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Open Source LIMS Core based on the CMS Plone ==============================================
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Introduction ============
SENAITE.CORE is an Open Source Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) for enterprise environments, especially focused to behave with excellent performance and stability.
Installation ============
SENAITE.CORE provides the core functionalities and entities used by
SENAITE.LIMS _.
It is intended to be imported automatically as a dependency of SENAITE.LIMS and other SENAITE products, and it should not be installed without the SENAITE.LIMS UI.
Contribute ==========
We want contributing to SENAITE.CORE to be fun, enjoyable, and educational for
anyone, and everyone. This project adheres to the Contributor Covenant
_.
By participating, you are expected to uphold this code. Please report unacceptable behavior.
Contributions go far beyond pull requests and commits. Although we love giving you the opportunity to put your stamp on SENAITE.CORE, we also are thrilled to receive a variety of other contributions.
Please, read Contributing to senaite.core document
_.
Feedback and support ====================
Community site_Gitter channel_Users list_
License =======
SENAITE.CORE Copyright (C) 2018-2025 RIDING BYTES & NARALABS
This software, henceforth "SENAITE.CORE" is an add-on for the
Plone CMS _ and a derivative work of BIKA LIMS.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2
_ as published by
the Free Software Foundation.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.