Introduction

Introduction

Parkour LIMS supports sample processing laboratories, dealing with thousands of samples per year, with laboratory management, sample documentation, tracking, and evaluation. The LIMS has a web-based interface to be accessed by different user groups, that'll profit from the software's functionality. Any active user (see 2.2 permissions) can access the software, create new requests for Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) from the Libraries & Samples page, follow in real-time the status of the request over the different stages of the workflow, store any request related data for documentation, and export request metadata as an RO-Crate package (see Metadata Export). Users with staff permission and higher (see 2.2 permissions) can access any part of the software to edit and process requests and samples through the different stages of the workflow: Libraries & Samples, Incoming Libraries and Samples, Index Generator, Preparation, Pooling, Load Flowcells, Invoicing, Runs Statistics, Sequenced Samples Statistics, Usage, and Duties. Access to the administrators area allows dynamic content adjustment as well as user management without any software programming knowledge.

The LIMS's general principles are a simple yet functional web interface, ease of use, user input validation, and fast data processing. Interestingly for software developers, Parkour's dynamic structure allows for any program adjustments or implementation of new features into the existing workflow. Furthermore the program can be extended to support other than NGS workflows. Basically any samples processing laboratory can profits from the usage of Parkour as central laboratory management platform.

Sections of Parkour LIMS available for users with permissions "Active" and "Staff":

	Active	Staff
Libraries & Samples	X	X
Incoming Libraries/Samples		X
Index Generator		X
Preparation		X
Pooling		X
Load Flowcells		X
Invoicing		X
Usage		X
Runs Statistics		X
Sequenced Samples Statistics		X
Duties		X

Note

Requests are created and managed from Libraries & Samples, which now doubles as the request list (there is no separate "Requests" section). See Requests.

Note

Users with the permission active will see only Libraries & Samples.