Laboratory Information Management Software
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Laboratory Information Management Software (LIMS) is computer software that is used in the laboratory for the management of samples, laboratory users, instruments, standards and other laboratory functions such as invoicing, plate management, stability lims, work flow automation. A LIMS and a Laboratory Information System (LIS) perform similar functions. The primary difference is that LIMS are generally targeted toward environmental or commercial analysis, such as pharmaceutical or petrochemical, and LIS are targeted toward the clinical market (hospitals and other clinical labs).
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Life science LIMS
Impact of biotechnologies on LIMS
Biotechnologies have introduced a number of changes in the Life Science field. High Throughput spread from the limited field of drug candidate screening to gene screening, protein screening, etc. This make LIMS a new necessity, even in fundamental laboratories.
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Examples of existing LIMS:
Commercial
LABTrack - EKM Corporation (http://www.ekmco.com/)
BlazeLIMS - Blaze Systems Corp. (http://www.blazesystems.com/)
Horizon LIMS - ChemWare, Inc. (http://www.chemware.com/)
LabWare LIMS - LabWare, Inc. (http://www.labware.com/)
LABWORKS LIMS - PerkinElmer, Inc. (http://las.perkinelmer.com/)
LABlynx - LABlynx, Inc. (http://www.lablynx.com/)
Sapphire LIMS - LabVantage, Inc. (http://www.labvantage.com/)
StarLIMS - StarLIMS, Inc. (http://www.starlims.com/)
SampleManager, Nautilus, Watson, Galileo, LabManager - Thermo Electron Corp. (http://www.thermo.com/lims/)
SibioCLE - Sibio, SAS (http://www.sibio.net/)
Matrix LIMS - Autoscribe (http://www.autoscribe.co.uk/)
Open Source:
caLIMS (http://ncicbsupport.nci.nih.gov/sw/content/caLIMS.html)
Flow LIMS (http://bioinformatics.fccc.edu/software/OpenSource/flowLIMS/flowlims.shtml)
GnosisLIMS (http://www.gnosislims.org/wiki/tiki-index.php)
HalX (http://halx.genomics.eu.org/)
OpenLIMS (http://bioinformatics.org/project/?group_id=50)
LIMS Related Resources
LIMSource (http://LIMSource.com/)
Scientific Computing & Instrumentation (http://www.scimag.com/)
Scientific Computing & Instrumentation
The LIMS Mailing List (http://lims.taratec.com/)