Open-LIMS

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Open-LIMS
Open-LIMS logo.jpg
Developer(s) Roman Konertz, others
Initial release December 23, 2010 (2010-12-23) (Alpha 0.3.9.5)[1]
Stable release

0.4.0.0  (January 20, 2014; 10 years ago (2014-01-20))

[±]
Preview release none [±]
Written in PHP
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Laboratory informatics software
License(s) GNU General Public License v3
Website www.open-lims.org

Open-LIMS is a free extensible open-source project management suite designed to be organism- and structure-independent. Its design is based upon a workflow that encompasses pre-experimental and experimental processes. Post-experimental procedures such as data analysis can be added through software extensions. [2]

Product history

Open-LIMS appears to be the brainchild of Roman Konertz, a graduate student with the "Dictyostelium discoideum Functional Analysis" project at the University of Cologne.[3][4] A SourceForge project was started for Open-LIMS on November 24, 2010, followed by the first public release of the software about a month later.[1] The release was classified as an unstable alpha "for evaluation and testing purpose only."[5]

As of the end of March, no stable production-ready version of the software has been released, with unstable test releases being released through 2011 and early 2012, the latest being Version 0.3.9.9-5 on March 5, 2012.[6]

Features

The features of Open-LIMS are not yet clear as the project is still in the alpha stage. However, Konertz claims the features of Open-LIMS are closely tied to the needs of biological laboratories working in functional genomics, especially those in microarray and microscopy projects.[4]

Hardware/software requirements

Preliminary requirements for the alpha release can be found here.

Videos, screenshots, and other media

Early screenshots of Open-LIMS can be found at the Open-LIMS website.

Demo information can be found here.

Entities using Open-LIMS

As the project is still in alpha, there are no known users.

Further reading


External links

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Konertz, Roman (23 December 2011). "Upcoming changes and improvements in 2012". Roman Konertz. http://www.open-lims.org/development-blog-reader/items/upcoming-changes-and-improvements-in-2012.html. Retrieved 7 April 2012. 
  2. "Open-LIMS - Concept". Roman Konertz. http://www.open-lims.org/concept.html. Retrieved 7 April 2012. 
  3. Eichinger, Ludwig. "Dictyostelium discoideum Team". Institute for Biochemistry, University of Cologne. http://www.uni-koeln.de/med-fak/biochemie/transcriptomics/. Retrieved 7 April 2012. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 "Application Range". Roman Konertz. http://www.open-lims.org/application-range.html. Retrieved 7 April 2012. 
  5. Konertz, Roman (23 December 2010). "Preview-Version is ready for download now". Roman Konertz. http://www.open-lims.org/news---reader/items/preview-is-ready-for-download-now.html. Retrieved 7 April 2012. 
  6. Konertz, Roman (5 March 2012). "Version 0.3.9.9-5 published (with updater/installer)". Roman Konertz. http://www.open-lims.org/news---reader/items/version-0399-5-with-installer-published.html. Retrieved 7 April 2012.