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openBIS ELN-LIMS: an open-source database for academic laboratories
Caterina Barillari1, Diana S M Ottoz2, Juan Mariano Fuentes-Serna1
1ETH Zurich ID SIS and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
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The open-source platform openBIS (open Biology Information System) offers an Electronic Laboratory Notebook and a Laboratory Information Management System (ELN-LIMS) solution suitable for the academic life science laboratories. openBIS ELN-LIMS allows researchers to efficiently document their work, to describe materials and methods and to collect raw and analyzed data. The system comes with a user-friendly web interface where data can be added, edited, browsed and searched.
Availability And Implementation:
The openBIS software, a user guide and a demo instance are available at https://openbis-eln-lims.ethz.ch. The demo instance contains some data from our laboratory as an example to demonstrate the possibilities of the ELN-LIMS (Ottoz et al., 2014). For rapid local testing, a VirtualBox image of the ELN-LIMS is also available.
