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Welcome to LIMSwiki.org, the laboratory, health, and science informatics encyclopedia. Users have contributed: 1,669 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.

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Featured article of the week "Advanced engineering informatics: Philosophical and methodological foundations with examples from civil and construction engineering" We argue that the representation and formalization of complex engineering knowledge is the main aim of inquiries in the scientific field of advanced engineering informatics. We introduce ontology and logic as underlying methods to formalize knowledge. We also suggest that it is important to account for the purpose of engineers and the context they work in while representing and formalizing knowledge. Based on the concepts of ontology, logic, purpose, and context, we discuss different possible research methods and approaches that scholars can use to formalize complex engineering knowledge and to validate whether a specific formalization can support engineers with their complex tasks. On the grounds of this discussion, we suggest that research efforts in advanced engineering should be conducted in a bottom-up manner, closely involving engineering practitioners. We also suggest that researchers make use of social science methods while both eliciting knowledge to formalize and validating that formalized knowledge. (Full article...) Recently featured: Explainability for artificial intelligence in healthcare: A multidisciplinary perspective Secure record linkage of large health data sets: Evaluation of a hybrid cloud model Risk assessment for scientific data — See more archived featured articles —

Popular content From implementing laboratory informatics solutions to analyzing the Cannabis plant, here is some of our most popular content:   The Complete Guide to LIMS & Laboratory Informatics The Laboratories of Our Lives: Labs, Labs Everywhere! Laboratory Information Systems Project Management: A Guidebook for International Implementations, care of APHL LIMSpec 2019 R1, a laboratory informatics specification Past, Present, and Future of Cannabis Laboratory Testing and Regulation in the United States, Third Edition COVID-19 Testing, Reporting, and Information Management in the Laboratory Comprehensive Guide to Developing and Implementing a Cybersecurity Plan ON THE WIKI: Choosing and Implementing a Cloud-based Service for Your Laboratory, First Edition LIMS Buyer’s Guide for Cannabis Testing Laboratories (on CannaQAwiki)

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 55 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: Consultancies 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 322 journal articles. All 26 journal articles about informatics in general · All 85 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 Educational programs, training, and certifications These resources have received a thorough refresh as of July 2021.

Additional information Latest news August 24, 2021: I'm pleased to announce the release of several new guides! First we have Choosing and Implementing a Cloud-based Service for Your Laboratory. This one has been a long while in the making, but we finally have it out in all its first edition glory. This guide examines the current state of cloud computing and the security mechanisms inherent to it, especially in regards to how they relate to today's laboratories. The guide also, necessarily, addresses organizational risk management before actually getting into the nuts and bolts of how the lab can benefit from cloud-based informatics applications such as laboratory information management systems (LIMS). In particular, this guide emphasizes the connection between the laboratory's quality control personnel and efforts towards maintaining the secure use of cloud applications in the lab. It also addresses the usefulness of managed security services before getting into selecting them and other cloud providers, and the RFI procedures that can benefit the selection process. Several appendices provide extra contextual information to your provider selection journey. Secondly, the LIMS Buyer’s Guide for Cannabis Testing Laboratories is live on our sister wiki, CannaQAwiki. This guide recognizes the challenges of the current cannabis testing environment for laboratories and identifies the value of the LIMS towards lessening the impact of those challenges on the cannabis testing lab. Happy reading! Shawn Douglas (talk) 17:56, 24 August 2021 (UTC)   July 1, 2021: This quick update is to inform you that after some neglect, the education section of the LIMSwiki Resource center has finally received an update. Time was short to check everything in each higher education facility's record, but all education program URLs were verfied and updated extensively. In a few cases, additional or new programs were added when found. This resource was originally developed in 2013, and in 2016 it received an update. It was very much in need of a refresh (particularly after the COVID-19 pandemic ravaged many higher education programs), and I finally found a little time to get it done. Happy educational program hunting! Shawn Douglas (talk) 23:49, 1 July 2021 (UTC) — Read more archived news —