Re: [MLUG] LIMS, ELNs and such

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Mark Rages wrote:

> 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).

I believe you.  Three times as long will still work for me.


> 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/

This is a good idea, but the "About HalX" page is completely uninformative 
and the HalX "Documentation" link returns a parse error.  This isn't 
inspiring a lot of confidence in their project!  ;-)  Bika is also pretty 
new, I guess.  They have 88 messages in the archive for the user email 
distribution list.  On the other hand, I think Bika has a lot of 
functionality that we can use, so we'll probably try to do something with 
it.

Thanks for the idea, Mark.

Mike

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