Baobab LIMS is an open-source laboratory information management system (LIMS) software that will ensure that researchers can track the lifecycle of a biospecimen in the laboratory from receipt to storage and reuse. This software ensures that sufficient metadata is captured.

Baobab is a common name given to nine tree species in different countries in the world, mostly in Africa.

Baobab LIMS written in Plone, a python framework known for its robustness, and inherits some modules from Bika LIMS.

Click the Try in PWD button below to get 4 hours to try Baobab LIMS in the cloud.

DockerHub account needed.

Authentication: admin:adminsecret

Kindly install docker using instructions from here and run the following command:

docker run -p 8080:8080 quay.io/baobab-lims/baobab-lims

$ pip install docker-compose
...
$ git clone https://github.com/BaobabLims/baobab.lims.git
$ cd baobab.lims
$ docker-compose up -d

Access Baobab LIMS on localhost:8080:

• Click on Install a Baobab distribution.
• Check Baobab LIMS option, then click Install the form.
• Authentication: admin:adminsecret

• Baobab LIMS Standalone installation

• User Manual
• Github Wiki
• Online Documentation

• Baobab LIMS Team on Gitter
• Issues can be submitted via GitHub Issues