Every animal sample, connected to its case and its result.
Animal Science Lab Software Solutions
LabKey offers software for all kinds of labs within animal science. Our software tracks each sample with the case ID and submitter details that later results trace back to, keeping your labs organized from collection to freezer and beyond.
Animal science software
A result means little without the animal and the sample history behind it. When that context lives in a separate records system and gets re-keyed into the lab's, details drift and results get matched back by hand. When nobody can see a sample's history, labs test it again. You end up sorting out those mismatches yourself, in between casework.
LabKey lets you configure required fields by species, so a herd submission and a single canine biopsy each capture what they need. Pathology labs build workflow templates from their SOPs, like a necropsy workup. Each case starts the same way, and every step is timestamped. Research groups, such as disease monitoring programs and wildlife agencies, keep samples and results from multiple sites searchable together.
Case-to-result traceability
Register each sample with its case ID and species, and link it to the clinic or field site that submitted it. Every result you record stays linked to that sample and its case.
An audit trail from receipt to result
Timestamped workflow steps and an audit trail document how each result was produced, and your lab can require a reason for each change. If you're preparing for AAVLD accreditation, you can show your work without reconstructing paperwork.
Sample lineage across species
Aliquots and pooled herd or flock samples stay linked to the original sample and its case. Pull a result years later, and you can trace it to its source.
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Animal Science FAQ
Veterinary diagnostic labs often use a laboratory information management system (LIMS) to track cases and samples from intake through the final report. LabKey's Veterinary LIMS does this with configurable workflows and instrument data import.
Animal pathology and diagnostic labs, herd and flock health labs, aquaculture health labs, foodborne disease labs, wildlife and fisheries agencies, disease surveillance and zoonotic research programs, vaccine research groups, and primate research centers use software like LabKey to keep samples tied to their results and animal records.
Depending on your product selection and tracking needs, yes. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game consolidated Excel and Access records into Sample Manager, and Tulane National Biomedical Research Center moved from spreadsheets and other freezer management software into Sample Manager, our base product that's included in Vet LIMS and SDMS.
Sample Manager ties samples directly to assay data and to each sample location and history, for research groups and monitoring programs. Veterinary LIMS includes Sample Manager and adds workflow management and instrument data import, among other capabilities, for diagnostic and pathology labs.