you're touching one of the most underdeveloped parts of free software! for images: use OMERO http://www.openmicroscopy.org this is The coming standard for microscopy images
LIMS: difficult. to give a concrete suggestion: * wasn't there a talk at the last BOSC mentioning a system developed at EBI? (I managed to track it down once) * more hardcore: would TRAC work? * database management: for minimal stuff, OO base and Kexi but this is making it easy. the problem starts as soon as you mention "adapted for our needs"; whenever someone says LIMS I think everyone wants their own thing. This goes in the far opposite direction of having a system everyone can use. I think a LIMS should integrate with the other local databases. It should also be able to operate with some electronical labbook (another underdeveloped area). I don't think there is a free system out there which can do this and is flexible so other labs can adapt it. the systems made are all made for in-house use. so by all means try to reuse something. but unless there is a system I have missed I think we need to develop something new. my take would be something like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENOVIA_MatrixOne where the first step is to define a sample workflow and roles. but then the design space is pretty open. you're not the only one needing a LIMS; would it be possible to collect more interested labs to design something together? /Johan On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Steffen Möller <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear all, > > our lab's sample management does not scale and needs an overhaul. The > idea is to migrate to an Open Source solution that fits the core needs > (what sample sent by whom in what form in what freezer last used by whom > for what project) and then have this adapted to our further needs. > "needs" most likely mean image data (antibody staining of various tissues). > > There are various solutions within the reach of google. But if anything > matching our core needs is already close to our community, then anything > else would find it difficult to impress me. My hope is that we can get > something like it into our distribution in a not too far future. After > all, it is such bits of software that link our medical informatics folks > of us with the biogeneticheminformatical other half. > > Many thanks in advance > > Steffen > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] > > -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Johan Henriksson PhD student, Karolinska Institutet http://mahogny.areta.org http://www.endrov.net
