CORPEX LIMS Software

Most labs don't buy a LIMS because paper is inconvenient. They buy one because a regulator or accreditation body requires proof that the data behind a released batch, a certificate, or a test report is complete, attributable, and unaltered. FDA 21 CFR Part 11 sets the framework most pharmaceutical and food QC labs are measured against: electronic records have to be as trustworthy as the paper they replace, changes need a reason and a timestamp, and every signature has to tie back to a specific, authenticated user.

ISO/IEC 17025, the accreditation standard testing and calibration labs work to, adds requirements around method validation, measurement uncertainty, equipment calibration records, and the technical competence behind a result — Egypt's EGAC accreditation body assesses against this same standard. CORPEX LIMS is designed around both frameworks: every record carries a full audit trail of who entered a result, when, on what instrument, and what changed afterward and why, and electronic signatures tie to individual user accounts rather than shared logins. The underlying principle is ALCOA+: results have to be attributable, legible, contemporaneous, original, and accurate, and the system's job is to make that the default rather than something a lab enforces by discipline alone.

A LIMS and an electronic lab notebook (ELN) solve different problems, and it helps to be clear about which one you're buying. A LIMS is built around samples: it logs a sample in, tracks it against a specification and a method, and produces the result and the release decision. An ELN is built around experiments: it's where a scientist records what was tried, what was observed, and the reasoning that led from one experiment to the next, which matters most in R&D and discovery work where the specification doesn't exist yet.

CORPEX does not make you choose. The ELN comes inside CORPEX LIMS rather than as a separate product, so a development scientist's notebook entries sit in the same system as the samples, methods, specifications and results they lead to. Across SilverLIMS, BioLIMS, MicroLIMS and the rest of the family, the LIMS side does the sample-centric work: sample tracking, method and specification management, instrument data capture, and the audit trail a regulated QC or stability lab is assessed against. When a method moves from development into routine QC, there is no hand-off between two vendors' systems.

Beyond the specialty LIMS products, CORPEX rounds out the lab data stack with CFast for quick QC lab data capture and calculation, and CORPEX SDMS to centralize scientific data such as chromatography and spectroscopy output that doesn't fit neatly into a single sample record. Both plug into the same data and instrument integration layer as the LIMS itself.

For manufacturers running an ERP, LIMS and SAP integration keeps QC release status, specifications, and batch data synchronized between the lab and the plant floor, so a batch isn't sitting in two systems with two different answers. And because installing regulated software is itself a computerized system that must be validated, every LIMS deployment is backed by computer system validation (CSV) — IQ/OQ/PQ documentation you can hand to an inspector, not just working software.