A Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) is computer software that is used in the laboratory for the management of samples, laboratory users, instruments, standards and other laboratory functions such as invoicing, plate management, and work flow automation. A LIMS and a Laboratory Information System (LIS) perform similar functions. The primary difference is that LIMS are generally targeted toward environmental, research or commercial analysis, such as pharmaceutical or petrochemical, and LIS are targeted toward the clinical market (hospitals and other clinical labs).

Life science LIMS

Impact of biotechnologies on LIMS

Biotechnologies have introduced a number of changes in the Life Science field. High Throughput spread from the limited field of drug candidate screening to gene screening, protein screening, etc. This make LIMS a new necessity, even in fundamental laboratories.

In the case of a lab that carries out many different tests for multiple customers - a sample-centric approach is preferable because the sample type can drive the process configuration. If a lab carries out a single test at high throughput testing - a process-centric approach should be used in order to optimize the workflow.

See also

• Scientific Computing (publication)

External links

• LIMSFinder
• LIMSource
• Scientific Computing & Instrumentation
• The LIMS Mailing List
• LIMS UK
• LIMS Network- Welcome to the global LIMS community, LIMSNetwork.com
• LIMSExpert

Commercial (listed alphabetically)

• Athena LIMS - Genoinfomatics Ltd.^*
• BlazeLIMS - Blaze Systems Corp.^*
• CoreLIMS - Customized Laboratory Information Management Systems - Core Informatics, LLC^*
• ELEMENT DATASYSTEM - Promium^*
• eQMS::LIMS - Cross Industry LIMS, eQMS::DNA (DNA fingerprint) - Pardus d.o.o.^*
• Horizon LIMS - ChemWare, Inc.^*
• IBS AG CAQ=QSYS LIMS - Process oriented LIMS.^*
• Forensic Advantage^*
• LABlynx - LABlynx, Inc.^*
• LabSoft LIMS - Computing Solutions, Inc.^*
• LABTrack - EKM Corporation^*
• LabWare LIMS - LabWare, Inc.^*
• LABWORKS LIMS - PerkinElmer, Inc.^*
• Limsophy LIMS - AAC Infotray AG^*
• Matrix Gemini LIMS - Autoscribe^*
• MBioLIMS - Modul-Bio^*
• Porter Lee Corporation LIMS for Forensic Labs^*
• QESTLab - Spectra Quality Engineering Software Tools^*
• Sample Master Pro LIMS - Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc. --- 1.800.565.LIMS^*
• SampleManager, Nautilus, Darwin, Watson, Galileo, LabManager - Thermo Electron Corp.^*
• Sapphire LIMS - LabVantage, Inc.^*
• SibioCLE - Sibio, SAS^*
• SQL*LIMS - Applied Biosystems ^*
• StarLIMS - StarLIMS, Inc.^*
• Super Lab - Latent Logics Infosoft Pvt. Limited^*
• Telecation - Telecation Inc.^*
• UNIFlow User-Configurable LIMS - UNIConnect^*
• Wavefront LIMS - Wavefront Software, Inc.^*
• WinLIMS - Quality Systems International Corporation^*

Non Profit

• BioReagent LIMS: Oligos, Plasmids, Strains - BioRoot Bioinformatics

Open Source

• Bika LIMS^*
• caLIMS^*
• Flow LIMS^*
• GnosisLIMS
• HalX^*
• OpenLIMS^*

Market Research on Informatics

• LIMS Market Research Reports
• Atrium Research

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