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Welcome to LIMSwiki.org, the laboratory, health, and science informatics encyclopedia.

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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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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. Biomatters Ltd.
9. eBioSys Pty. Ltd.
10. AgileBio
11. Cognium Systems SA
12. LABVANTAGE Solutions, Inc.
13. Thermo Scientific

14. Agilent Technologies, Inc. 15. Autoscribe Ltd.
16. Instrumentos Científicos SA
17. BiochemLab Solutions
18. NoteBookMaker, LLC
19. Sysment Kft.
20. LABTrack, LLC
21. The Edge Software Consultancy Ltd.
22. Blaze Systems Corporation
23. ChemWare, Inc.
24. Dynamic Databases, LLC
25. EZQuant Ltd.
26. LabWare, Inc.

27. SparkLix Bio IT Corp.
28. STARLIMS Corporation
29. ChemBytes
30. FORMULATOR Software, LLC
31. Lemm Tech Enterprises, Inc.
32. Mountain States Consulting, LLC
33. shazino SAS
34. SLCLAB Informática SL
35. SPLhost, Inc.
36. Summit Research Services
37. System Approach, Ltd.
38. YourLabData.com

Laboratory informatics software and products

Are you looking for LIMS software? An electronic laboratory notebook? Or perhaps laboratory equipment? Try these suggestions:

Additional tools:

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 February 2013. 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
Indigo ELN via GGA Software Services, LLC
LabTrove via University of Southampton
openBIS via Center for Information Science and Databases - ETHZ
openCDMS via University of Manchester
OSCAR via OSCAR EMR
OpenMRS via its dev team
OpenELIS via Univ. of Iowa and Univ. of Washington
GNomEx via Huntsman Cancer Institute

SeqWare via its dev team
caTissue Plus via Krishagni Solutions
open enventory via Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
OpenClinica via OpenClinica, LLC
OpenChrom via its dev team
GNU Health via GNU Solidario
ms-lims via Ghent University and VIB
MISO via The Genome Analysis Centre
OpenEMR via its dev team
LabWiki via PHP Labware
LabStoRe via PHP Labware
Caisis via Caisis Foundation

Learn more

Need to know more about laboratory and other types of informatics? Here is some suggested reading:

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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. Labguru via BioData Inc.
8. iPad ELN via Cognium Systems SA
9. LABVANTAGE via LABVANTAGE Solutions, Inc.
10. NevisLIMS via Instrumentos Científicos SA

11. NoteBookMaker via NoteBookMaker, LLC
12. Sysment Notebook via Sysment Kft.
13. BioRails DM via The Edge Software Consultancy Ltd.
14. LABTrack via LABTrack, LLC
15. SparkLix via SparkLix Bio IT Corp.
16. Datacloud via SPLhost, Inc.
17. hivebench via shazino SAS
18. O3 Lims via Bytewize AB
19. O3 LimsXpress via Bytewize AB
20. SQUISH via Information Management Services, Inc.

Open-source software

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

Additional information

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)

September 04, 2013:

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After a brief hiatus this summer, we're back in business here on the wiki. As always, maintenance and updates to existing material remain vital. In this rapidly changing world of information technology, advances in products as well as closures by vendors happen frequently. With such a small group of regulars dedicated to maintaining this wiki, there's bound to be information that is out-of-date or inaccurate. We continue our call out for a few good editors to lend a hand with research and updates to our content, whether it be vendor updates or contributions to technical articles. For example, there are many branches of informatics, but little is written about them still.

Please consider requesting a LIMSwiki account if you feel you can contribute neutral, well-researched content to the wiki. And If after reading the guidelines you still need a little help, write a brief message on my talk page, and I'll help how I can. We might even be able to organize an online tutorial together. And many thanks to our contributors!

Shawn Douglas 15:17, 4 September 2013 (EDT)

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