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Bika LIMS 2.0 development starts

Bika Lab Systems has started development on Bika LIMS 2.0 for Quantum Analytical Services. Implementation is scheduled for March 2007 and release as Bika trunk on the GPL soon after, followed by upgrades to the Bika branches

Bika LIMS 2 'Enhanced Functionality'

The Bika 2.0 specification was aggregated from both analysis of Quantum's requirements and discussions in the Bika open source community

New features and functionality include:

Analysis Request (AR) profiles per sample type and client - regularly requested analysis sets are grouped in profiles for one click AR creation
Worksheet (WS) templates - one click creation of standard worksheets per laboratory workstation, automating sample type and analyses selection, analyst, instrument and tray size, inclusion of calibration samples, standards, blanks and duplicates
Sample custody workflow and disposal alerts
Full Quality Control suite, including Standards and Standards Supplier maintenance, the use of blanks and duplicate samples, instrument calibrations and graphical reporting on trends, distribution curves, relative % error and inter-laboratory proficiency testing results
AR and WS rejection and re-testing workflows
Product specifications and out of range alerts applied per sample type and client. Clients maintain their own criteria
Enhanced accounts interface including credit checks before accepting new requests for analyses
Bulk Analysis Request creation and Results publication per comma delimited file. Logs of imports
Granular audit trails. Of Samples, Analyses, Analysis requests, Worksheets, Orders, Invoices, Web content edits
Digitally signed Prints as publication option
True working hours calendar to take public holidays and non-working hours into consideration when calculating late analysis alerts
A host of smaller improvements

'Recent' analyses listings
'All' option for mass completion of Analysis Request forms
CC'ing of results to third parties
Invoicing of third parties
Comma delimited query results exports
All displayed e-mail addresses live

New reports and graphs

Turnaround times not met
QC trends
QC standard distribution
QC duplicates - relative percentage error
Graphing of existing reports

SQL hybridisation to enhance performance during peak periods and better load balancing on dual processor servers
Migration to Plone 2.5

Further enhancements to CMS functionality available since Bika 1.2:

Integrated Help centre including amongst others site specific FAQs, Manuals, Tutorials and Instruction movies to facilitate ongoing training, reference and revision. See Bika's Help Centre
Full web Content Management (CMS). All lab related documentation prepared in private and published to the LIMS portal from a singular laboratory repository and application, the LIMS. All documents, hyper-linked for easy retrieval, SOPs, guides, standards, methods, safety regulation, news and events, promotions, time sheets and leave forms, instrument manuals, etc

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