Welcome to the home of the Moorea Biocode LIMS (Laboratory Information Management) Software. The Biocode software comprises everything you need to manage your lab and sequence analysis workflows. This wiki serves both as a repository for the plugins themselves (with release notes and links to downloads), and an extensive online manual. You can download the plugin by following the Getting Started instructions in the green section on the right. If you run into trouble, or want to unlock the full power of the LIMS, read through the blue manual section on the right hand side. See www.mooreabiocode.org for details of the Moorea Biocode Project.
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You will need to download three files, in addition to Geneious in order to use the Biocode plugin.
- The Biocode plugin itself
- The Biocode Genbank Submission plugin, which allows you to submit your completed contigs to Genbank.
- The MySQL Connector, which allows you to connect to FIMS and LIMS databases.
You can download Geneious from http://www.geneious.com.
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| See Getting Started for detailed instructions on how to install and configure the plugins in Geneious.
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Getting Help
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The Biocode plugins are complex, and while learning how to use them can seem like a daunting task, help is available. Your first port of call should be the introduction video, which walks you through the plugins. You can find a more detailed reference in the manual (available on the right of this page), and a list of frequently asked questions below.
A user community, and technical support is available from http://connect.barcodeoflife.org/group/lims
Here, you can engage with the wider community, get help from experienced users, and make suggestions about how to improve the plugins.
If you have and questions or suggestions that you don't want to post to the community, you can email support@mooreabiocode.org
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F.A.Q.
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Frequently asked questions will appear here shortly.
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Updates
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Plugin version 2.1 - May 13 2011
- Added a connection manager - save and choose multiple accounts, connect automatically on startup
- Added support for FIMS databases stored in Google Fusion Tables
- Added support for FIMS databases stored in MySQL
- Added a tabular view for plates - select a plate and click "Tabular plate view"
- Added a 'mark as submitted' action to sequences
Numerous other improvements, see the Release Notes for details
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LIMS
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Key Concepts - Key concepts that you need to know before using the biocode plugin.
Workflows - It is important that you understand how workflows work before entering data.
Entering Data - How to enter data into the LIMS, from your first plate through to cherry picking failed reactions for a second try.
Searching - How to intelligently search your data in the LIMS
Collating Workflows - Workflows can be combined into summary views for project managers and troubleshooters.
Printing - All views of the LIMS data are fully printable. This section explains how to get the most out of printing.
Export - The biocode plugin supports exporting plates and summary views to excel, as well as a selection of other formats.
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Assembly
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Assembly Workflow - A flow diagram describing the full assembly workflow.
Importing Trace Data - How to get your trace data into Geneious.
Binning - Group your traces/contigs based on overall quality to speed up the assembly workflow, and quickly identify problem sequences.
Trimming - Trim low quality data and primers from the ends of your sequences.
Mark as Pass/Fail - Mark sequences as having passed or failed in the LIMS
Assembly - Assembling the prepared reads into contigs.
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Analysis
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Submission
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