Vendor:LabKey Corporation

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LabKey Corporation
Type Corporation
Industry Laboratory informatics
Headquarters 617 Eastlake Ave. East, Suite #400
Seattle, Washington 98109, U.S.
Area served Worldwide
Products LabKey Server
Website LabKey.com

LabKey Corporation (LabKey Software)[1] partners with biomedical research organizations to develop custom software solutions. These solutions enable scientists to integrate, analyze, and securely share complex research information, helping them broaden their collaborations and gain insight across data silos.

LabKey solutions are built on the LabKey Server open source platform,so new users leverage more than a decade of past investment in the system.[2] [3] Taking an open source approach multiplies the benefits of funders’ contributions for the scientific community; improvements to LabKey Server become freely available to all users. [2]

LabKey Software originated at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center (FHCRC) and has offices in Seattle, Washington and San Diego, CA[3]. Like the majority of open-source businesses, LabKey Software derives its income from support, customization and other services.

History

The open source project that became LabKey Server began in a proteomics lab at the FHCRC in late 2003.[3] In January 2005, the project's founders collaborated with the FHCRC to incorporate LabKey Software (formally "LabKey Corporation") in order to make support and extension services for the platform more easily accessible to groups beyond the FHCRC.[3][4]

In 2011, LabKey Sofware began holding the annual LabKey User Conference to help members of the LabKey Server user community "share their experiences, learn from each other, and apply new knowledge to their scientific data management challenges."[5]

As of mid-2014, over 100 installations of LabKey Server support research organizations all over the world.[6] [7] Many of these groups collaborate with LabKey Software to enhance their data management tools and processes, including the FHCRC, the HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN), the Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery (CAVD), NWBioTrust, the Human Immunology Project Consortium (HIPC), the International Center of Excellence in Malaria Research (ICEMR) at the University of Washington, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) Network for Pancreatic Organ Donors (nPOD), and the Immune Tolerance Network (ITN). [5] [7] [8] [9]

In July 2014, the National Academies of Science recognized the ITN's installation of LabKey Server (ITN TrialShare) for exceptional innovation in research data management. ITN TrialShare won the Board on Research and Data and Information contest for the most outstanding model of "Using Data for the Public Good". [10] [11]

Technology

LabKey Server is an open-source laboratory information management system (LIMS) "that helps scientists organize, analyze, and share biomedical research data."[12] It can be downloaded and installed on your own or be hosted as a SaaS offering by LabKey Software.[13]

For more information on LabKey Server, please see the LabKey Server LIMSwiki page, or the LabKey Server site.

Services and Pricing

LabKey Software offers a range of professional services, including planning, support, hosting, customization and extension of the open source platform.

LabKey Service Plans include: "(1) Regular teleconferences and pro-active support (2) Planning and project management (3) Training for users and administrators (4) Assistance with installation, configuration and upgrades." [14][15] 2014 Service Plan prices start at $30K/year.[14] Plans are tailored to the needs of each group.

Further public pricing of LabKey services is not available at this time.

References

  1. ↑ "LabKey Software". http://www.labkey.com. Retrieved 12 August 2014. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "LabKey Server". LabKey Software Foundation. https://www.labkey.org/project/home/Documentation/begin.view?. Retrieved 12 August 2014. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "History". LabKey Software. http://www.labkey.com/company/history. Retrieved 12 August 2014. 
  4. ↑ Berg, Barbara (17 March 2005). "'Wizards' of computational science". Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. http://www.fhcrc.org/content/public/en/news/center-news/2005/03/wizards-computational-science.html. Retrieved 20 April 2012. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "LabKey User Conference". LabKey Software. http://www.labkey.com/conference. Retrieved 12 August 2014. 
  6. ↑ "LabKey Server Users". LabKey Software Foundation. https://www.labkey.org/wiki/home/Documentation/page.view?name=labkeyServerUsers. Retrieved 12 August 2014. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Igra, Mark; Nelson, Elizabeth K.; Britt Piehler; Josh Eckels; Matthew Bellew; Peter Hussey; Adam Rauch (2014). "LabKey Server: An Open Source Platform for Large-Scale, Translational Research". American Medical Informatics Association Clinical Research Informatics (AMIA/CRI) Summit. http://www.labkey.com/resources/presentations/LabKey_Server_Abstract_AMIA_2014.pdf. 
  8. ↑ "LabKey Software News". LabKey Software Foundation. https://www.labkey.com/news. Retrieved 12 August 2014. 
  9. ↑ Nelson, Elizabeth K.; Britt Piehler; Josh Eckels; Adam Rauch; Matthew Bellew; Peter Hussey; Sarah Ramsay; Cory Nathe; Karl Lum; Kevin Krouse; David Stearns; Brian Connolly; Tom Skillman; Mark Igra (2011). "LabKey Server: An open source platform for scientific data integration, analysis and collaboration". BMC Bioinformatics 12 (71). doi:10.1186/1471-2105-12-71. http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2105/12/71. 
  10. ↑ "ITN TrialShare wins National Academy of Sciences Challenge". LabKey Software. http://labkey.com/news/news-releases/15072014-366. Retrieved 12 August 2014. 
  11. ↑ "Immune Tolerance Network’s (ITN) TrialShare Wins National Academies Board on Research Data and Information Challenge". The Immune Tolerance Network. http://www.immunetolerance.org/news/2014/07/immune-tolerance-network%E2%80%99s-itn-trialshare-wins-national-academies-board-research-data-a. Retrieved 12 August 2014. 
  12. ↑
  13. ↑ "Try LabKey Server". LabKey Software. https://labkey.com/forms/try-labkey-server. Retrieved 28 July 2014. 
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 "LabKey Software Services". LabKey Software. https://labkey.com/services. Retrieved 12 August 2014. 
  15. ↑ "2014 LabKey Software Service Plans". LabKey Software. http://www.labkey.com/resources/service-plans/LabKeyServicePlans2014.pdf. Retrieved 12 August 2014. 
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