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Welcome to LIMSwiki.org, the laboratory, health, and science informatics encyclopedia. Users have contributed: 1,607 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

COVID-19 Laboratory Resources A few important resources concerning the COVID-19 disease—in particular relating to laboratory testing—have been added to LIMSwiki. This section collates those internal articles for your convenience. Additionally, a few key external links are also included here. Guides : COVID-19 Testing, Reporting, and Information Management in the Laboratory (Updated July 2020) Guidance documents and authorized in vitro diagnostic test kits ▪ Laboratory testing for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in suspected human cases (WHO) ▪ Laboratory biosafety guidance related to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) (WHO) ▪ Policy for diagnostic tests for Coronavirus Disease-2019 during the public health emergency (FDA) ▪ Frequently asked questions on COVID-19 testing at laboratories (with links to guidance documents) (CDC) ▪ In vitro diagnostics emergency use authorizations (EUAs), with test kit instructions (FDA) Relevant LIMSwiki articles ▪ COVID-19 (the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2) ▪ SARS-CoV-2 (the caronavirus strain responsible for COVID-19) ▪ Coronavirus (the virus family, of which SARS-CoV-2 is a member) ▪ COVID-19 testing ▪ Nucleic acid amplification test

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 49 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

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 263 journal articles. All 23 journal articles about informatics in general · All 65 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 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) June 1, 2020: The Most Popular Pages section has been removed from the front page of LIMSwiki today. For much of its existence, it stood as a fun means to see which pages were receiving the most viewer traffic, while also providing insights into which pages deserved a touch more editing attention. However, in recent years, it has been coopted by others to artificially inflate page views of specific vendor pages, to give those vendors a higher and unjustified ranking. This largely destroyed the original fun and intent of the tool, leaving it largely meaningless. In retrospect, a tool that included the word "popular" was inevitably going to be turned into a popularity contest, which is partially my fault. Alas ... Shawn Douglas (talk) 17:17, 1 June 2020 (UTC) May 20, 2020: It pleases me to announce the release of Edition 1.0 of the guide COVID-19 Testing, Reporting, and Information Management in the Laboratory. Given the rapidly changing state of the COVID-19 pandemic, this guide will receive minor updates every few weeks, or as needed (and thus the decimal editioning). The guide was created to address the evolving status of laboratory testing, reporting, and information management for the COVID-19 disease and pandemic. Aside from testing, reporting, and informatics topics related to COVID-19 (and other respiratory diseases), the guide also addresses tangential issues such as the slight relaxation of regulatory requirements like HIPAA and CLIA, as well as the technological advantages and challenges associated with digital contact tracing. The guide has a strong leaning towards the U.S. demographic, but several aspects of the guide branch out beyond the U.S. I hope you find it useful. Shawn Douglas (talk) 18:17, 20 May 2020 (UTC) — Read more archived news —