T.I.M.S: TaqMan Information Management System, tools to organize data flow in a genotyping laboratory

Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) genotyping is a major activity in biomedical research. The Taqman technology is one of the most commonly used approaches. It produces large amounts of data that are difficult to process by hand. Laboratories not equipped with a Laboratory Information Management S...

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Published in:BMC bioinformatics 2005-10, Vol.6 (1), p.246-246, Article 246
Main Authors: Monnier, Stéphanie, Cox, David G, Albion, Tim, Canzian, Federico
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Clinical Laboratory Information Systems - instrumentation
Genotype
Information Management - instrumentation
Information Storage and Retrieval - methods
Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide - genetics
Programming Languages
Software
Statistics as Topic - methods
User-Computer Interface
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Summary:Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) genotyping is a major activity in biomedical research. The Taqman technology is one of the most commonly used approaches. It produces large amounts of data that are difficult to process by hand. Laboratories not equipped with a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) need tools to organize the data flow. We propose a package of Visual Basic programs focused on sample management and on the parsing of input and output TaqMan files. The code is written in Visual Basic, embedded in the Microsoft Office package, and it allows anyone to have access to those tools, without any programming skills and with basic computer requirements. We have created useful tools focused on management of TaqMan genotyping data, a critical issue in genotyping laboratories without a more sophisticated and expensive system, such as a LIMS.
ISSN:1471-2105
1471-2105
DOI:10.1186/1471-2105-6-246