Benefits

Web-Based Client Portal

Empower your clients with direct, secure access to your laboratory
With Bika LIMS, clients can:

• Request new analyses online
• Track sample progress in real time
• View, download, and query test results

Unlike older web-enabled systems, Bika LIMS is natively web-based, no desktop installation required. It is built in Plone, a most secure and reliable enterprise content management framework

This ensures true cloud accessibility, data integrity and security

ISO 17025 ready

Bika LIMS maintains a complete audit trail for all objects, every change: samples, results, methods, instruments, and system configuration, ensuring full traceability for ISO 17025 and GLP compliance

Instrument Management

Integrate your lab instruments directly for full automation

Track instrument calibration, maintenance, and validation records to ensure compliance

With real-time data synchronization, your laboratory achieves greater accuracy, operational efficiency and a dramatic improvement in turnaround time

Currently available interfaces

Sample and Aliquot Management

Batching and bulk imports for high-volume processing

Aliquoting and sample partitioning with parent/child traceability

Prioritization and rejection workflows

Sample Storage

Track samples from receipt to disposal. Visualize sample placement with graphic shelf layouts

Quality Control & Assurance

Maintain analytical integrity through integrated QC management:

Validate methods, analyses, and instruments continuously

Manage reference analyses and generate control charts automatically

Receive alerts for out-of-range results

Define product specifications and tolerance thresholds

Certificates of Analysis

Deliver professional, digitally signed COAs with full traceability, via email, PDF, CSV, automatically, ensuring regulatory compliance

Various single- or multi-sample COA templates

Manage provisional COAs, final approvals, and republications

Preview COAs in real time

Billing

Save time and improve transparency between technical and administrative teams

Automation and Smart Processing

Reduce manual effort and eliminate transcription errors :

• Custom calculations and unit conversions
• Define and reuse editable templates for analysis panels, worksheets, and reference specifications
• Bulk sample import for large data sets
• Import field or subcontracted results

Automation ensures consistency and frees analysts to focus on science

System Integration

Bika LIMS includes a RESTful API for seamless integration with external systems such as ERP

Background Processing

Keep the system responsive during heavy workloads:

• Submit intensive tasks for asynchronous background processing
• Continue other work while bulk transitions run in the background

Multilingual

Bika LIMS supports a growing number of languages - including English, Spanish, German, Polish, Chinese (中文), and Thai (ไทย)

Document Management

Manage all your laboratory documentation:

• Maintain version-control SOPs, methods, and accreditation documents in the LIMS
• Maintain revision histories for quality and compliance audits
• Manage marketing materials and certificates alongside analytical documents

Integrated document control simplifies ISO 17025, GLP, and internal QA compliance

Robust, Secure, and Reliable

Bika LIMS benefits from the stability and security of Linux and Plone

End-to-end encryption and advanced access control

Designed for uptime, data integrity, and resilience

Labs enjoy the confidence of a platform trusted worldwide in scientific, healthcare, and industrial environments

Low Total Cost of Ownership

Own your system - completely

All source code is publicly available to perpuity

Free to adapt, extend, and share

No license fees, no user limits, no vendor lock-in

Minimal IT overhead - no complex benchtop installs, low hardware requirements

Improved Turnaround and Accuracy

Transform your lab’s efficiency by moving to a web-based, automated LIMS:

• Cut turnaround times (TAT) by up to two-thirds
• Integrate barcoding and bidirectional instrument interfaces for seamless data flow
• Eliminate manual data entry and reduce human error

Flexible and Customizable

Every laboratory operates differently. Bika LIMS adapts to your workflow:

Configurable analyses, methods, and forms

Its open architecture and modular design make Bika one of the most flexible LIMS platforms available

Easy to Use and Accessible

Bika’s web interface ensures high satisfaction for both clients and staff:

• Access from any device, in any browser
• Fully multilingual interface for global teams
• No desktop disruption - updates and features deploy instantly
• Clients can submit samples, view results, and access training material directly through the Lab Web Portal

Reduced Administration & Effortless Accreditation

Simplify record-keeping and compliance with data at your fingertips:

• Centralized document management for SOPs and methods
• Easy audit preparation and ISO 17025 support

Everything your team needs is securely available online - reducing admin time and paperwork

High-Quality, Peer-Reviewed Open Source Code

Open source isn’t just philosophy - it’s quality assurance:

• Every line of code is peer-reviewed and automatically tested
• Continuous integration ensures stable upgrades
• Backed by a community of fee paying clients, early adopters and professional developers

Professional Services and Active Community

Bika Labs and the open-source community offer full support for setup, customization, and maintenance.

Service-based pricing - you pay for expertise, not for licenses

A global user and contributor community ensures continuous improvement