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


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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.
ETH Zurich ID SIS and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
Caterina
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Barillari
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.
Diana S M
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Ottoz
ETH Zurich ID SIS and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
Juan Mariano
JM
Fuentes-Serna
ETH Zurich ID SIS and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
Chandrasekhar
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Ramakrishnan
ETH Zurich ID SIS and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland.
Bernd
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Rinn
ETH Zurich D-BSSE and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, 4058 Basel, Switzerland and.
Fabian
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Rudolf
D001690:Biological Science Disciplines; D003199:Computer Systems; D016208:Databases, Factual; D019451:Information Management; D007256:Information Systems; D007753:Laboratories; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface