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|homepage          =  [http://www.biodata.com/ BioData.com]
|homepage          =  [https://www.labguru.com/ Labguru.com]
|linkedin          =  [https://www.linkedin.com/company/labguru/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/labguru/]
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'''BioData Inc.''' develops and distributes [[laboratory informatics]] software solutions.
'''BioData Inc.''' develops and distributes [[laboratory informatics]] software solutions.


==History==
BioData, Inc. was founded by researcher and programer Jonathan Gross in August 2007. Prior to that, Gross had been working on his graduate degree in biotechnology and playing with programming on the side. Eventually his need for better research tools led him to work on what would eventually be called BioKM<ref name="LGAboutUs">{{cite web |url=http://www.labguru.com/company/about |title=About BioData |publisher=BioData, Inc |accessdate=24 February 2015}}</ref><ref name="BioKMInt">{{cite web |url=http://www.benchfly.com/blog/biokm-interview-online-lab-management/ |title=BioKM Interview: Online Lab Management |author=Gross, Jonathan |date=18 November 2009 |accessdate=24 February 2015}}</ref>:


<blockquote>I was always looking for better ways to organize my own research activities, to keep things connected and to properly document my work (OneNote, TiddlyWiki, Curio). At the time, I found by chance (or by buzz) a new programming framework Ruby On Rails and after learning that it was extracted from actual working apps, I decided to check it out (37Signals). I started playing with the idea of having a research-oriented app.</blockquote>


==History==
Later in 2010, Digital Science, a division of Macmillan Publishers, acquired an equity stake in BioData.<ref name="LGAboutUs" />


On December 5, 2011, BioKM and LabLife were replaced with BioData's new product Labguru.<ref name="Thaney">{{cite web |url=https://www.digital-science.com/blog/news/bringing-the-lab-into-the-21st-century/ |title=Bringing the Lab into the 21st Century |author=Thaney, Kaitlin |publisher=DigitalScience.com |date=5 December 2011 |accessdate=09 September 2013}}</ref>


In November 2022, the company updated its website to indicate that Labguru was no longer solely being marketed as an [[electronic laboratory notebook]] (ELN) but as an integrated ELN, [[laboratory information management system]] (LIMS), inventory management, and automation platform for labs.<ref name="LGHomeArch22">{{cite web |url=https://www.labguru.com/ |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20221110134841/https://www.labguru.com/ |title=Labguru - Powerful Lab Management Software That Drives |publisher=BioData Inc |archivedate=10 November 2022 |accessdate=27 January 2023}}</ref>


==Technology and products==
==Technology and products==
===Labguru===
===Labguru===
 
Labguru is a [[Cloud computing|cloud-based]], platform-based software solution that integrates an ELN with a LIMS, as well as inventory management and [[laboratory automation]] functionality. BioData describes it as software that "streamlines lab operations, prevents data loss, and speeds up your research outcomes – saving you time and money."<ref name="LabGHome">{{cite web |url=https://www.labguru.com/ |title=Labguru - Powerful Lab Management Software That Drives |publisher=BioData Inc |accessdate=27 January 2023}}</ref>  
Labguru is a [[laboratory information management system]] (LIMS) solution that allows you to "easily define your research projects, milestones, protocols, and experiments."<ref name=LabGPlan>{{cite web_short|url=http://www.labguru.com/solutions/plan/ |title=Labguru - Plan Experiments |publisher=BioData Inc. |accessdate=18 January 2012}}</ref> BioData's Labguru product replaced their LabLife and BioKM products on December 5, 2011.<ref>{{cite web_short|url=http://www.digital-science.com/biodata-launches-labguru/ |title=BioData Launches Labguru, a Collaborative Research Management Web Application for Academic Labs |publisher=DigitalScience.com|date=5 December 2011|accessdate=5 December 2011}}</ref>


====Features====
====Features====
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{| class="wikitable collapsible" style="border-style:none;" background="#ffffff" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"
  |-
  |-
   ! colspan="2"| Product: [http://www.labguru.com/solutions/plan/ Labguru]
   ! colspan="2"| Product: [https://www.labguru.com/ Labguru]
  |-
  |-
   ! colspan="2" style="color:brown; background-color:#ffffee;"| Sample, Inventory, and Data Management
   | style="background-color:white; border-style:none;"| {{Databox LIMSfeature
|-
| sample_login_man   = Y<ref name="LabGTrack">{{cite web |url=https://www.labguru.com/lims |title=Your Enhanced Laboratory Information Management System |publisher=BioData Inc |accessdate=27 January 2023}}</ref>  
   | Sample login and management?
| sample_track      = Y<ref name="LabGTrack" />
  | style="background-color:white;"| Y<ref name=LabGTrack>{{cite web_short|url=http://www.labguru.com/solutions/track/ |title=Labguru - Track Research Progress |publisher=BioData Inc. |accessdate=18 January 2012}}</ref>
| sample_batch      =  
|-
| task_event_sched   =  
  | Sample tracking?
| manual_entry      =  
  | style="background-color:white;"| Y<ref name=LabGTrack />
| multiple_view      = Y<ref name="LabGTrack" />
|-
| data_analysis      = Y<ref name="LabGTrack" />
  | Sample and/or result batching?
| data_sharing      = Y<ref name="LabGELN" />
  | style="background-color:white;"|
| custom_fields      =  
|-
| query              = Y<ref name="LabGTrack" />
  | Task and event scheduling?
| import_data        = Y<ref name="LabGTrack" />
  | style="background-color:white;"| Y<ref name=LabGTrack />
| data_linking_int   = Y<ref name="LabGELN">{{cite web |url=https://www.labguru.com/eln |title=The Groundbreaking Electronic Lab Notebook |publisher=BioData Inc |accessdate=27 January 2023}}</ref>  
|-
| data_linking_ext   =
  | Option for manual result entry?
| eln_support        = Y<ref name="LabGTrack" />
  | style="background-color:white;"|
| export_msexcel    =
|-
| export_raw        =
  | Multiple data viewing methods?
| data_warehouse    =  
  | style="background-color:white;"|
| deadline_control   =
|-
| production_control =  
  | Data and trend analysis?
| project_task_man   = Y<ref name="LabGELN" />
  | style="background-color:white;"|
| inventory_man      = Y<ref name="LabGTrack" />
|-
| document_man      =  
  | Data and equipment sharing?
| case_man          =  
   | style="background-color:white;"|
| workflow_man      = Y<ref name="LabGTrack" />
|-
| spec_man          =
  | Customizable fields and/or interface?
| customer_man      =
  | style="background-color:white;"|
| billing_man        =  
|-
 
  | Query capability?
| reg_compliance    = Y<ref name="LabGTrack" />
  | style="background-color:white;"| Y<ref name=LabGPlan />
| qa_qc              =
|-
| performance_eval   =  
  | Import data?
| audit_trail        =
  | style="background-color:white;"|
| chain_custody      =
|-
| roles_security    =  
  | Internal file or data linking?
| data_norm          =
  | style="background-color:white;"| Y<ref name=LabGTrack />
| data_val          =
|-
| data_encrypt      =  
  | External file or data linking?
| version_control    =
  | style="background-color:white;"| Y<ref name=LabGTrack />
| data_backup        =
|-
| enviro_monitoring  =
  | [[ELN]] support or integration?
 
  | style="background-color:white;"|
| custom_reporting   =  
|-
| report_printing    =
  | Export data to MS Excel?
| label_support      =
  | style="background-color:white;"|
| barcode_support    =  
|-
| export_pdf        =
  | Export raw date?
| export_msword      =
  | style="background-color:white;"|
| export_htmlxml    =  
|-
| fax_integration    =
  | Data warehouse?
| email_integration  =  
  | style="background-color:white;"|  Y<ref name=LabGTrack />
 
|-
| admin_manage      =
  | Deadline control?
| modular            =  
  | style="background-color:white;"|
| instrument_inter   = Y<ref name="LabGTrack" />
|-
| mobile_device      =
  | Production control?
| alarms_alerts      =
  | style="background-color:white;"|
| work_timetrack    =  
|-
| voice_rec          =
  | Project and/or task management?
| external_monitor  =
  | style="background-color:white;"| Y<ref name=LabGTrack />
| messaging          =
|-
| multilingual      =  
  | Inventory management?
| network            =
  | style="background-color:white;"| Y<ref name=LabGTrack />
| web_client        =
|-
| online_help        =  
  | Document creation and/or management?
| saas_model        = Y<ref name="LabGHome" />
  | style="background-color:white;"| Y<ref name=LabGPlan />
| usage_cost        =
|-
| industries        = agriculture, biotechnology, contract services, food and beverage, life sciences, manufacturing and R&D, pharmaceutical
  | Case management?
}}
  | style="background-color:white;"|
|-
  | [[Workflow]] management?
  | style="background-color:white;"| Y<ref name=LabGPlan />
|-
  | Specification management?
  | style="background-color:white;"|
|-
  | Customer management?
  | style="background-color:white;"|
|-
  | Billing management?
  | style="background-color:white;"|
|-
  ! colspan="2" style="color:brown; background-color:#ffffee;"| Quality, Security, and Compliance
|-
  | Regulatory compliance?
  | style="background-color:white;"|
|-
  | QA / QC functions?
  | style="background-color:white;"|
|-
  | Performance evaluation?
  | style="background-color:white;"|
|-
  | [[Audit trail]]?
  | style="background-color:white;"|
|-
  | [[Chain of custody]]?
  | style="background-color:white;"| Y<ref name=LabGTrack />
|-
  | Configurable roles and security?
  | style="background-color:white;"|
|-
  | Data normalization?
  | style="background-color:white;"|
|-
  | Data validation?
  | style="background-color:white;"|
|-
  | Data encryption?
  | style="background-color:white;"| Y<ref name=LabGPlan />
|-
   | Version control?
  | style="background-color:white;"|
|-
  | Automatic data backup?
  | style="background-color:white;"| Y<ref name=LabGPlan />
|-
  | Environmental monitoring?
  | style="background-color:white;"|
|-
  ! colspan="2" style="color:brown; background-color:#ffffee;"| Reporting, Labeling, and Printing
|-
  | Custom reporting?
  | style="background-color:white;"| Y<ref name=LabGResults>{{cite web_short|url=http://www.labguru.com/solutions/get-results |title=Labguru - Get Results |publisher=BioData Inc. |accessdate=18 January 2012}}</ref>
|-
   | Report printing?
  | style="background-color:white;"| Y<ref name=LabGResults />
|-
  | Label support?
  | style="background-color:white;"|
|-
   | Barcode support?
  | style="background-color:white;"|
|-
   | Export to PDF?
  | style="background-color:white;"|
|-
  | Export to MS Word?
  | style="background-color:white;"|
|-
  | Export to HTML and/or XML?
  | style="background-color:white;"|
|-
  | Fax integration?
  | style="background-color:white;"|
|-
  | Email integration?
  | style="background-color:white;"|
|-
  ! colspan="2" style="color:brown; background-color:#ffffee;"| Base Functionality
|-
  | Administrator management?
  | style="background-color:white;"|
|-
  | Modular?
  | style="background-color:white;"| Y<ref name=LabGTrack />
|-
  | Instrument interfacing and management?
   | style="background-color:white;"|
|-
  | Mobile device integration?
  | style="background-color:white;"|
|-
  | Alarms and/or alerts?
  | style="background-color:white;"|
|-
  | Work-related time tracking?
  | style="background-color:white;"|
|-
  | Voice recognition system?
   | style="background-color:white;"|
|-
  | External monitoring?
  | style="background-color:white;"|
|-
  | Messaging?
  | style="background-color:white;"|
|-
  | Multilingual?
  | style="background-color:white;"|
|-
  | Network-capable?
  | style="background-color:white;"|
|-
   | Web client or portal?
  | style="background-color:white;"| Y<ref name=LabGPlan />
|-
  | Online or integrated help?
  | style="background-color:white;"|  
|-
  | [[SaaS]] delivery option?
  | style="background-color:white;"|
|-
  | Usage-based cost?
  | style="background-color:white;"|
|-
  ! colspan="2" style="color:brown; background-color:#ffffee;"| Industries Served
|-
  |colspan="2" style="background-color:white;"| biotechnology, general, life sciences
  |-
  |-
|}
|}


====Pricing====
====Pricing====
Pricing is not made public.


Some pricing information is available via the [http://www.labguru.com/pricing Labguru website].
====Demonstration videos and other media====


* Labguru is free for personal use, including standard functionality, a basic storage location package, and a 2 GB space limit.
The following demonstration videos are available for Labguru:
* Labguru costs academic labs $12 per month, per user, including standard functionality, an advanced storage location package, and a 300 GB space limit. It also adds equipment scheduling, collaboration, and order management functionality.
 
* Labguru for industrial use has the same features as the academic version, but it includes digital signature support. Cost is not publicly available.
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv3WVHgBKuY How to Set up Projects]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K-mtD7gRmY How to create the perfect experiment]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2WaaHaFCvw Labguru Inventory Tour]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Sk7vzlrTg4 Labguru ELN tour]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwDPrNjrxwc Labguru Labeling system- The LabelWizard]
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R-qLy-mv9s Labguru - Research & Lab Management Software - A Testimonial by Anat Ben-Zvi, PhD]


====Additional information====
====Additional information====


==References==
==References==
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Latest revision as of 18:56, 27 March 2024

BioData Inc.
Type Incorporated
Industry Laboratory informatics
Headquarters 625 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Number of locations 2
Area served Worldwide
Products Labguru
Subsidiaries BioData Ltd.
Website Labguru.com
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/labguru/

BioData Inc. develops and distributes laboratory informatics software solutions.

History

BioData, Inc. was founded by researcher and programer Jonathan Gross in August 2007. Prior to that, Gross had been working on his graduate degree in biotechnology and playing with programming on the side. Eventually his need for better research tools led him to work on what would eventually be called BioKM[1][2]:

I was always looking for better ways to organize my own research activities, to keep things connected and to properly document my work (OneNote, TiddlyWiki, Curio). At the time, I found by chance (or by buzz) a new programming framework Ruby On Rails and after learning that it was extracted from actual working apps, I decided to check it out (37Signals). I started playing with the idea of having a research-oriented app.

Later in 2010, Digital Science, a division of Macmillan Publishers, acquired an equity stake in BioData.[1]

On December 5, 2011, BioKM and LabLife were replaced with BioData's new product Labguru.[3]

In November 2022, the company updated its website to indicate that Labguru was no longer solely being marketed as an electronic laboratory notebook (ELN) but as an integrated ELN, laboratory information management system (LIMS), inventory management, and automation platform for labs.[4]

Technology and products

Labguru

Labguru is a cloud-based, platform-based software solution that integrates an ELN with a LIMS, as well as inventory management and laboratory automation functionality. BioData describes it as software that "streamlines lab operations, prevents data loss, and speeds up your research outcomes – saving you time and money."[5]

Features

The following feature list(s) is/are derived solely from public, freely-available online information the vendor provides. A lack of a "Y" does not necessarily mean that the product doesn't have that feature. The lack of a "Y" could mean:
  • the vendor chose to not put relevant feature information online despite its existence in the product.
  • the vendor chooses to make the feature information available only to those who create an account or call/e-mail.
  • the feature information exists online to the public, but a URL could not be found to cite the existence of the feature.
  • the feature does not exist for the product.
A vendor's product may receive more confirmed features with the addition of more public information to the vendor's site and/or by providing a URL to a page or document that can act as a citation for the existence of the feature. Prospective buyers are highly recommended to contact the vendor directly to verify features as this list isn't authoritative, and product upgrades and changes happen rapidly in some cases.


Product: Labguru
Sample, inventory, and data management
Sample login and management?Y[6]
Sample tracking?Y[6]
Sample and/or result batching?
Task and event scheduling?
Option for manual result entry?
Multiple data viewing methods?Y[6]
Data and trend analysis?Y[6]
Data and equipment sharing?Y[7]
Customizable fields and/or interface?
Query capability?Y[6]
Import data?Y[6]
Internal file or data linking?Y[7]
External file or data linking?
ELN support or integration?Y[6]
Export data to MS Excel?
Raw data management?
Data warehouse?
Deadline control?
Production control?
Project and/or task management?Y[7]
Inventory management?Y[6]
Document creation and/or management?
Case management?
Workflow management?Y[6]
Specification management?
Customer and supplier management?
Billing management?
Quality, security, and compliance
Regulatory compliance?Y[6]
QA / QC functions?
Performance evaluation?
Audit trail?
Chain of custody?
Configurable roles and security?
Data normalization?
Data validation?
Data encryption?
Version control?
Automatic data backup?
Environmental monitoring?
Reporting, barcoding, and printing
Custom reporting?
Report printing?
Label support?
Barcode support?
Export to PDF?
Export to MS Word?
Export to HTML and/or XML?
Fax integration?
Email integration?
Base functionality
Administrator management?
Modular?
Instrument interfacing and management?Y[6]
Mobile device integration?
Alarms and/or alerts?
Work-related time tracking?
Voice recognition system?
External monitoring?
Messaging?
Multilingual?
Network-capable?
Web client or portal?
Online or integrated help?
Software as a service delivery model?Y[5]
Usage-based cost?
Industries served
agriculture, biotechnology, contract services, food and beverage, life sciences, manufacturing and R&D, pharmaceutical

Pricing

Pricing is not made public.

Demonstration videos and other media

The following demonstration videos are available for Labguru:

Additional information

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "About BioData". BioData, Inc. http://www.labguru.com/company/about. Retrieved 24 February 2015. 
  2. ↑ Gross, Jonathan (18 November 2009). "BioKM Interview: Online Lab Management". http://www.benchfly.com/blog/biokm-interview-online-lab-management/. Retrieved 24 February 2015. 
  3. ↑ Thaney, Kaitlin (5 December 2011). "Bringing the Lab into the 21st Century". DigitalScience.com. https://www.digital-science.com/blog/news/bringing-the-lab-into-the-21st-century/. Retrieved 09 September 2013. 
  4. ↑ "Labguru - Powerful Lab Management Software That Drives". BioData Inc. Archived from the original on 10 November 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221110134841/https://www.labguru.com/. Retrieved 27 January 2023. 
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Labguru - Powerful Lab Management Software That Drives". BioData Inc. https://www.labguru.com/. Retrieved 27 January 2023. 
  6. ↑ 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 "Your Enhanced Laboratory Information Management System". BioData Inc. https://www.labguru.com/lims. Retrieved 27 January 2023. 
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 "The Groundbreaking Electronic Lab Notebook". BioData Inc. https://www.labguru.com/eln. Retrieved 27 January 2023. 
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