The flamboyant dexterity of Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) can be leveraged to serve the automotive world with the same adroitness and business acumen as it has exhibited to the pharmaceutical and petrochemical industry. In the automotive sector, the standpoint of LIMS as a system to record and report the quality of the automotive fluids on a regular basis is imperative for the maintenance of expensive machinery.
This paper describes how biometrics is used in Forensics. It first gives a general introduction to biometrics desribing the main biometric technique of fingerprinting. hand geometry, eye/iris scans, and DNA. Then it gives an introduction of forensics with an example criminal case. Finally it discusses how biometrics is used in forensics, including an interesting handwriting example from the Ted Bundy case.
I have found a pretty cool little site that is licensed under Creative Commons. This site provides an on-line Forensic Chemistry Laboratory Manual that covers, Alcohol, Arson, Drugs, Explosives, Fabrics, Glass and most other things that your typical Forensics lab will encounter.
In this global world of cookie cutter mass produced products, the modern LIMS can stand out from those that are hard coded to a particular use. Avoid purchasing a hard coded LIMS. You can have a tailor fit with the price and quality of mass production. Progressive LIMS companies can avoid the downside of globalization and prosper by providing data driven, configurable solutions that fit the laboratory's exacting needs.
BxAF mLIMS (http://www.bioinforx.com/) is the only web-based solution for the need to organize laboratory animal-related information, such as mice, cages, animal events (mouse pregnancy, littering…), and animal-related research results.
It's interesting how books, papers and journals, the traditional open wares of academia and the sciences are slowly being succumbed by first open source scientific applications, and now open data web services.
Software is becoming more sophisticated. A truly civilized piece of software will destroy your data with a nice and polite message.
This presentation covers the selection process through defining User Requirements Specification (URS) and proceeds to system qualification and validation. This presentation provides a good outline from a users perspective.
This presentation give a very concise history of Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS). The presentation covers, what is a LIMS, advantage, disadvantages, the future of LIMS and whole lot more...
Freely web accessible database providing detailed information on metabolites, chemistry, enzymes, diseases and pathways.
LABLynx, Inc. was the first Laboratory Informatics provider to deliver a true browser-based Laboratory Information Management Solution in 1997. View this presentation to learn more about LABLynx and what makes us the LIMS industry leader with innovations that keep us at the forefront.
The following is a list of RSS feeds for the LIMSfinder site.
A year ago, some enterprising lads at the IT University of Copenhagen released a recipe of beer under the Creative Commons license. Because of the license, anybody that made money from selling the beer would need to give them credit and publish any changes to the recipe under a similar license. It was a novel idea and got some press from both the Open Source and the beer brewing communities.
But just like many applications in the Open Source world, getting an Open Source beer recipe is the first (and usually easiest) step in a long, involved, sometimes unpleasant, process. And I hope that anybody making Open Source anything takes criticism really well....
Have you started noticing a little symbol called "Creative Commons" showing up on numerous on-line publications, including this blog? This little icon is being adopted more and more by publishers on the Internet, especially in the scientific community. Creative Commons is helping to guarantee the free and open access to vital scientific information and publications.
Many commonly used genome browsers display sequence annotations and related attributes as horizontal data tracks that can be toggled on and off according to user preferences. Most genome browsers use only simple keyword searches and limit the display of detailed annotations to one chromosomal region of the genome at a time. We have employed concepts, methodologies, and tools that were developed for the display of geographic data to develop a Genome Spatial Information System (GenoSIS) for displaying genomes spatially, and interacting with genome annotations and related attribute data.
An ode to all of those that must suffer the slings and arrows of the not so perfect world of LIMS. It does not matter whether your software is large or small, old or young, it is guaranteed to have the ubiquitous Bugglet.
What if you could combine online data from multiple sources to create a customized, interactive Web application that could keep your supporters in the know without requiring them to visit more than one site? And what if you could do so using free, readily available tools, eliminating the need to build an expensive custom solution from the ground up? That's the idea behind hybrid online applications known as mashups.
With the advent of the growing Semantic Web (a web of open access databases) and other such Web 2.0 initiatives, there will be a growing call for Open Access publications. There is a strong rationale for OA that will change the effectiveness of scientific research.
In today's techno-world, some good ideas get a bad rap from too much jargon. Sometimes you can find the perfect icon to describe the hype. If you are interested in Web 2.0, you might want to get one of these little devices:
I recently responded to a post on the LIMS Mail List about the release of a new peer reviewed scientific publication called Pharma IT Journal. In my posting, I suggested that the new journal be released as an Open Access Journal. The following article gives a pretty good overview of exactly what Open Access is and the benefits to the scientific community.
