2011

Bika LIMS SQL community contribution

In the biggest contribution from the Bika Open Source community to date, John Yeko released a SQL back-end for Inkosi Bika LIMS 2.2. A public test installation is now available. Unsolicited, unreal

Bika Ubuntu installer community contribution

In another big contribution from the Bika LIMS Open Source community, Jascha Silberman of the TH Wildau University of Applied Sciences, developed an Ubuntu installer for Inkosi LIMS and made it available for free on the General Public License

Bika Health presented to CCAS

In a recent talk titled “Strengthening Trough the Development of Laboratory Information Systems”, Dr. Christoph H. Larsen presented Bika's LIMS for public health and clinical laboratories to the Caribbean Cytometry & Analytical Society (CCAS), the Caribbean HIV/AIDS Training Network (CHART) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) at their 2nd Joint Meeting in Barbados under the banner “Cost Effective Management and Quality Laboratory Monitoring of Individuals with HIV and Coinfection with TB”

III International Workshop on e-Health in Emerging Economies (Luxembourg, from 2011-04-06 09:00 to 2011-04-08 17:00)

The International Workshop on e-Health in Emerging Economies - IWEEE - is a biannual congress held in Canary Islands, Spain and in Brazil. Because of their geographical locations, Canary Islands links Africa, Europe and the Americas, while Brazil concentrates on the Latin America reality.

Dr. Chris Larsen joins Bika Health Foundation

The Bika team is proud to announce that Dr. Chris Larsen accepted an invitation to become a member of the Bika Health Foundation and we are looking forward to his continued contributions towards the Foundation's goal of sustainable LIMS in public health laboratories at resource-poor clinics

Interlab 1.3 released

The South African Wine Laboratory Association, SAWLA, over a period of months, sponsored a number of incremental improvements and new features to Interlab, Bika's web based LIMS for inter-laboratory proficiency testing. These are bundled in this release

CHART-CCAS-CDC 3rd Joint Meeting (Montego Bay, Jamaica, from 2011-08-21 09:00 to 2011-08-26 17:00)

 

LINDI 2011 (Budapest, Hungary, from 2011-08-25 09:00 to 2011-08-27 17:00)

3rd IEEE International Symposium on Logistics and Industrial Informatics

Bika at AfriHealth 2011

Bika Health Foundation's Dr Chris Larsen presents a talk 'Addressing the fragile environment of e-health in resource-limited settings' at AfriHealth 2011, Nairobi, Kenya tomorrow. AfriHealth brings together researchers, medical practitioners and information technology personnel to share information on the use of ICT to improve healthcare in Africa and the practical mobilisation of healthcare projects

Bika LIMS 3 into view

An on-line Bika LIMS 3 alpha release was made available on Plone 4.1 for peer review - looking very good indeed and showcasing further flexibility and automation

Bika succeeds in Bio-Informatics laboratory

A master’s thesis using Inkosi Bika LIMS, “Information Management in the Molecular Biology Lab: Wiki and LIMS” was successfully completed by Jascha Silbermann at the Research unit for Molecular Biology and Functional Genomics at TH Wildau University of Applied Sciences. Bika LIMS has thus far been perceived mainly as leading Open Source chemistry LIMS with applications in agriculture, food and beverages, environmental monitoring and water quality management.

Bika Health at IWEEE III

Lemoene presented Health, Bika's LIMS for public health laboratories, on behalf of the Bika Health Foundation at the 3rd International Workshop for e-Health in Emerging Economies, Luxembourg, 6 April, in a talk "Open Source laboratory management in resource-poor settings"

Inkosi LIMS 2.3 released

Inkosi Bika LIMS 2.3.2 is available for download and features a number of enhancements and performance improvements aggregated from customisations sponsored by Bika clients and ongoing research and development

5th International Workshop on e-Health in Emerging Economies (Granada, from 2012-01-11 08:00 to 2012-01-11 17:00)

The International Workshop on e-Health in Emerging Economies - IWEEE - is a biannual meeting held in Europe and in Latin America. Because of their geographical locations, Spain links Africa, Europe and the Americas, while Brazil concentrates on the Latin America reality