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What LIMS is the Best for Biobanks and Biorepositories? This article answers questions that many Biobank and Biorepository directors, managers, and clinical study coordinators often ask: What is the best LIMS for Biobanks and Biorepositories? Janine Dougan and Jennifer Jacobi are both LIMS experts with scientific backgrounds. Janine brings extensive clinical laboratory experience in specimen...

Why Is Change Control in LIMS Critical for Lab Compliance? Across nearly every regulated industry, from running lab tests and manufacturing medical devices to producing food products and developing new drugs, one operational discipline shows up again and again as mission-critical: tracking every change, every time. In life sciences, including biotech, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and...

Could a LIMS Make Managing Your Academic Lab Easier? Academic laboratories manage more than experiments. Lab managers and research teams must keep track of samples, cell lines, plasmids, reagents, instruments, protocols, storage locations, research data, and more, all while supporting multiple researchers and projects. When this information is spread across spreadsheets, paper records, shared drives,...

What could one missed stability sample cost your laboratory? If you’ve managed a pharmaceutical stability study using spreadsheets or paper logs, you know how quickly even a well-planned study can spiral. Hundreds or thousands of samples must sit under controlled environmental conditions, each on its own testing schedule that can run for months or years....

Is your laboratory spending more time managing workflows than advancing science? Running a modern laboratory requires balancing speed, accuracy, and compliance—all while managing growing sample volumes and increasingly complex workflows. Without the right systems in place, manual processes and disconnected data can quickly become obstacles to efficiency.  While spreadsheets and manual processes may work for...

What Should You Look for in a Biobanking LIMS? Modern biobanks often manage tens of thousands—or even millions—of biospecimens across multiple freezers, facilities, studies, and research programs. As collections continue to grow, manually tracking samples with spreadsheets or disconnected systems becomes increasingly difficult and significantly increases the risk of delays and errors.  That’s why scenes...

What Is the Best LIMS for Your Lab? If your laboratory is still relying on spreadsheets, disconnected software, or manual data entry, you’ve probably already felt the frustration. Samples get misplaced, reports take longer than they should, and your team spends valuable time tracking information instead of doing science.That’s why choosing the right Laboratory Information...

How Does LIMS Software Support Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) Compliance? GxP (Good Practice) regulations are a set of standardized quality guidelines established by agencies like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Medicines Agency (EMA). Their primary goal is to ensure that products like pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and biotechnology are safe, effective,...

Why Does Lab Collaboration Matter More Than Ever?  As laboratory operations become increasingly complex, effective collaboration is more critical to success than ever before. However, many laboratories still rely on disconnected tools such as emails, spreadsheets, and shared drives—systems that can slow communication, limit visibility, and create data silos. A Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS)...

Why Reports and Dashboards Matter In Lockbox LIMS Many reporting tools available in Lockbox LIMS are underused. Lockbox LIMS natively contains powerful report and dashboard tools because it is built using the Salesforce platform. Lockbox LIMS users do not need third-party software to build reports and dashboards that provide invaluable insights into lab performance, sample...