Enfold Systems just released a Open Source LIMS based on Zope 3 (written in Python) and the python Object/Relational module, SQLObject.
SIP's Project Page is at the enfold systems website. It has flash demo's, screenshots and a link to Sample Inventory Program's Sourceforge Prroject It uses Postgresql but should work on MySQL and on Windows, OSX or *BSD. Link to download 1.0.2
The SIP application requires the Zope 3.0.x release of the Zope application server, PostgreSQL or Sybase Relational Database Servers and the Python 2.3.5 language runtime. Many integration tests exist for various aspects of the SIP application ranging from command line importing of samples and project configuration to CSV web based importing of sample modifications.
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I'm a LIMS whore too
Stew over at F & L tells us:
Bah - I hate it because it's true. This must be the new "every bioinformatician has to code at least one BLAST parser in their lifetime", now that the Bio* projects have taken care of that one.
In case anyone is wondering about MamboLIMS - I've had no time either to work on it further or to package it up as a custom Mambo install. If you're comfortable with the installation and configuration of Mambo and its components (DocMan, Simpleboard Forum and Facile Forms), package and instructions are here. It's in use in our lab and works pretty well according to my "beta testers".
Do you use this system or do
Do you use this system or do you work for Enfold PR ?
I am aware of Enfold as a Plone spin-off company (most of the lead developers work there ?) and also being quite active in the open source community. I have no problems posting this to the front page I'm just curious who is promoting the product (company or user) ?
Enfold Systems employee posted article
I'm Alan Runyan - one of the founders of Enfold Systems. We are promoting it and looking for others places to promote Sample Inventory Program to increase awareness in the bioscience domain. It's an excellent product and one of the first large scale Zope 3 applications. Some of the technology is used by Ubuntu's backoffice system. We are really proud to announce SIP's release. We also want to ask this community for feedback on the product and how/where we can get the word out to other people who are interesting in Open Source LIMS?
And yes we are very active in the Python, Zope, and Plone communities. Thanks for the recognition. Rarely do we get positive feedback saying "oh yeah and they are contributing to these communities. Being a company in Open Source often feels lonely.
we would love feedback about the product, alan runyan
SIP questions
Alan,
Any idea when install docs with more detail than the readme in the SIP tarball will become available? Also, any chance of Enfold setting up a demo system for punters to test without having to perform a local install? Any idea when the Qt client will be out?
Aaron.
Sample Inventory Program (SIP) Answers
Aaron,
Best place is to ask on the sip mailing list.
I just re-read the README documentation. Yes, if you have no clue about Zope3 and how to install software you would not have much success. There *is* some upside: There are 2 deadtree books on Zope 3!
Regarding punters i.e. online demo: you can try http://sip.houston.enfoldsystems.com with the login/password, gandalf/123
Regarding QT client, since that is being developed at SFBR and outside of Enfold Systems, I do not know. They are using it in production and it probably needs quite a bit of refactoring for general consumption.
The problem is that it takes a very long time to make software usable out-of-the-box. We are hoping to go for a grant and get the NIH to pony up money for us to create a windows installer that ships with postgresql. one click install. We are very successful with the Plone Windows installer -- as an example of ease-of-use.
Thanks for your questions,
Alan Runyan
Enfold Systems
SIP, an Open Source LIMS
zope 3.2 ?
Is SIP running under zope3.2 ?
I am just trying to see if I can set it up running , but I got ton's of messages, and the zope instance stopped. The meaningful messages was:
ZopeXMLConfigurationError: File "/var/lib/zope3/instance/1/lib/python/sip/services/appcontainerservice.zcml", line 3.2
ConfigurationError: ('Unknown directive', u'http://namespaces.zope.org/zope', u'serviceType')
It looks like the
Thanks.
As Alan suggests in the
As Alan suggests in the previous comment, the best place to ask these kinds of questions is via the SIP mailing list (I assume that is the right one ?).