Re: [MLUG] LIMS, ELNs and such

["Mark Rages" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 11/18/06, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> Thanks, Jon and Vern.  The thing for me is that I have to decide quickly
> and I don't trust any corporate vendor to be accurate about what they will
> do for me.  We will want to do some things that they probably haven't done
> before and even if they can do what we want, we'll have to learn how to
> use their software to be able to do it and learning the software takes
> time and it causes vendor lockin.  This reminds me of the AP Thought for
> Today from just a few days ago:
>
>     "The line of least resistance was always the most difficult line in the
>     long run."  -- Peter Cheyney, English author (1896-1951).
>
> Also, despite the probable long-term scientific and public-health benefit
> of this project, I am personally interested only because I would be
> working on open source software development.  If we go turnkey, that
> mostly ruins it for me.  I also think that we will be doing a better
> thing, maybe even in the short term, if we develop some of our own code.
>
> Mike

In my experience, off-the-shelf solutions can give you 80% of what you
need.  And building-your-own can give you 95% (but it will take three
times as longer to develop than you think it will).

The quickest customized solution would be an open-source product with
a clean, easily-modified codebase.

Have you looked for an open-source LIMS?  Googling that phrase found
several interesting projects, such as the Plone-based Bika:
http://bika.sourceforge.net/ or the php (and broken, but that's
redundant) HalX: http://halx.genomics.eu.org/

Regards,
Mark
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