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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 consider requesting an account.

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 laboratory informatics vendors What does it mean to be "key" for the purpose of this ranking? The criterion for a vendor being listed here is: the vendor's LIMSwiki page must have 1. a price list and 2. links to product demonstration videos. Order is based on number of videos.

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

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 CDMSE 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

Open-source software Looking for open-source software solutions to make your lab or office more efficient? Try these locations: Open-source software options Open-source LIMS software

Additional information Latest news 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) February 22, 2012: Thankfully data storage and analysis in the lab has gotten easier. Yes, this wiki is still alive! It's strange to think it's been almost a year since it was introduced. Since then those with the time to spare have added a wide variety of infrastructure and some content. It has been a slow process, however, and like any major wiki project, more knowledgeable and dedicated editors are needed. So what has been going on with the wiki? The initial focus was to get some of the major concepts like... Read more of this and other archived news... Most popular pages This template is no longer being used on this wiki. View all current most popular pages