PMID- 25159034 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20141108 LR - 20211021 IS - 1471-2105 (Electronic) IS - 1471-2105 (Linking) VI - 15 IP - 1 DP - 2014 Aug 27 TI - MendeLIMS: a web-based laboratory information management system for clinical genome sequencing. PG - 290 LID - 10.1186/1471-2105-15-290 [doi] LID - 290 AB - BACKGROUND: Large clinical genomics studies using next generation DNA sequencing require the ability to select and track samples from a large population of patients through many experimental steps. With the number of clinical genome sequencing studies increasing, it is critical to maintain adequate laboratory information management systems to manage the thousands of patient samples that are subject to this type of genetic analysis. RESULTS: To meet the needs of clinical population studies using genome sequencing, we developed a web-based laboratory information management system (LIMS) with a flexible configuration that is adaptable to continuously evolving experimental protocols of next generation DNA sequencing technologies. Our system is referred to as MendeLIMS, is easily implemented with open source tools and is also highly configurable and extensible. MendeLIMS has been invaluable in the management of our clinical genome sequencing studies. CONCLUSIONS: We maintain a publicly available demonstration version of the application for evaluation purposes at http://mendelims.stanford.edu. MendeLIMS is programmed in Ruby on Rails (RoR) and accesses data stored in SQL-compliant relational databases. Software is freely available for non-commercial use at http://dna-discovery.stanford.edu/software/mendelims/. FAU - Grimes, Susan M AU - Grimes SM FAU - Ji, Hanlee P AU - Ji HP AD - Stanford Genome Technology Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. genomics_ji@stanford.edu. LA - eng GR - RC2HG005570/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/United States GR - P01 HG000205/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/United States GR - HHMI/Howard Hughes Medical Institute/United States GR - 2P01HG000205/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/United States GR - DK56339/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States GR - P30 DK056339/DK/NIDDK NIH HHS/United States GR - RC2 HG005570/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20140827 PL - England TA - BMC Bioinformatics JT - BMC bioinformatics JID - 100965194 SB - IM MH - *Clinical Laboratory Techniques MH - Databases, Genetic MH - Gene Library MH - Genetic Testing MH - Genomics/*methods MH - Health Information Management/*methods MH - High-Throughput Nucleotide Sequencing MH - Humans MH - *Internet MH - Medical Informatics/*methods MH - Sequence Analysis, DNA/*methods MH - *Software MH - User-Computer Interface PMC - PMC4155081 EDAT- 2014/08/28 06:00 MHDA- 2014/11/09 06:00 PMCR- 2014/08/27 CRDT- 2014/08/28 06:00 PHST- 2013/06/11 00:00 [received] PHST- 2014/08/18 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2014/08/28 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2014/08/28 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2014/11/09 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2014/08/27 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 1471-2105-15-290 [pii] AID - 6555 [pii] AID - 10.1186/1471-2105-15-290 [doi] PST - epublish SO - BMC Bioinformatics. 2014 Aug 27;15(1):290. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-15-290.