{"term":{"id":"08084","title":"laboratory information management system","longtitle":"IUPAC Gold Book - laboratory information management system","doi":"10.1351\/goldbook.08084","code":"08084","status":"current","acronym":"<em>acronyms<\/em>: LIMS, LIS","synonym":"<em>synonym<\/em>: laboratory information system","definitions":[{"id":1,"text":"Information system which can provide services to one or more measuring systems.\n","notes":{"1":"Services include the control of automated analyses and collecting, processing, storing, and managing of data.","2":"LIMS functionality can include sample registration and tracking (through barcodes, chips, etc.), electronic laboratory notebooks, report generation, quality control, and financial control.","3":"In laboratory medicine, the term \"Laboratory Information System\" is common."},"sources":["PAC, 2021, 93, 997. 'Metrological and quality concepts in analytical chemistry (IUPAC Recommendations 2021)' on page 1029 (https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1515\/pac-2019-0819)"]}],"altoutputs":{"html":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/08084\/html","xml":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/08084\/xml","plain":"https:\/\/goldbook.iupac.org\/terms\/view\/08084\/plain"},"citation":"Citation: 'laboratory information management system' in IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology, 5th ed. International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry; 2025. Online version 5.0.0, 2025. 10.1351\/goldbook.08084","license":"The IUPAC Gold Book is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike CC BY-SA 4.0 International (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/) for individual terms.","collection":"If you are interested in licensing the Gold Book for commercial use, please contact the IUPAC Executive Director at executivedirector@iupac.org .","disclaimer":"The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) is continuously reviewing and, where needed, updating terms in the Compendium of Chemical Terminology (the IUPAC Gold Book). Users of these terms are encouraged to include the version of a term with its use and to check regularly for updates to term definitions that you are using.","accessed":"2026-08-04T12:46:25+00:00"}}