Philip Timmerman, Katja Zeiser, Connor Walker, Robert Nelson, Michaela Golob, Matthew Barfield
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Abstract
As artificial intelligence enters bioanalysis, traditional validation frameworks, designed for static, deterministic systems are proving unfit for purpose. This paper, developed from the 2025 European Bioanalysis Forum Spring Focus Workshop, challenges the assumption that applications using artificial intelligence should be validated like conventional tools. We propose a shift toward adaptive qualification: an approach rooted in scientific oversight, contextual relevance and earned trust. Reframing artificial intelligence as a learning system, more trainee than tool, we explore how oversight must evolve beyond compliance to ensure transparency, robustness and fitness for purpose. Above all, we argue that scientists must remain at the helm. Not to preserve legacy processes, but to guide this evolving landscape with clarity, collaboration and responsibility, keeping innovation sharp and the patient in focus.
BioanalysisBIOCHEMICAL RESEARCH METHODS-CHEMISTRY, ANALYTICAL
CiteScore
3.30
自引率
16.70%
发文量
88
审稿时长
2 months
期刊介绍:
Reliable data obtained from selective, sensitive and reproducible analysis of xenobiotics and biotics in biological samples is a fundamental and crucial part of every successful drug development program. The same principles can also apply to many other areas of research such as forensic science, toxicology and sports doping testing.
The bioanalytical field incorporates sophisticated techniques linking sample preparation and advanced separations with MS and NMR detection systems, automation and robotics. Standards set by regulatory bodies regarding method development and validation increasingly define the boundaries between speed and quality.
Bioanalysis is a progressive discipline for which the future holds many exciting opportunities to further reduce sample volumes, analysis cost and environmental impact, as well as to improve sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, efficiency, assay throughput, data quality, data handling and processing.
The journal Bioanalysis focuses on the techniques and methods used for the detection or quantitative study of analytes in human or animal biological samples. Bioanalysis encourages the submission of articles describing forward-looking applications, including biosensors, microfluidics, miniaturized analytical devices, and new hyphenated and multi-dimensional techniques.
Bioanalysis delivers essential information in concise, at-a-glance article formats. Key advances in the field are reported and analyzed by international experts, providing an authoritative but accessible forum for the modern bioanalyst.