PMID- 21631415 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20120327 LR - 20211020 IS - 1875-5402 (Electronic) IS - 1386-2073 (Print) IS - 1386-2073 (Linking) VI - 14 IP - 9 DP - 2011 Nov TI - Challenges in small screening laboratories: implementing an on-demand laboratory information management system. PG - 742-8 AB - The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, part of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, includes a laboratory devoted to High Content Analysis (HCA) of neurons. The goal of the laboratory is to uncover signaling pathways, genes, compounds, or drugs that can be used to promote nerve growth. HCA permits the quantification of neuronal morphology, including the lengths and numbers of axons. HCA of various libraries on primary neurons requires a team-based approach, a variety of process steps and complex manipulations of cells and libraries to obtain meaningful results. HCA itself produces vast amounts of information including images, well-based data and cell-based phenotypic measures. Documenting and integrating the experimental workflows, library data and extensive experimental results is challenging. For academic laboratories generating large data sets from experiments involving thousands of perturbagens, a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) is the data tracking solution of choice. With both productivity and efficiency as driving rationales, the Miami Project has equipped its HCA laboratory with an On Demand or Software As A Service (SaaS) LIMS to ensure the quality of its experiments and workflows. The article discusses how the system was selected and integrated into the laboratory. The advantages of a SaaS based LIMS over a client-server based system are described. CI - (c) 2011 Bentham Science Publishers FAU - Lemmon, Vance P AU - Lemmon VP AD - Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, Center for Computational Sciences, John P. Hussman Institute for Human Genomics University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, 1095 NW 14th Ter., LPLC, Rm 4-16 R-48, Miami, Fl 33136-1060, USA. vlemmon@med.miami.edu FAU - Jia, Yuanyuan AU - Jia Y FAU - Shi, Yan AU - Shi Y FAU - Holbrook, S Douglas AU - Holbrook SD FAU - Bixby, John L AU - Bixby JL FAU - Buchser, William AU - Buchser W LA - eng GR - R01 HD057632/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States GR - NS069488/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/United States GR - RC2 HG005668/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/United States GR - RC2 HG005668-01/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/United States GR - RC2 NS069488-01/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 NS059866/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 NS059866-03/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/United States GR - NS059866/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/United States GR - HG005668/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/United States GR - RC2 NS069488/NS/NINDS NIH HHS/United States GR - R01 HD057632-03/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States GR - HD057521/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S. PL - United Arab Emirates TA - Comb Chem High Throughput Screen JT - Combinatorial chemistry & high throughput screening JID - 9810948 SB - IM MH - *Clinical Laboratory Information Systems MH - Humans MH - Laboratories/*organization & administration MH - Paralysis/therapy PMC - PMC3289069 MID - NIHMS358403 COIS- Conflict of Interest: The LemBix lab is a beta site for Thermo Fisher Scientific Nautilus LIMS-on-Demand. Doug Holbrook is an employee of Thermo Fisher Scientific. EDAT- 2011/06/03 06:00 MHDA- 2012/03/28 06:00 PMCR- 2012/11/01 CRDT- 2011/06/03 06:00 PHST- 2010/10/13 00:00 [received] PHST- 2011/02/04 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2011/05/24 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2011/06/03 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2011/06/03 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2012/03/28 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2012/11/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - BSP/CCHTS/E- Pub/00186 [pii] AID - 10.2174/138620711796957161 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Comb Chem High Throughput Screen. 2011 Nov;14(9):742-8. doi: 10.2174/138620711796957161.