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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 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 Using and citing the Internet Archive MediaWiki user's guide LIMSwiki maintenance portal

COVID-19 Laboratory Resources A few important resources concerning the COVID-19 disease—in particular relating to laboratory testing—have been added to LIMSwiki. This section collates those internal articles for your convenience. Additionally, a few key external links are also included here. Guides : COVID-19 Testing, Reporting, and Information Management in the Laboratory (Fall 2020 Edition, November 2020) Guidance documents and authorized in vitro diagnostic test kits ▪ Diagnostic testing for SARS-CoV-2: Interim guidance, 11 September 2020 (WHO) ▪ Laboratory biosafety guidance related to coronavirus disease (COVID-19): Interim guidance, 13 May 2020 (WHO) ▪ Policy for Coronavirus Disease-2019 Tests During the Public Health Emergency (Revised) (FDA) ▪ Interim Guidelines for Collecting, Handling, and Testing Clinical Specimens for COVID-19 (CDC) ▪ Frequently Asked Questions about Coronavirus (COVID-19) for Laboratories (CDC) ▪ Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Emergency Use Authorizations for Medical Devices (FDA) Relevant LIMSwiki articles ▪ COVID-19 (the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2) ▪ SARS-CoV-2 (the coronavirus strain responsible for COVID-19) ▪ Coronavirus (the virus family, of which SARS-CoV-2 is a member) ▪ COVID-19 testing ▪ Nucleic acid amplification test

Learn more Need to know more about laboratory and other types of informatics? Here is some suggested reading:   Informatics Chromatography data system Electronic laboratory notebook Laboratory execution system Laboratory information management system Laboratory information system Scientific data management system All regulatory articles LIMSwiki publications: Laboratory Information Systems Project Management: A Guidebook for International Implementations, care of APHL A Guide for Management: Successfully Applying Laboratory Systems to Your Organization's Work The Complete Guide to LIMS & Lab Informatics

LIMSwiki books Examples of books printed from Wikipedia A LIMSwiki book is a collection of LIMSwiki articles that can be easily saved to the wiki, rendered electronically in PDF, or ordered as a printed book. Need to know more about LIMSwiki books? Create a book - use the book creator User help – help with using the tool Advanced help – help with advanced functions FAQ – a FAQ regarding the tool Feedback – report and track bugs Bookshelf Browse all 71 LIMSwiki books.

Laboratory informatics software and products Are you looking for LIMS software? An electronic laboratory notebook? Or perhaps laboratory equipment? Try these suggestions: All active lab equipment and software vendors CDS vendors past and present ELN vendors past and present LIMS vendors past and present LIS vendors past and present SDMS vendors past and present Misc. informatics software vendors past and present Additional tools: Laboratory and scientific informatics consultants Key laboratory informatics vendors and software Inactive informatics software vendors Classifications of vendors LIMS vendors by industry

LIMSwiki journal articles Open-access articles becoming more common A LIMSwiki journal article is a selected open-access article relating to various fields of informatics, free to republish elsewhere with proper citation. You can browse the collection using the tools below. Also note that like other articles found on this wiki, journal articles can be added to LIMSwiki books. For a full listing of journals — open-access and otherwise — relating to laboratory informatics, bioinformatics, and other forms of informatics, please see LIMSWiki:Resources/Journals. Journal articles Browse all 460 journal articles. All 27 journal articles about informatics in general · All 101 journal articles about health informatics

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 Open-source SDMS software

Additional LIMSwiki resources We've created several resources for users of the wiki over the years, including the LIMSwiki informatics resource portal, which contains among other tools: Magazines, journals, and blogs Organizations, not-for-profits, and special interest groups Conferences and trade shows Consultants Knowledge base, research, and reference Popular in-house guides: : COVID-19 Testing, Reporting, and Information Management in the Laboratory : Past, Present, and Future of Cannabis Laboratory Testing and Regulation in the United States, Third Edition LIMSpec 2019 R1, a laboratory informatics specification guide The Laboratories of Our Lives: Labs, Labs Everywhere! The Practical Guide to the U.S. Physician Office Laboratory Laboratory, Scientific, and Health Informatics Buyer's Guide

Additional information Latest news June 1, 2024: It's been a while. How about a few updates? First, today you'll notice a bit of a refresh of the front page. It was becoming increasingly obvious that for a wiki that's been around for well over a decade, finding something across the various namespaces (i.e., areas) still wasn't easy. A plethora of links were pasted across the front page, but that wasn't enough. This front page update is the first of several steps towards making knowledge and information a bit more findable on the wiki (there's always more that can be done). We now have a mini search portal for our four larger non-encyclopedic areas: guides and white papers, Q&A articles, journal articles, and books. This not only highlights these four areas more prominently but also gives users several ways to search and navigate the content in those areas. Second, a difficult decision was made to scale back vendor content. To the point prior about highlighting this wiki's encyclopedic and non-encyclopedic knowledge repository, it was time to move the vendors from the encyclopedic space to their own namespace, the Vendor: namespace. While vendor content is still highly useful to LIMSWiki users, its no longer as front-facing. Additionally, maintaining feature tables for each vendor was increasingly labor-intensive. As such, feature tables were removed, recognizing at the same time the onus remains fully on vendors to be more transparent about making public the full functionality of their offerings so potential buyers can make more informed decisions. Vendor records still retain their history, highlight offerings (i.e., LIMS, LIS, ELN, SDMS, and CDS), industries served, and other original information. Shawn Douglas (talk) 19:06, 1 June 2024 (UTC) November 20, 2023: Are you studying some sort of laboratory-based science in university? How well do your classes address laboratory informatics topics, particularly in the scope of industrial labs and how they operate outside of academia? If you find the discussion lacking, then his guide by industry veteran Joe Liscouski will be worth a look. In his guide A Science Student's Guide to Laboratory Informatics, Liscouski presents "an annotated map of the laboratory portion of a technological world, identifying critical points of interest and how they relate to one another, while making recommendations for the reader to learn more." Hope you find it useful! Shawn Douglas (talk) 18:48, 20 November 2023 (UTC) — Read more archived news —