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Welcome to LIMSwiki.org, the laboratory, health, and science informatics encyclopedia. Users have contributed: 1,719 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.

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Featured article of the week "AI4Green: An open-source ELN for green and sustainable chemistry" This paper presents the free and open-source, web-based electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) AI4Green, which combines features such as data archiving, collaboration tools, and green and sustainability metrics for organic chemistry. AI4Green offers the core functionality of an ELN, namely, the ability to store reactions securely and share them among different members of a research team. As users plan their reactions and record them in the ELN, green and sustainable chemistry is encouraged by automatically calculating green metrics and color-coding hazards, solvents, and reaction conditions. The interface links a database constructed from data extracted from PubChem, enabling the automatic collation of information for reactions. The application’s design facilitates the development of auxiliary sustainability applications, such as our Solvent Guide module. As more reaction data are captured, subsequent work will focus on providing “intelligent” sustainability suggestions to the user. (Full article...) Recently featured: The modeling of laboratory information systems in higher education based on enterprise architecture planning (EAP) for optimizing monitoring and equipment maintenance Identifying risk management challenges in laboratories An overview of data warehouse and data lake in modern enterprise data management — See more archived featured articles —

Guides, white papers, and more From implementing laboratory informatics solutions to securely working in the cloud, we cover it:   The Complete Guide to LIMS & Laboratory Informatics, 2023 Edition LIMSpec 2022 R2, a laboratory informatics specification LIMS Buyer’s Guide for Cannabis Testing Laboratories (on CannaQAwiki) Laboratory Informatics Buyer's Guide for Medical Diagnostics and Research, 2022 Edition Choosing and Implementing a Cloud-based Service for Your Laboratory, First Edition All guides, white papers, and other publications All LIMS FAQ articles ON THE WIKI: LIMS Selection Guide for Manufacturing Quality Control Comprehensive Guide to Developing and Implementing a Cybersecurity Plan, Second Edition LIMS Selection Guide for ISO/IEC 17025 Laboratories LIMS Selection Guide for Food Safety and Quality

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 65 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 Active CDS vendors Active ELN vendors Active LIMS vendors Active LIS vendors Active SDMS vendors Active misc. informatics software vendors 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 390 journal articles. All 26 journal articles about informatics in general · All 96 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

Additional information Latest news July 26, 2023: Do you feel your lab needs laboratory informatics software but you're not sure how to justify it to management? Then this new guide from Joe Liscouski and Shawn Douglas may be just what you need. Justification for a laboratory information management system (LIMS) or some other lab management solution isn't always straightforward with upper management and critical stakeholders; the process will need to be succinct and relevant, based on organizational goals, economic concerns, and practical realities. This guide will help you—whether you are a lab manager, lab technician, or someone else in the organization with a stake in seeing laboratory operations improve—understand what a LIMS is, what the alternatives are, what and why acquiring one looks like, and what needs to be considered in putting together a competent and persuasive LIMS project proposal. This guide also includes a handy Microsoft Excel workbook that will help act as a "cheat sheet" for persuading stakeholders to better buy into your vision of LIMS acquisition and deployment within your organization. Enjoy! Shawn Douglas (talk) 16:32, 26 July 2023 (UTC)   June 14, 2023: This is a quick heads-up that we released another guide last month, this time in regards to manufacturing-related laboratories. The first edition of the LIMS Selection Guide for Manufacturing Quality Control is now live and takes a closer look at this lab type, what roles it plays in society in regards to safety and quality, the efforts it must go to remain standardized and compliant, and the benefits in doing so. It also examines the unique laboratory informatics system requirements for these labs, turning to LIMSpec for clues as to what those systems need to do to help such labs better comply to the standard. Additional resources and request for information guidance is also provided. This one was a bit difficult to put together, as it was difficult to make broad generalizations given the differences among food and beverage, pharmaceutical, petrochemical, and other manufacturing-related industries. However, we hope you find enough useful information in this guide despite the broadness of scope. Shawn Douglas (talk) 22:44, 14 June 2023 (UTC) — Read more archived news —