Parkour LIMS

Description

Parkour LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) is a software package for sample processing and quality management of next-generation sequencing (NGS) data and samples. Besides extensive functionality, most of existing LIMS are missing electronic laboratory notebook aspects to support, organize, and ultimately standardize initial laboratory-intensive sample preparation steps. The LIMS was designed to coordinate laboratory work by clearly structuring tasks and facilitate high-quality sample preparation. Deep sequencing users, laboratory personnel, and data managers will benefit from using Parkour LIMS as a central laboratory and quality management platform.

Main Features

• Online sequencing request submission
• Real-time status tracking
• Coordinated sample preparation and instrument loading
• In-depth support of NGS workflows
• Quality control
• Reporting
• Interactive statistics on workflow usage
• Automated invoicing
• Standardized sample sheet generation
• Metadata export capabilities
• Highly customizable and extensible

Documentation

Documentation and user manual can be viewed here.

Installation

All installation steps are described in the documentation.

Demo instance

A demonstration instance is available at http://parkour-demo.ie-freiburg.mpg.de. The following accounts are available on that instance:

• A typical "staff" account with the username "[email protected]" and password "parkour-staff".
• A typical "admin" account with the username "[email protected]" and password "parkour-admin".

Please note that the instance is reset every 12 hours!