Today we filled out an application to access the Open-LIMS demo. Open-LIMS has been developed for biological applications. Although Open-LIMS is developed based on the ongoing requirements of biological laboratories instead of a veterinary, many of the functions overlap and we find it useful to analyse it.
The concept behind Open-LIMS is to create an open source project management suite which is independent of both organisms and structures studied. Open-LIMS can also be expanded with extensions. With this project laboratories increase efficiency in their processes allowing members to become more productive by decreasing management time, analysis time and data mining time.
Open-LIMS is based on a work-flow circle with different experiment phases. The phases are: Planning an Experiment, Running the Experiment, Entering Data and Sharing the Data. Analysis is not included as part of the program but it can be added as an extension to it. For our project we will focus on the ways in which Open-LIMS allows to enter data, analyse the data (extension) and the way in which the data is viewed or presented to the user.
Open-LIMS recognizes 4 types of data: files, values, methods and samples. Files contain previously saved information or information comming from laboratory instruments. Not all laboratory instruments generate files, they can also generate printouts, to enter this data manually the system allows to define the requested data as "values". The used hardware and software can vary depending on the domain are saved as "methods"(some hardware may be different in genomic labs and veterinary labs). Lastly come samples, the user is capable of adding the samples he has used or to link existing samples to a particular project (perhaps in the veterinary.
This post will be edited accordingly once the login details for the demo are provided.
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