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Welcome to LIMSwiki.org, the laboratory, health, and science informatics encyclopedia. Users have contributed: 3,164 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.

Get started Need help getting started with LIMSwiki? Here are some excellent starting points: LIMSwiki mission Glossary of all pages Request a LIMSwiki account MediaWiki editing help: Wikitext formatting examples LIMSwiki naming conventions for article titles Current LIMSwiki help documentation MediaWiki user's guide

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. 1. LabLynx, Inc. 2. Two Fold Software Limited 3. BioData Inc. 4. eBioSys Pty. Ltd. 5. AgileBio 6. Biomatters Ltd. 7. LABVANTAGE Solutions, Inc. 8. Thermo Scientific 9. Sibio SAS 10. The Edge Software Consultancy Ltd. 11. Autoscribe Ltd. 12. Blaze Systems Corporation 13. LabWare, Inc. 14. STARLIMS Corporation 15. Bridge-Soft, LLC 16. Bytewize AB 17. ChemWare, Inc. 18. Dynamic Databases, LLC 19. Lemm Tech Enterprises, Inc. 20. Mountain States Consulting, LLC 21. PerkinElmer Inc. 22. RURO Inc. 23. Summit Research Services 24. System Approach, Ltd. 25. YourLabData.com

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 information management system Laboratory information system Scientific data management system Compliance topics: All current regulatory articles 21 CFR Part 11 HIPAA ISO/IEC 17025

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 February 2013. 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 Indigo ELN via GGA Software Services, LLC LabTrove via University of Southampton openBIS via Center for Information Science and Databases - ETHZ openCDMS via University of Manchester OpenMRS via its dev team OpenELIS via Univ. of Iowa and Univ. of Washington GNomEx via Huntsman Cancer Institute SeqWare via its dev team open enventory via Technische Universität Kaiserslautern OpenClinica via OpenClinica, LLC OpenChrom via its dev team GNU Health via GNU Solidario ms-lims via Ghent University and VIB MISO via The Genome Analysis Centre OpenEMR via its dev team LabWiki via PHP Labware LabStoRe via PHP Labware Caisis via Caisis Foundation

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 vendors of laboratory equipment and software 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 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. webLIMS via LabLynx, Inc. 2. Bika LIMS via Bika Lab Systems (Pty) Ltd. 3. Scilligence ELN via Scilligence Corporation 4. LabArchives via LabArchives, LLC 5. Contur ELN/iLabber via Accelrys, Inc. 6. eCAT via Research Innovations Limited 7. Labguru via BioData Inc. 8. iPad ELN via Cognium Systems SA 9. LABVANTAGE via LABVANTAGE Solutions, Inc. 10. NoteBookMaker via NoteBookMaker, LLC 11. BioRails DM via The Edge Software Consultancy Ltd. 12. LABTrack via LABTrack, LLC 13. SparkLix via SparkLix Bio IT Corp. 14. Datacloud via SPLhost, Inc. 15. O3 Lims via Bytewize AB 16. O3 LimsXpress via Bytewize AB 17. SQUISH via Information Management Services, Inc.

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 information Latest news October 26, 2012: Quality citations lend reputability to LIMSwiki content and confidence to readers. For many citations are a necessary evil. I try not to think of them that way. Rather, citations give the written content — whether it's about a LIMS vendor, an open-source software solution, or a piece of laboratory equipment — credibility, and they give readers more confidence in what they're reading. That said, I want to 1. remind users of the LIMSwiki citation guidelines and 2. offer a little help. I know for beginner wiki editors citations can be daunting. If after reading the guidelines you still need a little help, write a brief message on my talk page, and I'll help how I can. We might even be able to organize an online tutorial together. Shawn Douglas 13:53, 26 October 2012 (EDT) April 10, 2012: The front page has received a facelift. A major complaint of the wiki so far has been that it's not terribly clear where to find the most usable material on the wiki at the moment. We've been so concerned with the content that other aspects have been taken for granted. Hopefully this front page overhaul makes it a bit easier to find the juiciest tidbits. As new material continues to be added, we'll be vigilant and update the front page as necessary. Shawn Douglas 20:24, 10 April 2012 (EDT) — Read more archived news — Most popular pages This template is no longer being used on this wiki. — View all current most popular pages —