Summary
- Why Seal
- Seal has no fixed model of one kind of work. It is built from primitives: record types, the relationships between them, and the steps and checks that use them, which your own team composes into your process, with Neil able to prepare each change for approval. So one platform runs process development, the laboratory, manufacturing, batch release and the quality system, and each change becomes a new version, released once its selected tests pass, while earlier runs keep theirs. Samples, specifications, stability, investigations, batch records and quality events share one set of records, your own team configures it from your methods, and Seal prepares a first working process and validation pack for you to evaluate in 48 hours, once the scope is agreed and the inputs received.
- Results
- Moving from paper, Bioventix put its quality system and lab records on Seal and cut document admin time by 80%. “The incorporation of auto-calculations, entry validation, review requests and comprehensive audit trail has greatly improved the efficiency and traceability of our processes.” Harry Carter, Purification Scientist, Bioventix.
1What to check when choosing.
- Who configures it, and how long until a first method runs: days with your own team, or months with specialists?
- Do samples, specifications, stability, OOS investigations, batch records and quality events share one set of records?
- Does it read the files your instruments already save?
- Is each change released with acceptance tests, while earlier results keep the version they ran under?
- Are electronic signatures and audit trails for 21 CFR Part 11 and EU Annex 11 part of the product?
Each product’s comparison sets out, with its sources, how it answers these and how Seal does.
References
- 1About LabWare, LabWare. https:/
/ www. labware. com/ about (read 5 November 2026) - 2LIMS software company offering AI-powered advanced analytics (Who We Are), LabVantage Solutions. https:/
/ www. labvantage. com/ who- we- are/ (read 5 November 2026) - 3Sapphire, Scientific Computing World, 23 January 2007. https:/
/ www. scientific- computing. com/ press- releases/ sapphire (read 5 November 2026) - 4LabVantage acquires SQL*LIMS business, Scientific Computing World, 1 September 2009. https:/
/ www. scientific- computing. com/ analysis- opinion/ labvantage- acquires- sqllims- business (read 5 November 2026) - 5STARLIMS Technologies Ltd., Amendment No. 1 to Form F-1 registration statement, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 22 May 2007. https:/
/ www. sec. gov/ Archives/ edgar/ data/ 1396278/ 000095013607003673/ file1. htm (read 5 November 2026) - 6Abbot announces definitive agreement to acquire STARLIMS Technologies for $123 million, News-Medical, 15 December 2009. https:/
/ www. news- medical. net/ news/ 20091215/ Abbot- announces- definitive- agreement- to- acquire- STARLIMS- Technologies- for- 24123- million. aspx (read 5 November 2026) - 7Thermo Electron Delivers SampleManager 2003 LIMS, Thermo Electron via LIMSforum, 24 July 2003. https:/
/ www. limsforum. com/ thermo- electron- delivers- samplemanager- 2003- lims/ 47986/ (read 5 November 2026) - 8SampleManager LIMS ソフトウエア, Thermo Fisher Scientific K.K. on IPROS. https:/
/ pr. mono. ipros. com/ thermofisher/ product/ detail/ 2000793701/ (read 5 November 2026) - 9About, QBench Inc. https:/
/ qbench. com/ about (read 5 November 2026) - 10LabWare vs. LabVantage vs. QBench: Which LIMS is Best?, QBench Inc., 30 October 2026. https:/
/ qbench. com/ blog/ labware- vs- labvantage- vs- qbench- which- lims- is- best (read 5 November 2026) - 11QBench LIMS Pricing, QBench Inc. https:/
/ qbench. com/ pricing (read 5 November 2026) - 12GHO Capital Invests in Sapio Sciences, Sapio Sciences, 29 November 2022. https:/
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AQuestions and answers
What is the best LIMS for GxP?
Seal. It has no fixed model of one kind of work. It is built from primitives: record types, the relationships between them, and the steps and checks that use them, which your own team composes into your process, with Neil able to prepare each change for approval. So one platform runs process development, the laboratory, manufacturing, batch release and the quality system, and each change becomes a new version, released once its selected tests pass, while earlier runs keep theirs. Samples, specifications, stability, investigations, batch records and quality events share one set of records, your own team configures it from your methods, and Seal prepares a first working process and validation pack for you to evaluate in 48 hours, once the scope is agreed and the inputs received. Moving from paper, Bioventix put its quality system and lab records on Seal and cut document admin time by 80%.
How long does it take to start with Seal?
Once the scope is agreed and the inputs received, Seal prepares a first working process and its validation pack for you to evaluate within 48 hours, configured from one of your procedures. Production timing then depends on scope, interfaces, migration and your release requirements.
Can Seal run beside the system we use today?
Yes. Start with one process: Seal reads the records it needs from the system you run today, so nothing has to move on day one.