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'''LIMSwiki''' is a [[MediaWiki]]-based platform dedicated to the scientific community, featuring organized, cited, up-to-date content regarding all aspects of [[laboratory informatics]], [[bioinformatics]], [[health informatics]], and other types of [[informatics]], as well as other technological, regulatory, and standardization topics relating to the laboratory. LIMSwiki also strives to maintain relevant knowledge about a variety of laboratory systems, including commercial and [[:Category:Open-source software|open-source]] software likely to be used in a [[laboratory]] setting. This includes many of the known [[:Category:Vendors|vendors]] of such software.</div>
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Need help getting started with LIMSwiki? Have no fear! Here are some excellent starting points:<br />&nbsp;<br />
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If you're new to editing a wiki, the best place to start learning editing syntax is the [[Help:Contents|Basic Text Formatting]] help file. <br>&nbsp;<br>Below are some links to introduce you to LIMS Wiki:
* [[LIMS Wiki mission|LIMS Wiki Mission]]
* [[Add and Change Requests]]
* [[Special:AllPages|Glossary of All Pages]]
* [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents_User's_Guide A Wiki User's Guide]
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For future reference, article titles with words should only have the first word capitalized unless there's a proper name included.


Also, plurals are frowned upon. For example the proposed title "Interface Groups" should be "Interface group" to meet naming conventions. I'm occasionally guilty of forgetting the naming conventions for wiki article titles also, so don't feel bad. Here are the naming conventions, listed from Wikipedia:
*[[:Category:LIMSwiki help documentation|LIMSwiki help documentation]]
*[[Help:MediaWiki basics|LIMSwiki training guides]]
*[[Help:Formatting|Wikitext formatting help and examples]]
*[[Main_Page/news#April_18.2C_2011:|LIMSwiki naming conventions for article titles]]
*[[Help:Using the Internet Archive|Using and citing the Internet Archive]]
*[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Contents_User's_Guide MediaWiki user's guide]


* '''Use lower case, except for proper names:''' The initial letter of a title is almost always capitalized; subsequent words in a title are not, unless they are part of a proper name, and so  would be capitalized in running text; when this is done, the title will be simple to link to in other articles: ''Northwestern University'' offers more graduate work than a typical ''liberal arts college''. For initial lower case letters, as in eBay, see the technical restrictions page. See also the special rules on capitalization in bird naming.
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* '''To italicize a title, add the template <nowiki>{{italic title}}</nowiki> near the top of the article:''' Use of italics should conform to [[WP:ITALICS]].
* '''Use the singular form:''' Article titles are generally singular in form, e.g. Horse, not Horses. Exceptions include nouns that are always in a plural form in English (e.g. scissors or trousers) and the names of classes of objects (e.g. Arabic numerals or Bantu languages).
* '''Avoid abbreviations:''' Abbreviations and acronyms are generally avoided unless the subject is almost exclusively known by its abbreviation (e.g. NATO and Laser). The abbreviation ''UK'', for United Kingdom, is acceptable for use in disambiguation.  It is also unnecessary to include an acronym in addition to the name in a title.
* '''Avoid definite and indefinite articles:''' Do not place definite or indefinite articles (''the'', ''a'' and ''an'') at the beginning of titles unless they are part of a proper name (e.g. ''The Old Man and the Sea'') or will otherwise change the meaning (e.g. The Crown).
* '''Use nouns:''' Titles should be nouns or noun phrases. Adjective and verb forms (e.g. democratic, integrate) should redirect to articles titled with the corresponding noun (Democracy]], Integration), although sometimes they will be disambiguation pages, as at Organic. Sometimes the noun corresponding to a verb will be the gerund (''-ing'' form), as in Swimming.
* '''Do not enclose titles in quotes:''' Article titles which are quotes (or song titles, etc.) are not enclosed in quotation marks (e.g. ''To be, or not to be'' is the article title, while [["To be, or not to be"]] is a redirect to that article).
*'''Do not use titles suggesting that one article forms part of another:''' Even if an article is considered subsidiary to another (as where summary style is used), it should be named independently. For example, an article on transportation in Azerbaijan should not be given a name like "Azerbaijan/Transportation" or "Azerbaijan&nbsp;(transportation)" – use Transportation in Azerbaijan. (This does not always apply in non-article namespaces: see [[Help:Subpage]].)


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Outside the wiki's [[LIMSWiki:Glossary|encyclopedic content]], more than a decade's worth of guides and white papers, question and answer (Q&A) articles, journal articles, and books can be found. Use the search portals and links below to search through and navigate this extensive content. You may also find links to this wiki's more popular guides in the left-hand navigation of the site.<br />
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Are you looking for [[Laboratory information management system|LIMS]] software? An [[electronic laboratory notebook|ELN]]? Former vendors? Try these suggestions:<br /><br />
 
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*[[Vendor:LIS vendor|Active LIS vendors]]
*[[Vendor:ELN vendor|Active ELN vendors]]
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Additional tools:
*[[:Category:LIMS vendors by industry|LIMS vendors by industry]]
*[[:Category:LIS vendors by industry|LIS vendors by industry]]
*[[:Category:ELN vendors by industry|ELN vendors by industry]]
*[[Vendor:Key laboratory informatics vendors and software|Laboratory informatics vendors w/ public pricing]]
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Looking for open-source software solutions to make your lab or office more efficient? Try these starting points:
 
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*[[:Category:Open-source software|All open-source software options, by category]]
*[[:Category:Laboratory information management systems (open source)|Open-source LIMS software]]
*[[:Category:Laboratory information systems (open source)|Open-source LIS software]]
*[[:Category:Electronic laboratory notebooks (open source)|Open-source ELN software]]
*[[:Category:Scientific data management systems (open source)|Open-source SDMS software]]
*[[:Category:Enterprise management software (open source)|Open-source enterprise management software]]
*[[:Category:Reporting software (open source)|Open-source reporting software]]
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We've created several resources for users of the wiki over the years, including the [[LIMSWiki:Resources|LIMSwiki informatics resource portal]], which contains among other tools:
 
#[[LIMSWiki:Resources#Magazines, journals, and blogs|Magazines, journals, and blogs]]
#[[LIMSWiki:Resources#Organizations, not-for-profits, and special interest groups|Organizations, not-for-profits, and special interest groups]]
#[[LIMSWiki:Resources#Conferences and trade shows|Conferences and trade shows]]
#[[LIMSWiki:Resources/Consultants|Consultants]]
#[[LIMSWiki:Resources#Knowledge base, research, and reference|Knowledge base, research, and reference]]
#[[LIMSWiki:Resources#Educational programs, training, and certifications|Educational programs, training, and certifications]]
 
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Welcome to LIMSwiki.org, the laboratory, health, and science informatics encyclopedia and knowledge repository.
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LIMSwiki is a MediaWiki-based platform dedicated to the scientific community, featuring organized, cited, up-to-date content regarding all aspects of laboratory informatics, bioinformatics, health informatics, and other types of informatics, as well as other technological, regulatory, and standardization topics relating to the laboratory. LIMSwiki also strives to maintain relevant knowledge about a variety of laboratory systems, including commercial and open-source software likely to be used in a laboratory setting. This includes many of the known vendors of such software.


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Outside the wiki's encyclopedic content, more than a decade's worth of guides and white papers, question and answer (Q&A) articles, journal articles, and books can be found. Use the search portals and links below to search through and navigate this extensive content. You may also find links to this wiki's more popular guides in the left-hand navigation of the site.


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A LIMSwiki guide or white paper is a topical, cited work researched, written, and edited to meet a certain standard of rigor. The topics of these guides and white papers have been chosen over the years to address both contemporary and long-time themes in laboratory and scientific informatics, as well as technologically adjacent themes like cloud computing and cybersecurity. (Note that in the LII: namespace where these are found, once can also find other "launch" pages for material such as recorded webinars, EdX courses, and other industry works.)
 
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LIMS Q&A articles

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A LIMSwiki Q&A article is a brief topical article that is researched, written, and edited to answer a specific question, with necessary citations. The questions asked in these articles usually relate to specific industries that depend on laboratories, the laboratory informatics applications used in those industries, or some other laboratory/informatics-adjacent topic such as ISO/IEC 17025. A loose limit of 1,200 to 1,400 words is strived for, but sometimes they may go significantly longer in order to best answer the question.
 
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Journal articles

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A LIMSwiki journal article is a selected open-access article relating to various fields of informatics, laboratory management, and data management, free to republish elsewhere with proper citation. You can browse the collection using the tools below. (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.)
 
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Books

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A LIMSwiki book is a special rendered collection of articles across various namespaces in LIMSwiki. It may come in the form of a curated list of encyclopedic articles on a given topic, a special collection of journal articles in the Journal: namespace, or it may be a collection of all the pages of a given white paper or guide in the LII: namespace (which can then be exported to other sites, like LIMSforum).
 
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June 1, 2024:

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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:

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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)