ELIMU-MDx: a web-based, open-source platform for storage, management and analysis of diagnostic qPCR data

Biotechniques. 2020 Jan;68(1):22-27. doi: 10.2144/btn-2019-0064. Epub 2019 Oct 7.

Abstract

The Electronic Laboratory Information and Management Utensil for Molecular Diagnostics (ELIMU-MDx) is a user-friendly platform designed and built to accelerate the turnaround time of diagnostic qPCR assays. ELIMU-MDx is compliant with Minimum Information for Publication of Quantitative Real-Time PCR Experiments (MIQE) guidelines and has extensive data-import capabilities for all major qPCR instruments by using the RDML data standard. This platform was designed as an open-source software tool and can be accessed through the web browser on all major operating systems.

Keywords: ELIMU-MDx; MIQE; RDML; diagnostic; infectious diseases; qPCR.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Humans
  • Information Storage and Retrieval
  • Internet
  • Malaria / blood
  • Malaria / parasitology
  • Plasmodium falciparum / genetics
  • Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction* / statistics & numerical data
  • Software*
  • User-Computer Interface