title: A System for Information Management in BioMedical Studies--SIMBioMS.
abstract: SIMBioMS is a web-based open source software system for managing data and information in biomedical studies. It provides a solution for the collection, storage, management and retrieval of information about research subjects and biomedical samples, as well as experimental data obtained using a range of high-throughput technologies, including gene expression, genotyping, proteomics and metabonomics. The system can easily be customized and has proven to be successful in several large-scale multi-site collaborative projects. It is compatible with emerging functional genomics data standards and provides data import and export in accepted standard formats. Protocols for transferring data to durable archives at the European Bioinformatics Institute have been implemented.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  The source code, documentation and initialization scripts are available at http://simbioms.org.
authors.affiliation: European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB101SD, UK. support@simbioms.org
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mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D003628:Database Management Systems; D016208:Databases, Factual; D019451:Information Management / Q000379:methods*; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software