Best laboratory information system software
- Months until the freezers are full
- 9
- Vials the freezers hold
- 23,328
- Occupancy today, percent
- 64
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The best laboratory information system software for a small lab is decided in the freezer as much as on the bench, because the sample record only earns its keep when someone asks where a sample is and the answer is a freezer, a rack, a box and a position rather than a search. Three freezers of eight racks of twelve boxes of 81 vials hold 23,328 vials, and a lab adding 900 a month against 15,000 stored has nine months before it buys a fourth freezer or starts disposing; software that does not know that is a spreadsheet with a login. This guide walks how to choose between LIS products on the record they keep for a small lab: the sample's place, its status, its retention and its disposal. The free sample storage sheet on this site works the capacity and the months to full with no account.
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The sample's place, to the position
Judge a product on whether a sample's location is a freezer, rack, box and position it can print on a label, and whether moving a box moves every sample in it. Storage software that keeps a free-text location has not solved the problem it was bought for. The storage sheet works how many positions the lab has and how fast it uses them.
Retention and disposal, on a schedule
Every sample carries a retention period from its client or the lab's policy, and the software has to say which samples leave retention this month and which boxes come free. The retention sheet on this site works both from the intake rate; the software's job is to turn the arithmetic into a disposal list with names on it.
Status, from receipt to report
Booked in, in test, reported, invoiced, disposed: the best software shows one sample's status without a query and every sample's status as a list. Ask the vendor for a screenshot of a single sample with all of it on one page. The paid plan here keeps exactly that, and exports it.
Best laboratory information system software: common questions
Which laboratory information system software is best for a small lab?
The one that keeps a sample's place to the position, its status from receipt to disposal and its retention on a schedule, and computes the capacity and the months to full rather than leaving them to a spreadsheet. This site publishes no ranking; it publishes the sheets that show what the software must do.
How do I work out when the freezers will be full?
Freezers times racks times boxes times vials per box is the capacity; capacity less vials stored is the free positions; free positions over vials added per month is the months to full. The free sheet works all four from six figures with no account.
Can Limslane track storage for a small lab?
Limslane Pro keeps each sample's freezer, rack, box and position against the sample and works the storage sheet on the live count. It has no freezer monitoring, no barcode hardware and no courier integration; a lab that needs those needs an enterprise product.
Limslane Pro
Keeping what you make
The sheets are free forever. Pro turns them into the record: every sample from receipt to report with its status, every result against the sample it belongs to, every reagent lot with its expiry, every instrument with its next calibration, your lab's name and logo on the printed sheets, no watermark, and an export when the auditor or the client asks.
- Download as PDF
- No Limslane watermark
- Save every sheet and reopen it later
- Your lab's name and logo on the paperwork
- Export every sheet and every record in one go
- Calibration-due, lot-expiry and result-ready reminders emailed to the lab and the client
- Connect your own Stripe account and get paid online
- Connect your QuickBooks Online or Xero
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On the worked example, three freezers of eight racks of twelve boxes of 81 vials hold 23,328 vials; 15,000 stored is 64% occupancy, 8,328 free positions, and at 900 vials a month the freezers are full in nine months.
Lims sample management (Months until the freezers are full): 9, Limslane, worked example.
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