LIMS 3.2 Beta. Upcoming features

Much brewing in the Bika pot. Advances in branches Bika Cannabis, Bika Water and in Bika Health, distributed customised lab implementations in Zimbabwe and post Ebola outbreak surveillance, Liberia. Bika LIMS 3.2 is up for public Beta testing, please assist with your feedback.


Bika LIMS 3.2 Release Curation 29 August 2019, Cape Town Major release curation job under way by Ramon at Riding Bytes. Number of closed tickets breached a century some time ago. Bika LIMS 3.2.1b3 contains a complete new version of the Analysis Request Create form with performance enhancements. See User list announcement for upgrade information. Environmental Management Bika breaking ground for the environment in a high volume pilot on some very polluted acid water entering the environment from depleted coal pits. Lion country. A hard push working with best pollution experts by Campbell and Lemoene (Bika Lab Systems), saw Bika Water, based on LIMS 3.2, assist the lab in passing a recent ISO 17025 audit with flying colours. Improvements include ISO ready multi AR COA, multi-method instruments, bi-directional Interfaces for the Lachat FIA, Vista Pro ICP, Metler auto-titrator, many smaller improvements, results treatment with significant figures, LOR, decimal precision, and calculation formula test widget. Medicinal Cannabis Mike and Lunga (Webtide), Alex, Lemoene (Bika Lab Systems). Under pressure as sample volumes trebled in states where recreational cannabis was legalised. As a controlled substance, forensic standard Sample Chain of custody is required. We can well see this functionality applied system-wide where valuable, hazardous or infectious samples are handled. Improvements: Sample Chain of Custody COC, Unit Conversion, suite of Shimadzu Spectrometers, GC, MS, QQQ, HPLC, LC, ICP interfaces, Lab and Client licensing, the single AR COA is of some beauty. New flexible ID generator, client departments, cannabis attributes.	EID, VL and Ebola Clinical Cases Major public health and distributed lab customisations for Zimbabwe Ministry of Health and Child Care; post Ebola outbreak system-building in Liberia. Major performance enhancements by Jordi and Pau at Naralabs and case specific customisations for HIV Viral load, Early Infant and Ebola virus detection with reflex testing rules engine. Worksheets were adapted for multiple instrument channels to facilitate GeneExpert cartridge based testing. The GeneExpert Interface was developed by Austin in Monrovia under the direction of the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Implementations, in Tappita district laboratory at first, by Tendai from the Zimbabwe NMRL. In Liberia, workflow changes were required to accommodate unique sample handling processes for bio-safety level 4 labs. To allow for the capture of Liberia's 'Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response' intake form, a customised front end captures 38 custom fields, linking directly to AR flow. Customisations for Zimbabwe were also deployed in the Tippita clinical bacteriology lab, and soon the national reference lab *The Love of Liberty brought us here*

Bika LIMS 3.2 Release Curation

Open Source LIMS for chemistry and microbiology x 90

29 August 2019, Cape Town

Major release curation job under way by Ramon at Riding Bytes. Number of closed tickets breached a century some time ago. Bika LIMS 3.2.1b3 contains a complete new version of the Analysis Request Create form with performance enhancements. See User list announcement for upgrade information.

Environmental Management

ISO 17025 ready

Bika breaking ground for the environment in a high volume pilot on some very polluted acid water entering the environment from depleted coal pits. Lion country. A hard push working with best pollution experts by Campbell and Lemoene (Bika Lab Systems), saw Bika Water, based on LIMS 3.2, assist the lab in passing a recent ISO 17025 audit with flying colours.

Improvements include ISO ready multi AR COA, multi-method instruments, bi-directional Interfaces for the Lachat FIA, Vista Pro ICP, Metler auto-titrator, many smaller improvements, results treatment with significant figures, LOR, decimal precision, and calculation formula test widget.

Medicinal Cannabis

Open Source LIMS for the Cannabis sector

Mike and Lunga (Webtide), Alex, Lemoene (Bika Lab Systems). Under pressure as sample volumes trebled in states where recreational cannabis was legalised.

As a controlled substance, forensic standard Sample Chain of custody is required. We can well see this functionality applied system-wide where valuable, hazardous or infectious samples are handled.

Improvements: Sample Chain of Custody COC, Unit Conversion, suite of Shimadzu Spectrometers, GC, MS, QQQ, HPLC, LC, ICP interfaces, Lab and Client licensing, the single AR COA is of some beauty. New flexible ID generator, client departments, cannabis attributes.

EID, VL and Ebola Clinical Cases

Open Source LIS for public and private health care labs x 90

Major public health and distributed lab customisations for Zimbabwe Ministry of Health and Child Care; post Ebola outbreak system-building in Liberia.

Major performance enhancements by Jordi and Pau at Naralabs and case specific customisations for HIV Viral load, Early Infant and Ebola virus detection with reflex testing rules engine. Worksheets were adapted for multiple instrument channels to facilitate GeneExpert cartridge based testing.

The GeneExpert Interface was developed by Austin in Monrovia under the direction of the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Implementations, in Tappita district laboratory at first, by Tendai from the Zimbabwe NMRL.

In Liberia, workflow changes were required to accommodate unique sample handling processes for bio-safety level 4 labs. To allow for the capture of Liberia's 'Integrated Disease Surveillance and Response' intake form, a customised front end captures 38 custom fields, linking directly to AR flow.

Customisations for Zimbabwe were also deployed in the Tippita clinical bacteriology lab, and soon the national reference lab

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The Love of Liberty brought us here