Overview

PIMS is a Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) which is being developed to support data management for all stages of protein production, from Target selection to Crystallisation.

This guide describes how to use PIMS. It demonstrates how to record your data, by creating PIMS records, and how to search for, view, edit and delete records.
If you have experienced any problem using PIMS please contact developers

Contents

• PIMS Homepage
• Logging in to PIMS
• Navigating around PIMS
• Using Perspectives
• Creating a record in PIMS
• Search for records in PIMS
• View a List of records in PIMS
• Viewing a PIMS record
• Deleting a PIMS record

More specific help for the individual areas of PIMS is also available:

• Target management
• Experiment management
• Sample List
• History List
• Primer Ordering

Definitions of terms used in PIMS can be found in the project glossary.

Recommended browsers

You can use PIMS with:

• Firefox 2.0 or later
• Internet Explorer 7 or later, with the Java plugin