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LIMS Bibliography, Classification Scheme

1 LABORATORY MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL

la General aspects 1 b Laboratory information management systems (LIMS) lc Applications (preliminary operations, laboratory activities planning and control, decision mak-

ing, inter-laboratory compatibility, calibration procedures; for validation and chemometrics see section Sa)

2 EXPERT SYSTEMS AND PREDICTION METHODS

2a Construction set-ups and general (for automated equipment and procedures see section 4a, for computerised instrumentation and results processing see section 5b)

2b Applications

3 ROBOTICS (see also Automation, section 6)

4 OPTIMIZATION OF LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS (selected references only, computerised procedures see also section 5b, for computational optimisation see also section 8b)

4a General aspects 4b Applications

5 MEANS OF INTEGRATING LABORATORY INFORMATIONS. COMPUTERISATION AND INFORMATION TRANSFER (for interlaboratory compatibility see section lc)

5a General aspects and interfacing 5b Applications (computerised instruments and procedures, computer aided programs and auto-

mated sequence alignment)

6 AUTOMATION

6a General aspects 6b Automated instrumentation and procedures (for computerised instruments see also section 5b) 6c Applications (For computer aided sequence alignment see 5b)

7 DATA ACQUISITION, ANALYSIS AND PROCESSING

7a General aspects 7b Applications and data processing (for standardisation and chemometrics see section 9b)

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7c Databases (including databases for protein and nucleic acid sequences; for computerised se- quence alignment see 5b)

8 STATISTICAL THEORY AND MATHEMATICS WITH APPLICATION TO CHEMISTRY (selected references only)

8a Chemometrics, validation quality assurance and neural networks (for neural network models see section 9b)

8b Quality control 8c Applications (computational chemistry, QSAR, complementary mathematical methods, genetic

algorithms; for QSAR modelling see section 9b)

9 MODELLING AND SIMULATION IN THE LABORATORY ENVIRONMENT

9a General 9b Applications