LIMSWiki:LIMSforum and LIMS/LI annual top 50

This page was created to collect most of the commented and active threads from the LIMSforum and LIMS/LI user groups hosted on LinkedIn. (Threshold is three or more comments.) The LIMSforum's goal is to "connect, share, and learn about laboratory, scientific, and healthcare informatics," while LIMS/LI is more focused on laboratory informatics.

Commented and Active Posts from LIMSforum and LIMS/LI # Post Author Forum Year - Month Comments Likes 47. Friday prophecy about future of LIMS vendors. What’s your opinion? Janecek Michael 2013 - 10 25 4 48. Can you tell LIMS suitable for scientific chemistry lab? I want to store data about the samples and the data of their research. I would be very grateful if you could tell open source solutions Aleksandr Iakovlev 2013 - 10 14 2 49. The highly automated and integrated lab to the extreme John Jones 2013 - 10 11 4 50. Has anyone setup a wireless network dedicated for lab instrumentation such that it is not mixed with regular network traffic? John Jones 2013 - 10 11 3 43. Do you make use of Business Analytics within your lab? John Jones 2013 - 09 14 5 45. How do you find good Laboratory Informatics professionals? John Jones 2013 - 09 13 3 44. LIMS for biotechnology Luiz Antonio Falaguasta Barbosa 2013 - 09 12 3 46. Dear Everyone, Can anyone inform me that STAR LIMS is full compliant to ISO17025? And comparison of Star LIMS with Labware Asad Roman 2013 - 09 11 5 40. Which LIS do you use in your clinical laboratory? John Jones 2013 - 08 19 3 41. Is your LIMS/LIS integrated with EHR systems? John Jones 2013 - 08 11 2 42. When looking for LIMS developer consultants what is most important? John Jones 2013 - 08 10 1 38. Can someone recommend a LIMS software package or Web based system for a small lab? Catherine McCord 2013 - 07 26 6 39. Open Source is racing to the top! Can it do the same for LIMS John Jones 2013 - 07 24 5 33. How to find a LIMS consultant to help with your LIMS project? John Jones 2013 - 06 27 5 34. Can anyone tell me what is the difference between customization and configuration in the LIMS world? Mukunth Venkatesan 2013 - 06 19 6 35. Clarification on FDA Regulations Jeff Urbanczyk 2013 - 06 15 6 36. How important is it for you to be able to do ad-hoc reporting of your LIMS data John Jones 2013 - 06 15 2 37. Does this article make sense to you as a LIMS users? John Jones 2013 - 06 12 3 30. Does anyone can help me in preparing the Functional Specifications for SAP LIMS integration as in what details should be covered in that? Suman Malik 2013 - 05 14 1 31. Can anyone recommend a LIMS Solution with an offline working order entry? Melissa Kokel 2013 - 05 14 0 32. Getting data in and out of Labware LIMS - preferably without files. Advice required. David Joyce 2013 - 05 10 1 25. Has anyone implemented Mirth for exchanging data between LIS and EHR? John Jones 2013 - 04 30 5 26. How should one go about learning LIMS in general or a particular LIMS package? John Jones 2013 - 04 26 4 27. Blood banking and tracking software requirements John Jones 2013 - 04 20 3 28. What are some good solutions & techniques for Instrument Interfacing? John Jones 2013 - 04 18 5 29. Why there are rare LIMS Consultants with SAMPLE MANAGER experience? we are facing difficulties in finding potential candidate for our Client. Please let me Know the reason. Pankaj Brohma 2013 - 04 17 0 16. Current List of LIMS Vendors. Please check it to make sure it is accurate and complete John Jones 2013 - 03 49 8 17. Hi, we´re doing a research about cloud-lims. Please help us answer this question. Would you buy a Lims directly online and store your data on external server? Adam Wahlund 2013 - 03 29 5 18. Why do you hate your LIMS? Peter Nollert 2013 - 03 23 1 19. I have a catalog of substances that i am trying to upload as an SDF. I have the drawings in various formats but not SDF. Any advice? George Maguire 2013 - 03 13 1 20. What is the easiest way for a lab to define their LIMS requirements? John Jones 2013 - 03 11 1 21. Migration of LIMS, ELN to a new platform is a big challenge these days. Does anyone in this group experienced in this upgrade? Somnath Mukherjee 2013 - 03 11 1 22. Do any end-users in this group have positive or negative experiences with LIMS or ELNs that they would like to share with the readers of Lab Manager Magazine? Angelo DePalma 2013 - 03 11 0 23. Measurement of Uncertainty in a LIS Matt Nielsen 2013 - 03 10 2 24. LIMS: Sapio Exemplar Vs. Genologics Clarity: Has anyone had experience implementing these systems in a mid capacity NGS core. We offer most of the NGS pipelines including Sanger sequencing. Thanks Saikumar Karyala 2013 - 03 10 1 7. Why Laboratory Informatics Programming is Often So Poor Gloria Metrick 2013 - 02 24 3 8. Request for comment on LIMS Features John Jones 2013 - 02 23 0 9. What interface to provide in an Instrument for good LIMS / Middleware compatibility? Andy Atkinson 2013 - 02 22 1 10. Are science software archives useless? Avrum Goodblatt 2013 - 02 22 1 11. Data silos and you, thoughts/opinions? How do we break these things down? Rebecca Fein 2013 - 02 14 3 12. Data Exchange Between Lab Equipment and Modern PC’s Steven Zobrist 2013 - 02 14 2 13. I would like group feedback on the list of lab informatics providers shown on the home page of LIMSwiki.org Shawn Douglas 2013 - 02 13 0 14. Looking for scheduling software for shared lab equipment Jens Karlsson 2013 - 02 12 1 15. The top 10 questions about the People's Liberation Army's cyber attacks John Jones 2013 - 02 11 1 1. What's the resistance to open source? Rebecca Fein 2013 - 01 20 3 2. U.S. Department of Homeland Security is advising people to disable the Java software on their computers John Jones 2013 - 01 17 7 3. Im looking for a good lims system for a lab that turns over abour 10000 per year. Employs 8 people and does soil and water testing. Any suggestions? Ruth Clinton 2013 - 01 17 1 4. Thinking of building your own system? You may enjoy this interview with small biotech that decided to build their own sample tracking system from scratch. Rob Day 2013 - 01 12 6 5. Telling folks to stop using Java is a bit like telling the Chinese to stop breathing air John Jones 2013 - 01 11 6 6. I am looking for a low cost highly functional lab middleware program to tie in Beckman and Siemens analyzers. Looking for auto verify and qc tracking John Malusky 2013 - 01 10 1 44. The challenge of open source... Rebecca Fein 2012 - 12 42 1 45. Independent Requirements Definition Service For LIMS Projects from a LIMS vendor? Hmmm. John Jones 2012 - 12 23 3 46. The cloud tipping point - 2012 seems to have been the year. When will labs follow suit? John Jones 2012 - 12 18 0 47. Another funny Dilbert Cartoon related to LIMS pricing and other such mysteries John Jones 2012 - 12 15 4 48. Is a Lab Execution System just another name for a LIMS? John Jones 2012 - 12 13 5 49. Hello Everyone, Can anyone give me an overview of the advantages of using STARLIMS in a mining laboratory in comparison to another LIMS system (we are currently running CCLAS-Ventix). Thanks Adriana Sanchez 2012 - 12 13 3 50. What is the proper role of comparison shopping in Health Informatics? Rebecca Fein 2012 - 12 9 4 42. Are serial port based instruments still common in the lab? John Jones 2012 - 11 24 2 43. A problem with LIMS on an internal network Ivan Popov 2012 - 11 15 0 39. Is there a reason for a lack of innovation in the LIMS industry? John Jones 2012 - 10 17 4 40. hi all , is it necessary to have our LIMS software validated by the FDA to sold and install it in the US ? some of my friends says no and others said yes ......Thanks for your informations... Frederic Buisson 2012 - 10 11 1 41. Use of digital signatures on final reports Neill Rosenthal 2012 - 10 10 0 32. Do it Yourself (DiY) LIMS. Is it right for your lab? Are you a software developer or a lab? John Jones 2012 - 09 26 0 33. The DiY LIMS... Does this Dilbert cartoon remind you of anything? John Jones 2012 - 09 18 4 34. Switching from a paper lab notebook - help and suggestions needed. Pawel Lorkiewicz 2012 - 09 14 0 35. In the environmental analytical contract lab industry, are value-added services becoming "the norm" and part of clients' expectations? Katharine Kaye 2012 - 09 12 2 36. LIMS final reports and the need to edit those reports John Jones 2012 - 09 12 1 37. I had some questions regarding LIMS pricing 1) Typically are user licenses & server renewed on an annual basis? I read through the 2012 buying guide and I wasn't clear on this. Thanks! Robert Melkus 2012 - 09 12 0 38. Web Browser based apps have been the trend for about 10 years now. What is next? John Jones 2012 - 09 8 2 26. When defining your lab's informatics requirements, what are the key points to cover? John Jones 2012 - 08 28 3 27. Announcement from LIMS/Laboratory Informatics- 8/14/2012 Terry Iorns 2012 - 08 24 2 28. Are LIMS and LIS the same thing? John Jones 2012 - 08 21 3 29. Is there much diffeence in chemstation and empower Shital Yadav 2012 - 08 21 1 30. How do you use laboratory informatics tools / processes to support lean concepts in your lab? Katharine Kaye 2012 - 08 14 4 31. NGS LIMS Alex Birch 2012 - 08 11 0 22. What do you use for Data Mining, especially in drug discovery ? Johann Lauthier 2012 - 07 19 1 23. Is there a list of LIMS, ERP or SDMS solution that are based (or at least able to manage) chemical structures? Lionel Colliandre 2012 - 07 14 1 24. Thoughts about our current Logo Alex Birch 2012 - 07 14 0 25. Suggestions on how to migrate LIMS data from a legacy LIMS to a new LIMS John Jones 2012 - 07 8 6 20. Does "Big Data" apply to Lab Informatics in ways other than Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)? John Jones 2012 - 06 26 1 21. Stand alone Blood Bank application. Rodney Tinsley 2012 - 06 12 0 17. Does Open Source have some advantages when it comes to validation? John Jones 2012 - 05 27 1 18. Suggestions for an inexpensive barebone LIMS Pujing Pan 2012 - 05 19 3 19. What is the most important trend for Lab Informatics Software? John Jones 2012 - 05 12 3 11. It's time to run Java out of town, are LIMS built on Java the next to go? John Jones 2012 - 04 44 2 12. Is there any use or need for a Wiki in the laboratory? John Jones 2012 - 04 32 3 13. Anyone know of a solid QBD (quality by design) program for small scale PD? Needs to be OPC Matt Barnes 2012 - 04 14 0 14. Are there any good work group collaboration tools that can be an alternative to a LIMS? John Jones 2012 - 04 10 1 15. Hi, did anyone use a LIMS for sequencing core facility? I am now testing Gnomex wich is open source and designed for highthrouput sequencing platform. That looks to give us satisfaction. Mohammed-Amin Madoui 2012 - 04 9 4 16. Is the iPad the future of lab data management and scientific collaboration? Rob Day 2012 - 04 8 2 5. Is a LIMS the platform of choice for the future "Integrated Lab" John Jones 2012 - 03 36 1 6. Does anyone use a Serial-to-Ethernet device to interface lab software to serial instruments? John Jones 2012 - 03 24 0 7. Today, Excel is widely used for data capture/performing some basic data analysis tasks. Based on our study, we found below listed challenges ..Read More Siva Venugopal 2012 - 03 23 4 8. How would you rate the quality of Open Source Software compared to commercial software John Jones 2012 - 03 22 0 9. What is the best LIMS for next-generation genomics/Sequencing samples? Chintan Desai 2012 - 03 10 3 10. Documenting and diagramming business processes James Smith 2012 - 03 10 1 3. The most comprehensive list of LIMS Vendors / Products in the industry John Jones 2012 - 02 83 40 4. What LIMS systems do you have experience with? Jason Pelish 2012 - 02 58 2 1. Will Cloud Computing do to licensed software companies what the internet did to magazines & newspapers? John Jones 2012 - 01 75 3 2. Here's a question for LIMS professionals: Do you have professional laboratory experience where you've performed tests and analyses? Jason Pelish 2012 - 01 26 2