LIMS or Laboratory Information Management Systems are designed to run labs, function as a collaborative platform for researchers as well as a laboratory notebook.
LIMS boosts teams productivity, organize lab assets and resources, improve collaborative teamwork and keep organized records in digital forms that eases researchers and technician work.
Our topic today is about eLabFTW and why do we recommend it as LIMS?
eLabFTW is a self-hosted completely free open-source (Libre) laboratory information management system. It's designed as a general-purpose laboratory system but proven reliable in medical and biology laboratories, it also works exceptionally for experimental research laboratories.
In different sentence that we borrowed from eLabFTW, It is an electronic lab notebook manager for research teams, Which makes it well suited for universities, tinkerers or biotech companies.
Why do we recommend eLabFTW?
Easy to install with multiple installation options.
Highly customizable
Large supported community of developers and advanced users
Regularly updated
Secure
Scalable
Features
Open-source (AGPL License)
Supports multiple languages
Cross-platform (Windows, Linux and macOS)
Resources efficient (RAM and processing power)
Responsive designs which means it works on mobile and tablet screens
Inventory management that works with everything
Scheduler and reminder
Experiments management tools
Operations and procedures manager
User manager
Built-in access management
Advanced import and export manager
Supports PDF, ZIP, CSV and JSON exports
Rest API
Images upload
Chemdoodle integration for drawing molecules
Style and interface customization manager
Custom shortcuts
Unlimited number of users and records
SAML2 authentication with IDM "Identity Management" external provider support
Docker support
Built-in protection against CSRF, XSS and bruteforce login
Automated security scanning
Advanced security configuration
Cloud install and on-premise install
Supports all popular browsers with minimal resource's consumption: Google Chrome, Chromium, Mozilla Firefox, Safari (macOS)
Smooth performance on mobile browsers Safari (iOS: iPhone/ iPad) and Android (Chrome).
Install eLabFTW
Requirements
RAM 512 MB (1 GB is recommended)
300 MB disk space
eLabFTW can be installed using docker on almost any server or desktop computer. It also can be deployed on the cloud hosting as DigitalOcean and Nanobox.io.
Installation options:
Windows (Docker)
macOS (Docker)
Linux server (Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Fedora, openSUSE, Arch Linux)
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