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Welcome to LIMSwiki.org, the laboratory, health, and science informatics encyclopedia. Users have contributed: 1,701 articles. LIMSwiki is a collaborative wiki dedicated to the scientific community, featuring organized, documented, and up-to-date content regarding all aspects of laboratory informatics, bioinformatics, and health informatics. LIMSwiki also strives to maintain relevant knowledge about laboratory equipment as well as commercial and open-source software likely to be used in a laboratory setting. This also includes the vendors of such equipment and software. Like any community wiki, the value and success of LIMSwiki is dependent upon the scientific community contributing their vast knowledge through the creation of relevant articles and editing of existing articles where knowledge is absent. If you wish to enrich the content of this wiki or have something of value to add, please request an account and get started.

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Featured article of the week "Elegancy: Digitizing the wisdom from laboratories to the cloud with free no-code platform" One of the top priorities in any laboratory is archiving experimental data in the most secure, efficient, and errorless way. It is especially important to those in chemical and biological research, for it is more likely to damage experiment records. In addition, the transmission of experiment results from paper to electronic devices is time-consuming and redundant. Therefore, we introduce an open-source no-code electronic laboratory notebook (ELN), Elegancy, a cloud-based/standalone web service distributed as a Docker image. Elegancy fits all laboratories but is specially equipped with several features benefitting biochemical laboratories. It can be accessed via various web browsers, allowing researchers to upload photos or audio recordings directly from their mobile devices. Elegancy also contains a meeting arrangement module, audit/revision control, and laboratory supply management system. We believe Elegancy could help the scientific research community gather evidence, share information, reorganize knowledge, and digitize laboratory works with greater ease and security ... (Full article...) Recently featured: Implementing an institution-wide electronic laboratory notebook initiative Quality and environmental management systems as business tools to enhance ESG performance: A cross-regional empirical study PIKAChU: A Python-based informatics kit for analyzing chemical units — See more archived featured articles —

Learn more Need to know more about laboratory and other types of informatics? Here is some suggested reading:   Informatics Chromatography data management system Electronic laboratory notebook Laboratory execution system Laboratory information management system Laboratory information system Scientific data management system Compliance topics: All current regulatory articles 21 CFR Part 11 HIPAA NEW - LIMSwiki publications: The Complete Guide to LIMS & Lab Informatics

Key commercial laboratory informatics vendors What does it mean to be "key" for the purpose of this ranking? The criterion for a vendor selling proprietary commercial laboratory informatics software being listed here: the vendor's LIMSwiki page must have a cited (from a publicly-available source) price list. Those with demonstration videos are given higher preference; items ranked by number of videos. Go here for all listed vendors in the wiki. 1. LabLynx, Inc. 2. Two Fold Software Limited 3. BioData Inc. 4. Scilligence Corporation 5. LabArchives, LLC 6. Information Management Services, Inc. 7. Research Innovations Limited 8. labfolder GmbH 9. Biomatters Ltd. 10. eBioSys Pty. Ltd. 11. AgileBio 12. Cognium Systems SA 13. LABVANTAGE Solutions, Inc. 14. Thermo Scientific 15. Agilent Technologies, Inc. 16. Autoscribe Ltd. 17. Instrumentos Científicos SA 18. BiochemLab Solutions 19. NoteBookMaker, LLC 20. Sysment Kft. 21. LABTrack, LLC 22. The Edge Software Consultancy Ltd. 23. Blaze Systems Corporation 24. ChemWare, Inc. 25. CloudLIMS.com, LLC 26. Dynamic Databases, LLC 27. EZQuant Ltd. 28. LabWare, Inc. 29. Laucks Technical Services, LLC 30. STARLIMS Corporation 31. ChemBytes 32. FORMULATOR Software, LLC 33. Mountain States Consulting, LLC 34. shazino SAS 35. SLCLAB Informática SL 36. SparkLix Bio IT Corp. 37. SPLhost, Inc. 38. Summit Research Services 39. System Approach, Ltd. 40. TerraSystems

Laboratory informatics software and products Are you looking for LIMS software? An electronic laboratory notebook? Or perhaps laboratory equipment? Try these suggestions: All currently added active lab equipment and software vendors All currently added inactive lab equipment and software vendors CDMS vendors past and present ELN vendors past and present LIMS vendors past and present LIS vendors past and present SDMS vendors past and present Additional tools: Classifications of vendors LIMS vendors by industry LIMS features

Key cloud- or SaaS-based laboratory informatics software Listed below are key commercial and open-source laboratory informatics software offerings listed in the wiki that utilize the cloud or software as a service (SaaS) model. "Key" indicates vendor's (or software's) LIMSwiki page has a cited (from a publicly-available source) price list. Those with demonstration videos are given higher preference; items ranked by number of videos. 1. LabKey Server via LabKey Corporation 2. webLIMS and Health Cloud Hub via LabLynx, Inc. 3. Bika LIMS via Bika Lab Systems (Pty) Ltd. 4. Scilligence ELN via Scilligence Corporation 5. LabArchives via LabArchives, LLC 6. Contur ELN/iLabber via Accelrys, Inc. 7. eCAT via Research Innovations Limited 8. labfolder via labfolder GmbH 9. Labguru via BioData Inc. 10. iPad ELN via Cognium Systems SA 11. LABVANTAGE via LABVANTAGE Solutions, Inc. 12. NevisLIMS via Instrumentos Científicos SA 13. NoteBookMaker via NoteBookMaker, LLC 14. Sysment Notebook via Sysment Kft. 15. BioRails DM via The Edge Software Consultancy Ltd. 16. LABTrack via LABTrack, LLC 17. CloudLIMS via CloudLIMS.com, LLC 18. SQUISH via Information Management Services, Inc. 19. Docollab via SparkLix Bio IT Corp. 20. Datacloud via SPLhost, Inc. 21. hivebench via shazino SAS

Open-source software Looking for open-source software solutions to make your lab or office more efficient? Try these locations: All open-source software options, by category Open-source ELN software Open-source LIMS software Open-source LIS software Additional LIMSwiki resources We've created several resources for users of the wiki over the years, including: LIMSwiki informatics resource portal LIMSforum and LIMS/LI posts Laboratory, Scientific, and Health Informatics Buyer's Guide NEW: Limspec NEW: LIMS and laboratory informatics questionnaire

Open-source laboratory informatics software Listed below are some of the most active and supported open-source laboratory informatics software projects with articles in the wiki, as of May 2014. Go here for all listed open-source laboratory informatics projects. Bika LIMS via Bika Lab Systems LabKey Server via LabKey Corporation Galaxy via Penn State & Emory University LabTrove via University of Southampton GNomEx via Huntsman Cancer Institute SeqWare via its dev team OSCAR via OSCAR EMR OpenClinica via OpenClinica, LLC eLabFTW via its developer Nicolas CARPi open enventory via Technische Universität Kaiserslautern OpenMRS via its dev team eln via its developer Daniel Wagenaar openCDMS via University of Manchester GNU Health via GNU Solidario openBIS via Center for Information Science and Databases - ETHZ OpenEMR via its dev team MISO via The Genome Analysis Centre OpenELIS via Univ. of Iowa and Univ. of Washington OpenChrom via its dev team Indigo ELN via GGA Software Services, LLC caTissue Plus via Krishagni Solutions ms-lims via Ghent University and VIB LabWiki via PHP Labware LabStoRe via PHP Labware

Additional information Latest news March 06, 2023: LIMSwiki has yet another guide for you, this time involving the ISO/IEC 17025 standard. The first edition of the LIMS Selection Guide for ISO/IEC 17025 Laboratories is now live for your perusal. This guide looks at the ISO/IEC 17025-certified laboratory, what roles it plays in society, the efforts it must go to remain compliant, and the benefits is discovers by doing so. It also examines the unique laboratory informatics system requirements for these labs, turning to LIMSpec for clues as to what those systems need to do to help such labs better comply to the standard. Additional resources and request for information guidance is also provided. Enjoy! Shawn Douglas (talk) 16:30, 6 March 2023 (UTC)   January 11, 2023: First, happy 2023 to you all! With a new year comes a new guide for LIMSwiki, keying in on some of that food and beverage content described in December 2022. Just released is the LIMS Selection Guide for Food Safety and Quality. Similar in vein to the Laboratory Informatics Buyer's Guide for Medical Diagnostics and Research released this time last year, this new guide recognizes the important role the food and beverage laboratory plays in our society towards food and beverage safety and quality, as well as the increasing need for systems like the laboratory information management system (LIMS) to enhance the lab's safety and quality efforts. The guide examines what these labs do, what standards and regulations affect them, and the traits the lab's LIMS should have to best improve the lab's activities. It also provides helpful information about food and beverage LIMS acquisition, including a LIMS requirements specification and information on how to best put it to use. Hope you find it useful. Shawn Douglas (talk) 16:45, 11 January 2023 (UTC) — Read more archived news — Most popular pages This template is no longer being used on this wiki. — View all current most popular pages —