What does 1.0 take? MISO LIMS after 9 years of development

MISO is a laboratory information management system designed for eukaryotic sequencing operations. It supports genomic, exomic, transcriptomic, methyl-omic, and CHiP-seq protocols; long reads and short reads; and microarrays. MISO’s goals are to allow laboratory technicians to record their work accurately with a minimum of data entry overhead, and to ensure the associated metadata is valid and structured enough to use for automation and other downstream applications. MISO incorporates a wide feature set useful for both large and small facilities to track their lab workflows in great detail. Since last presented at BOSC 2016, MISO has matured and stabilized to support production use in a large sequencing facility. MISO supports new instruments like the Illumina NovaSeq, 10X Chromium, and Oxford Nanopore PromethION, added more extensive location tracking, improved UI interfaces to simplify data entry, has improved overall performance, and has extensive documentation in the form of a new user manual and walkthroughs. Recently we have improved installation, administration, and maintenance through Docker containers and compose files. We have developed other applications that interact with MISO to facilitate laboratory functions like billing, reporting, and analysis. After 8 years of development, we are preparing a 1.0 release for late 2019.