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Protein Information Management System (design 2005, developement ended circa 2012)

Features

• Sample management and tracking
• Experiment and project management
• Query tools
• Workflow management
• Results recording and analysis
• Reporting
• Inventory management
• Document management

See PiMS_features for more details

PIMS is used from a web browser

No client software to install (perhaps plugins) Windows, Macintosh and Linux clients

PIMS requires a web and database server

Web server Apache Tomcat Development on free PostgreSQL Now available for Oracle Windows and Linux servers

Technologies used

Java, Hibernate, JUnit, BioJava, dot, batik, AJAX ...

Further references

• Why_PIMS

• ["The Protein Information Management System (PiMS): a generic tool for any structural biology research laboratory" C. Morris, A. Pajon, S. L. Griffiths, E. Daniel, M. Savitsky, B. Lin, J. M. Diprose, A. Wilter da Silva, K. Pilicheva, P. Troshin, J. van Niekerk, N. Isaacs, J. Naismith, C. Nave, R. Blake, K. S. Wilson, D. I. Stuart, K. Henrick and R. M. Esnouf] (http://scripts.iucr.org/cgi-bin/paper?S0907444911007943)

• "Recording information on protein complexes in an information management system", Savitsky, Marc; Diprose, Jonathan M.; Morris, Chris; Griffiths, Susanne L.; Daniel, Edward; Lin, Bill; Daenke, Susan; Bishop, Benjamin; Siebold, Christian; Wilson, Keith S.; Blake, Richard; Stuart, David I.; Esnouf, Robert M. (August 2011)

• "PIMS sequencing extension: a laboratory information management system for DNA sequencing facilities" Peter Troshin, Vincent LG Postis, Denise Ashworth, Stephen A Baldwin, Michael J McPherson and Geoffrey J Barton

• http://www.limswiki.org/index.php/PiMS