PMID- 30698777
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20190604
LR  - 20210924
IS  - 1758-0463 (Electronic)
IS  - 1758-0463 (Linking)
VI  - 2019
DP  - 2019 Jan 1
TI  - One tool to find them all: a case of data integration and querying in a 
      distributed LIMS platform.
LID - 10.1093/database/baz004 [doi]
LID - baz004
AB  - In the last years, Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) have been 
      growing from mere inventory systems into increasingly comprehensive software 
      platforms, spanning functionalities as diverse as data search, annotation and 
      analysis. Our institution started in 2011 a LIMS project named the Laboratory 
      Assistant Suite with the purpose of assisting researchers throughout all of their 
      laboratory activities, providing graphical tools to support decision-making tasks 
      and building complex analyses on integrated data. The modular architecture of the 
      system exploits multiple databases with different technologies. To provide an 
      efficient and easy tool for retrieving information of interest, we developed the 
      Multi-Dimensional Data Manager (MDDM). By means of intuitive interfaces, 
      scientists can execute complex queries without any knowledge of query languages 
      or database structures, and easily integrate heterogeneous data stored in 
      multiple databases. Together with the other software modules making up the 
      platform, the MDDM has helped improve the overall quality of the data, 
      substantially reduced the time spent with manual data entry and retrieval and 
      ultimately broadened the spectrum of interconnections among the data, offering 
      novel perspectives to the biomedical analysts.
FAU - Grand, Alberto
AU  - Grand A
AD  - Candiolo Cancer Institute - FPO IRCCS, Strada Provinciale, Candiolo, Italy.
FAU - Geda, Emanuele
AU  - Geda E
AD  - Candiolo Cancer Institute - FPO IRCCS, Strada Provinciale, Candiolo, Italy.
FAU - Mignone, Andrea
AU  - Mignone A
AD  - Candiolo Cancer Institute - FPO IRCCS, Strada Provinciale, Candiolo, Italy.
FAU - Bertotti, Andrea
AU  - Bertotti A
AD  - Department of Oncology, University of Torino.
AD  - Candiolo Cancer Institute - FPO IRCCS, Strada Provinciale, Candiolo, Italy.
FAU - Fiori, Alessandro
AU  - Fiori A
AD  - Candiolo Cancer Institute - FPO IRCCS, Strada Provinciale, Candiolo, Italy.
LA  - eng
GR  - 724748/ERC_/European Research Council/International
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
DEP - 20190101
PL  - England
TA  - Database (Oxford)
JT  - Database : the journal of biological databases and curation
JID - 101517697
SB  - IM
MH  - Animals
MH  - Biomedical Research
MH  - *Clinical Laboratory Information Systems
MH  - *Database Management Systems
MH  - *Databases, Factual
MH  - Humans
MH  - Information Storage and Retrieval
MH  - Mice
MH  - *Software
MH  - User-Computer Interface
PMC - PMC6352757
EDAT- 2019/01/31 06:00
MHDA- 2019/06/05 06:00
PMCR- 2019/01/30
CRDT- 2019/01/31 06:00
PHST- 2018/09/19 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2019/01/07 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2019/01/31 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2019/01/31 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2019/06/05 06:00 [medline]
PHST- 2019/01/30 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 5304001 [pii]
AID - baz004 [pii]
AID - 10.1093/database/baz004 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Database (Oxford). 2019 Jan 1;2019:baz004. doi: 10.1093/database/baz004.