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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.

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Featured article of the week An electronic health record (EHR) is an evolving concept, "defined as a longitudinal collection of electronic health information about individual patients and populations." It is a record in digital format that is theoretically capable of being shared across different health care settings. In some cases this sharing can occur by way of network-connected enterprise-wide information systems and other information networks or exchanges. EHRs may include a range of data, including demographics, medical history, medication and allergies, immunization status, laboratory test results, radiology images, vital signs, personal stats like age and weight, and billing information. The differences between an EHR and an electronic medical record (EMR) differ from entity to entity and from country to country. For example, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) notes that despite the interchanging of the terms "EMR" and "EHR," it considers them two separate entities: the EMR came first, used primarily by medical clinicians for diagnosis and treatment, while the EHR came into existence as a more holistic, inclusive collection of a patient's health data. (Full article...) Recently featured: Public health laboratory — See more archived featured articles —

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. labfolder GmbH 9. Biomatters Ltd. 10. eBioSys Pty. Ltd. 11. AgileBio 12. Cognium Systems SA 13. LABVANTAGE Solutions, Inc. 14. Thermo Scientific 15. Agilent Technologies, Inc. 16. Autoscribe Ltd. 17. Instrumentos Científicos SA 18. BiochemLab Solutions 19. NoteBookMaker, LLC 20. Sysment Kft. 21. LABTrack, LLC 22. The Edge Software Consultancy Ltd. 23. Blaze Systems Corporation 24. ChemWare, Inc. 25. CloudLIMS.com, LLC 26. Dynamic Databases, LLC 27. EZQuant Ltd. 28. LabWare, Inc. 29. SparkLix Bio IT Corp. 30. STARLIMS Corporation 31. ChemBytes 32. FORMULATOR Software, LLC 33. Mountain States Consulting, LLC 34. shazino SAS 35. SLCLAB Informática SL 36. SPLhost, Inc. 37. Summit Research Services 38. System Approach, Ltd. 39. TerraSystems

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

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. labfolder via labfolder GmbH 8. Labguru via BioData Inc. 9. iPad ELN via Cognium Systems SA 10. LABVANTAGE via LABVANTAGE Solutions, Inc. 11. NevisLIMS via Instrumentos Científicos SA 12. NoteBookMaker via NoteBookMaker, LLC 13. Sysment Notebook via Sysment Kft. 14. BioRails DM via The Edge Software Consultancy Ltd. 15. LABTrack via LABTrack, LLC 16. CloudLIMS via CloudLIMS.com, LLC 17. SparkLix via SparkLix Bio IT Corp. 18. SQUISH via Information Management Services, Inc. 19. Datacloud via SPLhost, Inc. 20. hivebench via shazino SAS

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 May 2014. 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 LabTrove via University of Southampton GNomEx via Huntsman Cancer Institute SeqWare via its dev team OSCAR via OSCAR EMR OpenClinica via OpenClinica, LLC eLabFTW via its developer Nicolas CARPi open enventory via Technische Universität Kaiserslautern OpenMRS via its dev team eln via its developer Daniel Wagenaar openCDMS via University of Manchester GNU Health via GNU Solidario openBIS via Center for Information Science and Databases - ETHZ OpenEMR via its dev team MISO via The Genome Analysis Centre OpenELIS via Univ. of Iowa and Univ. of Washington OpenChrom via its dev team Indigo ELN via GGA Software Services, LLC caTissue Plus via Krishagni Solutions ms-lims via Ghent University and VIB LabWiki via PHP Labware LabStoRe via PHP Labware

Additional information Latest news April 30, 2014: 180px I wanted to highlight some of the projects we've worked on over the past few years. I feel like as the wiki grows, some of the tools buried within it tend to get lost. First, I'd like to again mention the LIMSwiki informatics resource portal. This project was dedicated to collating as many useful online scientific and health informatics-related materials and research tools as possible. It includes links to books, magazines, journals, blogs, organizations, special-interest groups, government entities, academic programs, conferences, trade shows, research tools, job boards, and a whole lot more related to laboratory, health, and other types of informatics. I can't stress enough how extensive we've tried to make this collection of resources. We have other resources too that shouldn't go unnoticed: The Laboratory, Scientific, and Health Informatics Buyer's Guide: a guide to buying informatics systems, with a list of vendors who have public pricing LIMSWiki:LIMSforum and LIMS/LI forum posts: a collection of popular laboratory informatics discussions dating back to 2010 The LIMS and laboratory informatics questionnaire: a request for information (RFI) document to help users in buying an informatics system Limspec: a related but different tool for building a personalized collection of cataloging requirements and vendor questions Shawn Douglas (talk) 17:43, 30 April 2014 (EDT) 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) — Read more archived news — Most popular pages This template is no longer being used on this wiki. — View all current most popular pages —