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Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS)
Laboratory information management systems (LIMS) mean very different things to different people. Different research groups have different lab work practices and widely different needs. Some are proprietary commercial packages, while others are open-source tool kits. Some are generic, others are customized solutions to meet the specific needs of individual research groups or disciplines. A core feature of all electronic LIMS is the ability to embed actual primary experimental results files within the log book itself – no longer are the log books and results data physically separated. At Monash a range of LIMS are in use. Talk to us about what would best meet your needs.
Wikis and blogs
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Wikis and blogs, such as the Sakai all-in-one collaboration environment, Twiki and Confluence wikis and WordPress blog, can provide informal, interactive and responsive communications between team leaders, researchers, research students and remote collaborators, while providing an enduring log of all activity in the laboratory.
Prof. Ross Coppel has made extensive use of these technologies in the VBC laboratories, while the VeRSI project is assisting him to develop their utility further.
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Digital Asset Management Systems (DAMS) – Mediaflux Desktop
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A general purpose digital asset management system can provide an effective LIMS in many applications. Mediaflux Desktop is being developed for Monash specifically to meet the needs of researchers, to store, manage and contextualize image, video and other research datasets and their associated metadata and annotations. |
IDBS
eNotebook
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eNotebook is a Microsoft Office 2007 Word based ELN (Electronic Lab Notebook) which is being developed to meet the needs of a MISCL and ARMI specifications so as to replace their formal paper-based lab record books, and more broadly for other research groups, such as in the Biological Sciences. A ‘pilot’ version has been developed and is in operation with both MISCL and ARMI. eNotebook is to be rolled out to a number of other medical research labs. Further development is currently pending funding. |
XDMS – Crystallography Data Management System
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XDMS is a fully customised LIMS environment. It has been developed by the DART and ARCHER projects to meet the specific needs of protein crystallographers. |
Australian Synchrotron Virtual BeamLine – VeRSI VBL
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The VeRSI project has developed the Virtual BeamLine (VBL) which allows researchers to observe and participate in synchrotron experiments remotely from the Australian Synchrotron site. The VBL includes live video and telemetry feeds and an electronic data mover facility to transfer experimental results to researchers’ home institutions. |
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