PMID- 16221298
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20060322
LR  - 20181113
IS  - 1471-2105 (Electronic)
IS  - 1471-2105 (Linking)
VI  - 6
DP  - 2005 Oct 12
TI  - T.I.M.S: TaqMan Information Management System, tools to organize data flow in a 
      genotyping laboratory.
PG  - 246
AB  - BACKGROUND: Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) genotyping is a major activity 
      in biomedical research. The Taqman technology is one of the most commonly used 
      approaches. It produces large amounts of data that are difficult to process by 
      hand. Laboratories not equipped with a Laboratory Information Management System 
      (LIMS) need tools to organize the data flow. RESULTS: We propose a package of 
      Visual Basic programs focused on sample management and on the parsing of input 
      and output TaqMan files. The code is written in Visual Basic, embedded in the 
      Microsoft Office package, and it allows anyone to have access to those tools, 
      without any programming skills and with basic computer requirements. CONCLUSION: 
      We have created useful tools focused on management of TaqMan genotyping data, a 
      critical issue in genotyping laboratories without a more sophisticated and 
      expensive system, such as a LIMS.
FAU - Monnier, Stephanie
AU  - Monnier S
AD  - International Agency for Research on Cancer, F-69372, Lyon, France. 
      monnier@iarc.fr
FAU - Cox, David G
AU  - Cox DG
FAU - Albion, Tim
AU  - Albion T
FAU - Canzian, Federico
AU  - Canzian F
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20051012
PL  - England
TA  - BMC Bioinformatics
JT  - BMC bioinformatics
JID - 100965194
SB  - IM
MH  - Clinical Laboratory Information Systems/*instrumentation
MH  - Genotype
MH  - Information Management/*instrumentation
MH  - Information Storage and Retrieval/methods
MH  - Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide/*genetics
MH  - Programming Languages
MH  - *Software
MH  - Statistics as Topic/methods
MH  - User-Computer Interface
PMC - PMC1266351
EDAT- 2005/10/14 09:00
MHDA- 2006/03/23 09:00
PMCR- 2005/10/12
CRDT- 2005/10/14 09:00
PHST- 2005/05/02 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2005/10/12 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2005/10/14 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2006/03/23 09:00 [medline]
PHST- 2005/10/14 09:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2005/10/12 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 1471-2105-6-246 [pii]
AID - 10.1186/1471-2105-6-246 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - BMC Bioinformatics. 2005 Oct 12;6:246. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-6-246.