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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? Have no fear! Here are some excellent starting points:   LIMSwiki mission LIMSwiki community portal LIMSwiki maintenance portal Request a LIMSwiki account LIMSwiki and MediaWiki help: LIMSwiki help documentation LIMSwiki training guides Wikitext formatting help and examples LIMSwiki naming conventions for article titles MediaWiki user's guide

Featured article of the week A public health laboratory is a laboratory that serves regional, national, or in some cases global communities by providing clinical diagnostic testing, environmental testing, disease diagnosis and evaluation, emergency response support, applied research, regulation and standards recommendations, laboratory training, and other essential services to the communities they serve. A public health laboratory is unlike the average commercial laboratory as it functions as a core part of a broad public health system. The public health laboratory must typically meet more stringent requirements, including adhering to the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) (for labs in the United States) as well as regulations laid out by the departments, agencies, and other regulatory bodies of local, state, and/or national governments. Finally, the private medical laboratory focuses on tests that diagnose the diseases of individuals, while the functions of the public health laboratory serve entire populations. On a global level, the public health laboratory is influenced and supported by the the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL). In the U.S. they are influenced, overseen, and/or regulated by several federal agencies. (Full article...)

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 ISO/IEC 17025

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. Biomatters Ltd. 9. eBioSys Pty. Ltd. 10. AgileBio 11. Cognium Systems SA 12. LABVANTAGE Solutions, Inc. 13. Thermo Scientific 14. Agilent Technologies, Inc. 15. Autoscribe Ltd. 16. Instrumentos Científicos SA 17. BiochemLab Solutions 18. NoteBookMaker, LLC 19. Sysment Kft. 20. LABTrack, LLC 21. The Edge Software Consultancy Ltd. 22. Blaze Systems Corporation 23. ChemWare, Inc. 24. Dynamic Databases, LLC 25. EZQuant Ltd. 26. LabWare, Inc. 27. SparkLix Bio IT Corp. 28. STARLIMS Corporation 29. ChemBytes 30. FORMULATOR Software, LLC 31. Mountain States Consulting, LLC 32. shazino SAS 33. SLCLAB Informática SL 34. SPLhost, Inc. 35. Summit Research Services 36. System Approach, Ltd.

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 NEW: LIMS and laboratory informatics questionnaire

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. 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. NevisLIMS via Instrumentos Científicos SA 11. NoteBookMaker via NoteBookMaker, LLC 12. Sysment Notebook via Sysment Kft. 13. BioRails DM via The Edge Software Consultancy Ltd. 14. LABTrack via LABTrack, LLC 15. SparkLix via SparkLix Bio IT Corp. 16. Datacloud via SPLhost, Inc. 17. hivebench via shazino SAS 18. O3 Lims via Bytewize AB 19. O3 LimsXpress via Bytewize AB 20. 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 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 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 OSCAR via OSCAR EMR OpenMRS via its dev team OpenELIS via Univ. of Iowa and Univ. of Washington GNomEx via Huntsman Cancer Institute   SeqWare via its dev team caTissue Plus via Krishagni Solutions 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

Additional information Latest news November 1, 2013: We have a couple of brief updates to give you regarding the wiki. First, we've expanded the help section of the wiki by updating a few existing help pages and adding a few new ones. Additionally, we've added a new collection of MediaWiki training guides to 1. help users new to MediaWiki more rapidly make meaningful edits and 2. to further encourage new users to make wiki contributions. We hope you find the training guides and exercises useful. Second, we've upgraded to MediaWiki 1.21.2, added new extensions, and will be moving the content to what will hopefully be a more rapid server. All these upgrades should translate to a more functional and inviting informatics wiki. Happy wiki-ing! Shawn Douglas (talk) 13:42, 1 November 2013 (EDT) September 04, 2013: After a brief hiatus this summer, we're back in business here on the wiki. As always, maintenance and updates to existing material remain vital. In this rapidly changing world of information technology, advances in products as well as closures by vendors happen frequently. With such a small group of regulars dedicated to maintaining this wiki, there's bound to be information that is out-of-date or inaccurate. We continue our call out for a few good editors to lend a hand with research and updates to our content, whether it be vendor updates or contributions to technical articles. For example, there are many branches of informatics, but little is written about them still. Please consider requesting a LIMSwiki account if you feel you can contribute neutral, well-researched content to the wiki. And 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. And many thanks to our contributors! Shawn Douglas 15:17, 4 September 2013 (EDT) — Read more archived news — Most popular pages This template is no longer being used on this wiki. — View all current most popular pages —