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Welcome to LIMSwiki.org, the laboratory, health, and science informatics encyclopedia. Users have contributed: 1,657 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.

Get started Need help getting started with LIMSwiki? Have no fear! Here are some excellent starting points:   LIMSwiki mission Request a LIMSwiki account LIMSwiki and MediaWiki help: LIMSwiki help documentation LIMSwiki training guides Wikitext formatting help and examples LIMSwiki naming conventions for article titles Using and citing the Internet Archive MediaWiki user's guide ON THE WIKI: Comprehensive Guide to Developing and Implementing a Cybersecurity Plan COVID-19 Testing, Reporting, and Information Management in the Laboratory Past, Present, and Future of Cannabis Laboratory Testing and Regulation in the United States, Third Edition

Featured article of the week "Wrangling environmental exposure data: Guidance for getting the best information from your laboratory measurements" Environmental health and exposure researchers can improve the quality and interpretation of their chemical measurement data, avoid spurious results, and improve analytical protocols for new chemicals by closely examining lab and field quality control (QC) data. Reporting QC data along with chemical measurements in biological and environmental samples allows readers to evaluate data quality and appropriate uses of the data (e.g., for comparison to other exposure studies, association with health outcomes, use in regulatory decision-making). However many studies do not adequately describe or interpret QC assessments in publications, leaving readers uncertain about the level of confidence in the reported data. One potential barrier to both QC implementation and reporting is that guidance on how to integrate and interpret QC assessments is often fragmented and difficult to find, with no centralized repository or summary. In addition, existing documents are typically written for regulatory scientists rather than environmental health researchers, who may have little or no experience in analytical chemistry. (Full article...) Recently featured: ▪ One tool to find them all: A case of data integration and querying in a distributed LIMS platform ▪ What is the "source" of open-source hardware? ▪ From command-line bioinformatics to bioGUI — 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 system Electronic laboratory notebook Laboratory execution system Laboratory information management system Laboratory information system Scientific data management system All regulatory articles LIMSwiki publications: Laboratory Information Systems Project Management: A Guidebook for International Implementations, care of APHL A Guide for Management: Successfully Applying Laboratory Systems to Your Organization's Work The Complete Guide to LIMS & Lab Informatics

LIMSwiki books Examples of books printed from Wikipedia A LIMSwiki book is a collection of LIMSwiki articles that can be easily saved to the wiki, rendered electronically in PDF, or ordered as a printed book. Need to know more about LIMSwiki books? Create a book - use the book creator User help – help with using the tool Advanced help – help with advanced functions FAQ – a FAQ regarding the tool Feedback – report and track bugs Bookshelf Browse all 53 LIMSwiki books.

Laboratory informatics software and products Are you looking for LIMS software? An electronic laboratory notebook? Or perhaps laboratory equipment? Try these suggestions: All active lab equipment and software vendors CDS vendors past and present ELN vendors past and present LIMS vendors past and present LIS vendors past and present SDMS vendors past and present Misc. informatics software vendors past and present Additional tools: Laboratory and scientific informatics consultants Key laboratory informatics vendors and software Inactive informatics software vendors Classifications of vendors LIMS vendors by industry LIMSpec 2019 R1, a laboratory informatics specification

LIMSwiki journal articles Open-access articles becoming more common A LIMSwiki journal article is a selected open-access article relating to various fields of informatics, free to republish elsewhere with proper citation. You can browse the collection using the tools below. Also note that like other articles found on this wiki, journal articles can be added to LIMSwiki books. For a full listing of journals — open-access and otherwise — relating to laboratory informatics, bioinformatics, and other forms of informatics, please see LIMSWiki:Resources/Journals. Journal articles Browse all 301 journal articles. All 26 journal articles about informatics in general · All 75 journal articles about health informatics

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 Open-source SDMS software

Additional LIMSwiki resources We've created several resources for users of the wiki over the years, including the LIMSwiki informatics resource portal, which contains among other tools: Magazines, journals, and blogs Organizations, not-for-profits, and special interest groups Conferences and trade shows Consultants Knowledge base, research, and reference Popular in-house guides: Comprehensive Guide to Developing and Implementing a Cybersecurity Plan COVID-19 Testing, Reporting, and Information Management in the Laboratory Past, Present, and Future of Cannabis Laboratory Testing and Regulation in the United States, Third Edition LIMSpec 2019 R1, a laboratory informatics specification guide The Laboratories of Our Lives: Labs, Labs Everywhere! The Practical Guide to the U.S. Physician Office Laboratory Laboratory, Scientific, and Health Informatics Buyer's Guide

Additional information Latest news November 23, 2020: Sadly, the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, and with it plenty of changes since late August. As such, it was time to again update our guide COVID-19 Testing, Reporting, and Information Management in the Laboratory. For this "Fall 2020" edition (previous version was "2.0"), not only are historical data, statistics, URLs, and test kit information updated, as usual. This update also adds the latest on the long-term effects of the disease, organizational and agency guidance, changes to laboratory-developed tests, billing and reporting, point-of-care and at-home testing, biosafety, and much more. Some lengthy sections were also given a few subsection headers for better presentation. May the new content prove useful. Stay safe! Shawn Douglas (talk) 17:07, 23 November 2020 (UTC)   August 27, 2020: With input from others, more work has been put into the guide COVID-19 Testing, Reporting, and Information Management in the Laboratory. Not only has the rapidly changing state of the COVID-19 pandemic forced more timely updates to this guide, but also a need to clarify how a laboratory can get started with COVID-19 and other respiratory testing became obvious. As such, the guide receives an entire new chapter on the considerations surrounding adding such testing workflow to your lab. Additionally, statistics have been updated, new test methods and findings have been added, citations have been updated and added, and other minor tweaks have been made. As such, the guide has been incremented from version 1.1 to 2.0. Hope you find the new content useful. Stay safe! Shawn Douglas (talk) 22:24, 27 August 2020 (UTC) July 24, 2020: After some on-again, off-again research, we finally had time to put the finishing touches on a cybersecurity guide. With more laboratories than ever using networked hardware and software tools to manage data, improve workflows, and provide insights, it seemed time to address the importance of laboratories focusing on cybersecurity. We say "laboratories," but to be fair, our completed Comprehensive Guide to Developing and Implementing a Cybersecurity Plan and its companion piece, An Example Cybersecurity Plan, will undoubtedly be useful to practically any business wanting to take a start at or improve existing cybersecurity planning. The guide provides background to cybersecurity planning, proposes a 10-step process for creating a plan, and offers up a simplified version of security controls from NIST Special Publication 800-53, Rev. 4, tied into our existing LIMSpec document. The example plan puts that 10-step process to work in the fictional environmental lab ABC123 Co. We hope you find both documents useful. May your cybersecurity efforts be fruitful! Shawn Douglas (talk) 17:02, 24 July 2020 (UTC) — Read more archived news —