Development of a Laboratory Information Management System for Medical Genetic Investigations (LIMS)

Studying the genetic factor underlying a set of diseases with modern high- throughput techniques generates huge amounts of data, posing a challenge for data management. In this thesis a database management system called FIDB based on MySQL was developed to handle clinical and experimental genetic data. For the convenience of the users, a web interface was developed to insert, update, delete and display the data. In addition security aspects were taken care of. Currently FIDB is able to organise and store data gathered by analysing 150 consanguineous families with autosomal recessive mental retardation