LIMS Blog

What Is the Right LIMS for Your Lab? Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) were originally created to manage simple processes, essentially tracking and controlling workflows. Over the years, LIMS have continued to evolve and improve, encompassing many aspects of what is needed for successful lab management. Today’s LIMS offerings have the ability to integrate with...

Have you ever accidentally copied the wrong index sequence onto your next-generation sequencing (NGS) sample tracking sheet? Are you unsure which well you used from an index plate? How about mistakenly including two samples in a pool with the same index or barcode sequence? Worse yet, maybe you didn’t recognize you made one of these mistakes...

During the current pandemic, the ability to rapidly acquire, test, and report samples for the novel coronavirus has been essential for labs’ survival. Every COVID-19 testing lab demands a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) to coordinate the huge influx of samples. For any lab to quickly test and report samples, their sample management software must...

An article in the June 18, 2020 edition of the journal Nature Biotechnology details a remarkable project at the  Innovative Genomics Institute at University of California, Berkeley (UCB): converting a research lab into a CLIA-certified COVID-19 testing lab in just three weeks. In this blog post, Bryan Warf, Third Wave Analytics Principal Scientist and project...