Some of the most popular discussions in the LIMS Forum

Posted by: John H. Jones

The LIMSforum is a user discussion group located on Linkedin.  The group has nearly 25,000 members, making it the largest and most popular user’s group devoted to all topics in LIMS and Laboratory Informatics.  If you are not already a member you can join it at www.limsforum.com.  The group is open to everyone and the members are very helpful in answering questions and holding useful discussions.

Here is a list of some of the most popular and useful discussions:

 

• Interactive Periodic Table – Almost Web 3.0! – this has 53 comments

• Will Cloud Computing make a commodity of LIMS & IT in general? – 9 comments

• I’m looking for flexible Reporting Solutions against ThermoFisher Sample Manager 9.x Any recommandations from this Group? – 9 comments

• LIMS in Brazil – 10 comments

• Achieving a fully integrated, data, information and Knowledge management environment is this really possible?? – 28 comments

• LIMS in manufacturing seems to me to have a negative trend – 13 comments

• Any suggestions for a LIMS to be used in manufacturing, QC, and packaging processes? Preferably compatible with common software and capabilities to communicate with other information systems. – 15 comments

• Do we need a new term to descibe systems that manage Laboratory Information? – 110 comments

• What are some trends that LIMS consultants are seeing in the Laboratory Informatics marketplace when it comes to the consulting business? – 11 comments

• Can anyone suggest a good compromise LIMS solution to manage analytical and bioanalytical processes? – 8 comments

• Data Visualization can be an important LIMS tool – 7 comments

 

There are tons of other great discussions going on in the group and there are a lot of job postings as well under the jobs tab.  The group is actively monitored and managed so that only valid, on-topic discussions take place in the discussion area while promotional postings are relegated to the “Promotions menu”.  This active, on-topic, non-commercial discussion group is what has made LIMSforum the largest and most popular discussion group within 2 years of it’s inception.

The LIMSforum was created on June 28, 2009 and as of the writing of this blog posting, it has 24,598 members and we are growing at about 1,500 new members per month.  Also there are a number of subgroups that are focused on things like Cloud Computing, Chromatography, Spectroscopy, Social Media, Healthcare, Life Sciences and more…

Be sure to check out all of these discussions and subgroups and feel free to post your own questions and invite others you know to join in.