openBIS ELN-LIMS: an open-source database for academic laboratories

Caterina Barillari; Diana S M Ottoz; Juan Mariano Fuentes-Serna; Chandrasekhar Ramakrishnan; Bernd Rinn; Fabian Rudolf

doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btv606

openBIS ELN-LIMS: an open-source database for academic laboratories

Bioinformatics. 2016 Feb 15;32(4):638-40. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv606. Epub 2015 Oct 27.

Authors

Caterina Barillari¹, Diana S M Ottoz², Juan Mariano Fuentes-Serna¹, Chandrasekhar Ramakrishnan¹, Bernd Rinn¹, Fabian Rudolf³

Affiliations

¹ ETH Zurich ID SIS and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
² ETH Zurich D-BSSE and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, 4058 Basel, Switzerland and Life Science Zurich PhD Program on Molecular and Translational Biomedicine and Competence Center for Personalized Medicine, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
³ ETH Zurich D-BSSE and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, 4058 Basel, Switzerland and.

Abstract

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.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Biological Science Disciplines*
Computer Systems
Databases, Factual*
Information Management*
Information Systems
Laboratories*
Software
User-Computer Interface