Table 1.

Comparison between the features of some of the most common used LIMS

	appMAGI	MendeLIMS	MetaLIMS	Baobab	PASSIM	Galaxy LIMS
Clinical diagnosis
Patients registration	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
NGS analysis	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	Yes
Barcode	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Quality control	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Bionformatics pipeline	Yes	Yes	No	No	No	No
Informatics and security
User clas privileges	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Https/ssl	No	Yes	Yes	No	No	No
Web-based	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Technology	Django, Python	Javascript, Ruby	PHP	Python	Java	Javascript
Database	SQLite 3	MySQL	MySQL	ZODB	Oracle	SQL
General
Informatics knowledge	Base	Base	Base	Medium	Medium	Base
Emails and notifications	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Inventory management	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	No
Instruments integration	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	No
Report visualization	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No