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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 "OptiGUI DataCollector: A graphical user interface for automating the data collecting process in optical and photonics labs" OptiGUI DataCollector is a Python 3.8-based graphical user interface (GUI) that facilitates automated data collection in optics and photonics research and development equipment. It provides an intuitive and easy-to-use platform for controlling a wide range of optical instruments, including spectrometers and lasers. OptiGUI DataCollector is a flexible and modular framework that enables simple integration with different types of devices. It simplifies experimental workflow and reduces human error by automating parameter control, data acquisition, and analysis. OptiGUI DataCollector is currently focused on optical mode conversion utilizing fiber optic technologies ... (Full article...) Recently featured: Ten simple rules for managing laboratory information Hierarchical AI enables global interpretation of culture plates in the era of digital microbiology Critical analysis of the impact of AI on the patient–physician relationship: A multi-stakeholder qualitative study — 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 NEW - LIMSwiki publications: The Complete Guide to LIMS & Lab Informatics

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. Laucks Technical Services, LLC 30. STARLIMS Corporation 31. ChemBytes 32. FORMULATOR Software, LLC 33. Mountain States Consulting, LLC 34. shazino SAS 35. SLCLAB Informática SL 36. SparkLix Bio IT Corp. 37. SPLhost, Inc. 38. Summit Research Services 39. System Approach, Ltd. 40. 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. LabKey Server via LabKey Corporation 2. webLIMS and Health Cloud Hub via LabLynx, Inc. 3. Bika LIMS via Bika Lab Systems (Pty) Ltd. 4. Scilligence ELN via Scilligence Corporation 5. LabArchives via LabArchives, LLC 6. Contur ELN/iLabber via Accelrys, Inc. 7. eCAT via Research Innovations Limited 8. labfolder via labfolder GmbH 9. Labguru via BioData Inc. 10. iPad ELN via Cognium Systems SA 11. LABVANTAGE via LABVANTAGE Solutions, Inc. 12. NevisLIMS via Instrumentos Científicos SA 13. NoteBookMaker via NoteBookMaker, LLC 14. Sysment Notebook via Sysment Kft. 15. BioRails DM via The Edge Software Consultancy Ltd. 16. LABTrack via LABTrack, LLC 17. CloudLIMS via CloudLIMS.com, LLC 18. SQUISH via Information Management Services, Inc. 19. Docollab via SparkLix Bio IT Corp. 20. Datacloud via SPLhost, Inc. 21. 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 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 — Most popular pages This template is no longer being used on this wiki. — View all current most popular pages —