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Developer(s) | Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics |
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Initial release | January 23, 2020[1] |
Stable release |
(November 22, 2023 [] ) |
Written in | JavaScript[2] |
Operating system | Cross-platform |
Type | Laboratory informatics software |
License(s) | GNU General Public License v3.0[3] |
Website | github.com/maxplanck-ie/parkour2 |
Parkour is a free open-source laboratory information management system (LIMS) released under the GNU General Public License v3.0. The software is tailored to meeting the needs of high-throughput sequencing laboratories. The developers at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics state it was "designed to coordinate laboratory work by clearly structuring tasks and facilitate high-quality sample preparation."[2]
In May 2016[4], after finding commercial options expensive or lacking in required features, researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics and the University of Freiburg began work on developing a laboratory information management system (LIMS) for not only next-generation sequencing sample management and preparation but also for documenting experimental procedures and standardizing experimental metadata.[5] Once the software reached a strong enough development stage, they published an article about their LIMS in the journal Bioinformatics in September 2018, making the software available on GitHub.[5] In January 2020, a stable first release, as 0.1.0, appeared on GitHub after more than a year of institutional use.[1]
An updated version of Parkour—referred to as Parkour2—was added to GitHub in June 2022[6], with a first stable release appearing on August 12, 2022, as 0.3.4.[7]
A collection of features are not clearly stated, but a few things can be discerned from the user manual:
The software requires[7]:
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