LES: The Laboratory Execution System
A Laboratory Execution System (LES) is a software application that supports the documented execution of analyses, the systematic handling of preparations for experiments or the production of reagents in a laboratory. The LES guides the user through the individual work steps by means of notes or instructions. At the same time, the LES prompts the user to enter important data for the current work step either electronically or manually. This form of dialogue between software and user is intended to ensure that work processes become safer and at the same time the necessary documentation obligations are fulfilled.
LES in LIMS
We have already said that software developers have a penchant for abbreviations. Another abbreviation is LIMS, the Laboratory Information and Management System. This system is, so to speak, the basis in the digital laboratory - or to put it simply: LIMS is the "operating system" in the digital laboratory. LES, on the other hand, is a specialized application that supplements the functions of LIMS. LES is therefore - also in simple terms - an "add-on software" that complements the LIMS operating system.
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