Scientific data management system
A scientific data management system (SDMS) is a piece or package of software that captures, catalogs, and archives data generated by laboratory instruments (HPLC, mass spectrometry) and applications (LIMS, analytical applications, electronic laboratory notebooks) in a compliant manner, serving platform-independent data to informatics applications and/or other consumers.
As with many other laboratory informatics tools, the lines between a LIMS, ELN, and an SDMS are at times blurred. However, there are some essential qualities that an SDMS owns that distinguishes it from other informatics systems:
1. While a LIMS has traditionally been built to handle structured, mostly homogeneous data, a SDMS (and systems like it) is built to handle unstructured, mostly heterogeneous data.[1]
2. A SDMS typically acts as a seamless "wrapper" for other data systems like LIMS and ELN in the laboratory.
3. A SDMS is best suited for data consolidation, knowledge management, and knowledge asset realization. [2]
Modern features of a SDMS
References
- ↑ "Considerations for Management of Laboratory Data". Scientific Computing. 15 September 2009. http://www.scientificcomputing.com/considerations-for-management.aspx. Retrieved 2011-05-04.
- ↑ Wood, Simon (2007). "Comprehensive Laboratory Informatics: A Multilayer Approach", pp. 3.
