IGOR - Your Personal Lab Assistant vs. LabWare LIMS

Overview
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IGOR - Your Personal Lab Assistant
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IGOR is a cloud-based lab management platform for research teams in biotech, pharma, academia, and contract research. Experiment documentation (ELN), lab inventory and sample tracking, SOP management, file storage, and project planning are all built in and connected — to replace the mix of paper notebooks, spreadsheets, and disconnected tools that most labs still run on. Electronic Lab Notebook Experiment entries support rich text, tables with formula support, annotated…
$360
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LabWare LIMS
Score 7.0 out of 10
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LabWare LIMS from the company of the same name in Delaware is offered as an enterprise class laboratory information management system, touting feature breadth and its all-encompassing functionality.N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
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Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsIGOR offers three plans to fit different team sizes and research environments. The Academia plan starts at $30/user/month for academic and non-profit teams, with an optional inventory add-on for $5/user/month. The Professional plan is $80/user/month and adds SOP management, 21 CFR Part 11-compliant digital signatures, and 200 GB storage per user. The Momentum plan at $100/user/month includes everything in Professional plus full inventory management with sample lineage tracking, customizable repositories, and ELN integration. All plans are billed annually, include personalized onboarding and support at no extra cost, and come with no team-size limits. Guest user access is available on Professional and Momentum for $5/guest/month.
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User Testimonials
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Sample testing is great, communications (emails) out is so-so, depending on your need, you have to develop something. But that is not hard to do.
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Pros
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Labware
  • One of the strengths of this program, as previously stated, is to track your sample through the entire testing process, from log-in to results reporting.
  • It is also handy to generate reports of sample results using the LabWare LIMS program.
  • LabWare LIMS provides a great way to preserve testing results electronically for future needs.
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Cons
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Labware
  • The management of Event Triggers can stand to use some improvement. Especially when it comes to using the "DEFAULT" template event versus the specific template event.
  • Licenses are considered "concurrent". But LabWare does not have a feature that tells me (at any level) what my peak license usage is. For example ... if I own 100 licenses, LabWare will tell me at any given time how many licenses I am using. But it won't tell me at the end of the day, week, or month, what my peak usage was. So if I own 100 licenses, and I look at my usage right now, it might say I am using 50 licenses out of 100. Does this mean I have 50 too many licenses? Probably not. I just need a way of telling what my peak usage is so that if I want to roll LabWare out to another site, do I need to buy more licenses? Or will my 100 cover for it?
  • Importing data into static data tables is not well done in LabWare ... or even available. I can do it outside of LabWare with database management tools such as TOAD. But it is up to me to make sure all the tables and columns are populated correctly. It would be nice to have a feature within LabWare to do import data (from Excel spreadsheet for example) directly into some of the main tables.
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Alternatives Considered
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Labware
I have not used other LIMS systems.
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Return on Investment
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Labware
  • Very positive. It allows the production units to increase volumes (and thus sampling) with minor impact on the lab.
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ScreenShots

IGOR - Your Personal Lab Assistant Screenshots

Screenshot of Electronic Lab Notebook
An experiment entry for an immunofluorescence study captured in IGOR's Electronic Lab Notebook. The ELN allows scientists to document their work using a rich text editor with table sections that support formulas and Excel imports, image galleries with annotation support, and file attachments for virtually any data type - all linked to relevant SOPs or templates within a single record. The ELN also integrates directly with the Inventory module, so scientists can track which samples and reagents were used in an experiment and how they connect to other samples or experiments in the system. Every entry is backed by full version control and a detailed audit trail, with 21 CFR Part 11-compliant digital signatures, witness records, and configurable approval workflows built in.Screenshot of Inventory: Storage Location Map View
IGOR lets teams build a digital representation of their entire lab storage setup - from rooms and freezers down to individual box positions - fully customizable to match any physical layout. Color-coded map views make it easy to see at a glance which positions are occupied, empty, or flagged, and what the status of each sample is. Scientists can search for items within any specific location, check availability, and pinpoint exactly where a sample lives without walking to the freezer or flipping through handwritten logs.Screenshot of Inventory: Sample History
Every inventory item in IGOR carries a complete, timestamped history of everything that's happened to it - from initial registration with full metadata, through relationship changes, storage location moves, and consumption in experiments. Each event records who made the change, when, and exactly what was modified, giving scientists a single place to reconstruct a sample's full story without chasing down paper logs or asking colleagues. Whether it's troubleshooting unexpected results, answering auditor questions, or verifying that proper handling procedures were followed, the full chain of events is always just a click away.Screenshot of Inventory: Sample Relationship Tracking
IGOR's Inventory module automatically maps parent-child relationships between samples, giving scientists a visual lineage graph that traces how any item in the system - cell lines, plasmids, reagents, derived products - connects back to its origin. This makes it easy to answer questions like "where did this sample come from," "what was derived from it," and "which experiments used it," without piecing together information from spreadsheets or freezer logs. Full chain-of-custody documentation is built in, supporting both day-to-day lab decision-making and regulatory traceability requirements.Screenshot of Team Workspace Dashboard
Each workspace in IGOR has its own dashboard where admins can see every team member at a glance - their role, access level, and join date. IGOR supports granular permission controls with Member, Admin, and Guest access levels, so teams can bring in external collaborators with read-only access without compromising data control. Admins can view any member's lab notebook or adjust their permissions directly from the dashboard, and a centralized Manage Members panel makes it easy to add, remove, or reconfigure access as teams evolve.Screenshot of Project Manager: Gantt Chart View
IGOR's built-in Project Manager allows teams to plan research programs, assign tasks, set priorities, define dependencies between activities, and track progress on a visual Gantt timeline within the same platform where experiments are documented and samples are managed. Scientists can link experiments and notebook entries directly to project tasks, connecting the plan to the actual work. Milestones mark key decision points, and color-coded bars give an at-a-glance view of what's completed, in progress, or upcoming.