-of-grit-products/https://grit42.com/news/introducing-a-new-suite-of-grit-products/It's almost Christmas....but already today - 12/12 - we reveal some goodies from the grit42 lab. We have been a bit silent on the outside as we have been working hard on the…Tue, 12 Dec 2023 06:56:30 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/effrafax/https://grit42.com/news/effrafax/New release -  December 2023 For details regarding new features please refer to the knowledge base pages. This release has seen a lot of changes to the development stack. Mainly…Tue, 05 Dec 2023 07:43:18 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/passwords-display-settings-api-token/https://grit42.com/news/passwords-display-settings-api-token/In this video you will see how the user can change their password, change the display settings - both colour and density - and create an API token which is needed when working…Fri, 01 Dec 2023 13:09:43 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/sar-from-compounds/https://grit42.com/news/sar-from-compounds/In this video, I show you how to create the starting point for a SAR table from a Compound search.Fri, 01 Dec 2023 12:34:42 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/compound-grid/https://grit42.com/news/compound-grid/Watch this video to learn how you can sort and filter the compound data as well as manipulate the number and order of the columns.Fri, 01 Dec 2023 12:05:55 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/define-your-plate-layout-in-gritcurvefit/https://grit42.com/news/define-your-plate-layout-in-gritcurvefit/In this video, Claus Stie Kallesøe from grit42 will show you how to easily define your plate layout in gritCurveFit.Wed, 29 Nov 2023 13:25:15 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/add-compound-mapping-in-gritcurvefit/https://grit42.com/news/add-compound-mapping-in-gritcurvefit/In this video, Claus Stie Kallesøe from grit42 will show you how to add compound mapping in gritCurveFit.Wed, 29 Nov 2023 13:06:03 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/eddie/https://grit42.com/news/eddie/New release -  October 2023 For details regarding new features please refer to the knowledge base pages. Features: Animals Improvements: UI update of the Application grid Setups…Wed, 18 Oct 2023 14:27:48 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/colin/https://grit42.com/news/colin/New release - June 2023 For details regarding new features please refer to the knowledge base pages. Features Full Invivo plugin with new In life and Samples tabs. The full Invivo…Wed, 18 Oct 2023 14:22:14 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/deepthought/https://grit42.com/news/deepthought/New release - August 2023 For details regarding new features please refer to the knowledge base pages. Features Plate based curve fitting. New Setup Plugin which allows defining…Wed, 30 Aug 2023 10:34:00 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/fraunhofer-digital-fight-against-amr/https://grit42.com/news/fraunhofer-digital-fight-against-amr/Today Fraunhofer and grit42 announced that their collaboration across multiple AntiMicrobial Resistance (AMR) projects – funded by the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) – has…Wed, 06 Apr 2022 04:00:37 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/slartibartfast/https://grit42.com/news/slartibartfast/We wish all of our customers, partners, family, friends, and designers of Norwegian fjords a very merry Christmas and a happy new year! Despite another year shadowed by the global…Thu, 23 Dec 2021 10:36:59 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/contera-grit42/https://grit42.com/news/contera-grit42/Copenhagen, Denmark — December 14, 2021 — Today grit42 announces that its platform for scientific data management and analysis, has been selected by Contera Pharma, a biotech…Tue, 14 Dec 2021 06:00:28 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/merry-christmas-from-grit42-and-zaphod-beeblebrox/https://grit42.com/news/merry-christmas-from-grit42-and-zaphod-beeblebrox/What a strange year. And what could be more fitting than making a special custom LEGO minifigure of Zaphod Beeblebrox. The character behind the famous words: “ If there’s anything…Wed, 23 Dec 2020 15:35:12 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/era4tb/https://grit42.com/news/era4tb/More than 30 partners from 13 countries participate in the ERA4TB project Copenhagen, Denmark — January 29, 2020 — The ERA4TB (European Regimen Accelerator for Tuberculosis)…Wed, 29 Jan 2020 12:00:56 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/minifig2019/https://grit42.com/news/minifig2019/We wish all of our customers, partners, family, friends, and (depressed) robots a very merry Christmas and a happy new year! If you’ve been following our news feed over the last…Tue, 17 Dec 2019 20:55:43 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/imi-pillar-a/https://grit42.com/news/imi-pillar-a/COMBINE will support the coordination of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI) Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Accelerator Programme to progress a pipeline of medicines for the…Tue, 03 Dec 2019 00:00:41 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/grit42-joins-beam-alliance/https://grit42.com/news/grit42-joins-beam-alliance/Today, the digital laboratory specialists, grit42, joins the BEAM (Biotech companies in Europe combating AntiMicrobial Resistance) Alliance. The BEAM Alliance is a network of 72…Sun, 17 Nov 2019 18:01:10 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/fraunhofer/https://grit42.com/news/fraunhofer/AntiMicrobial Resistance (AMR) is a global and serious threat to human health. Gram-negative bacteria are widely regarded as the culprit representing one of the gravest dangers.…Tue, 27 Aug 2019 00:01:53 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/gnanow/https://grit42.com/news/gnanow/New partnership will advance three antibacterial programmes as part of the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), a public-private European R&D consortium. Today, Evotec SE…Thu, 01 Aug 2019 05:25:12 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/evotecgrit42/https://grit42.com/news/evotecgrit42/Evotec is a globally operating drug discovery and development partnership company whose focus areas include infectious diseases. In this area Evotec works on a large portfolio of…Thu, 23 May 2019 06:55:29 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/mbrose/https://grit42.com/news/mbrose/Copenhagen, Denmark — December 18, 2018 — Today, grit42 announced the partnership with MBRose, the leading provider of systems for the study of food and water intake of group…Tue, 18 Dec 2018 07:01:15 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/new-logistics-app/https://grit42.com/news/new-logistics-app/Today, we’ve released our Logistics app, which works seamlessly together with our platform and other applications. The features of the Logistics app include stock room management,…Thu, 06 Dec 2018 08:00:54 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/dk-openscreen/https://grit42.com/news/dk-openscreen/Copenhagen, Denmark — November 29, 2018 — Today, DK-OPENSCREEN announced the selection of the digital laboratory infrastructure specialists, grit42, to provide the infrastructure…Thu, 29 Nov 2018 08:00:17 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/omnilog/https://grit42.com/news/omnilog/Today we officially released our Growth Curves app, which supports analysis of high-throughput phenotypic microarray data from the OmniLog® instrument, made by Biolog. Among other…Tue, 02 Oct 2018 07:08:54 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/2017recap/https://grit42.com/news/2017recap/2017 has really been a positive year of change for us, here at grit42. After going through a big UX project, we launched version 2.0 of our software, much to the liking of all our…Mon, 18 Dec 2017 10:42:32 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/startup-catch22/https://grit42.com/news/startup-catch22/Recently Dr. Steve Arlington, President of The Pistoia Alliance, had a great piece on reasons for why large pharmaceutical companies should support the growth of startups .…Mon, 11 Dec 2017 13:03:27 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/pistoia-alliance/https://grit42.com/news/pistoia-alliance/Copenhagen, Denmark — November 28, 2017 — Today grit42 is excited to join the Pistoia Alliance’s group of life sciences industry experts and their quest to bring the full…Tue, 28 Nov 2017 12:16:44 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/pee-in-a-pool/https://grit42.com/news/pee-in-a-pool/How many times have you heard infinite buzzwords around using this new cool tech that’ll enable you to reveal the data goldmine you’re already sitting on? That applying Big Data /…Thu, 23 Nov 2017 12:00:56 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/leopharma-grit42/https://grit42.com/news/leopharma-grit42/Copenhagen, Denmark — October 12, 2017 — LEO Pharma A/S selects grit42 as its strategic partner in a new initiative to promote data driven drug discovery research. LEO Pharma…Thu, 12 Oct 2017 08:11:55 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/version2/https://grit42.com/news/version2/After launching the company in 2014 and getting multiple customers on their original platform, grit42 has spent the past year revamping their platform with more features, multiple…Tue, 10 Oct 2017 10:12:00 GMThttps://grit42.com/news/excel-hell/https://grit42.com/news/excel-hell/…said no scientist ever. However, on a daily basis most of the biotech and pharma research labs still deal with Excel hell: The infinite and tedious copy/paste between different…Thu, 28 Sep 2017 11:33:01 GMT