LIMS Lab Software Directory for Laboratory Information Management Systems By LIMSfinder

May 08, 2007
Laboratory Informatics Weekly Update

Volume 5, Issue 19

In This Issue

LIMS Blog Postings

Just like all of the rest of creation, an ideal Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) is made up of some essential elements. The LIMS of today is really a full enterprise management system, not just the sample tracking application of yesteryear. Accordingly, it must be made up of all of the right elements so that it provides your laboratory alchemists with gold, not lead..

Statistical Quality Control for the Food Industry

In reviewing this book on Google recently, I found it to have a number of good concepts to incorporate into LIMS for the F&B industry. Given the current news on food contamination (on purpose, I might add), none of these concepts will help protect our food supply if food ingredients are going to consist of plastic (melamine). Statistical Quality Control can let you have a better quality process for killing pets! Excuse my attitude concerning this but something must change in the food industry.

Florida vet probes pet deaths

Most everyday you hear about the problems with contamination of pet foods and the alarming number of pet deaths. Thankfully, our state agriculture departments are doing more to protect our pets and public health than the FDA. Learn more about what a state veterinarian is doing at the Florida Department of Agriculture...

Demonstrations & Presentations

LIMS for the Water, Wastewater Laboratory

Enterprise Software for the Pharmaceutical Laboratory

LIMS for Agriculture - What you do, What you need and How to get it

LabLite LIMS Product Demo

LabLite Process Control Demo

NWA Quality Analyst SPC Software

LIMS, the laboratory ERP

Articles

XML Reporting in SQL*LIMS

For several years my boss, Brian, has been telling me that the perfect solution for a LIMS Certificate of Analysis report would use a solid data extraction algorithm and a flexible XML output. The idea has always sounded interesting to me, except for the fact that the SQL*LIMS product doesn’t include the technology to do such a thing…until now. Today’s article describes how to customize SQL*LIMS and Oracle Reports to send data to XML, and how to convert that XML output to PDF.

Recent News

05/07/2007 - Atrium Research Announces the Third Edition of Landmark Report on Electronic Laboratory Notebooks

05/07/2007 - ESS Introduces EH&S Performance Software for Operational Excellence

05/04/2007 - e2v implements Kalabie Electronic Lab Notebook for Biosensors R&D

05/04/2007 - Starlims Technologies Files for IPO

05/04/2007 - New QSI Services for WinLIMS Rental Customers

05/04/2007 - Thermo Fisher Scientific Introduces New Poster - Nautilus LIMS Plate Handling Capabilities for High Throughput Applications

05/03/2007 - Universal Health Services Inc. (UHS) Selects MediSolution for Hosted Laboratory Information System Solution

Upcoming Events

05/24/2007 - FDA Audits – How to Successfully Pass a QC Analytical Laboratory Specific Audit

05/23/2007 - 7th Annual e-Clinical Trials

05/23/2007 - An Inclusive Environmental Control Program for Aseptic Processing Facilities & Microbial Environmental Monitoring Program