From receipt to disposition, every sample accounted for.
CMS Life Sciences runs the complete clinical sample lifecycle with guided workflows, live chain-of-custody, and a triage pattern that auto-advances clean work and routes exceptions to the right person.
A guided workflow for every stage.
Each stage is gated, attributable, and audit-logged — no step happens off-system.
Reception wizard
A four-gate intake — manifest, parcel inspection, barcode scanning, and validation — captures shipment details, condition checks, and sign-offs before anything is accepted.
Barcode scanning
Live operator scanning timestamps every sample to a named operator, satisfying the Attributable principle from the first touch.
Tracking
Search and filter samples across their lifecycle status and storage hierarchy — always know where a sample is and what state it's in.
Transfers & returns
Inter-freezer, inter-site, and inter-study movements run through approval chains with SLA deadlines and custody hand-off.
Reconciliation
Expected-vs-actual counts and field mismatches surface for guided resolution, each correction captured with a reason-for-change.
Disposition
End-of-study destroy, retain, or deplete decisions with custodian sign-off, optional two-person authorization, and linked evidence documents.
A control room for your sample operation.
The dashboard surfaces the day's work and the system's health so managers act on exceptions, not spreadsheets.
- Morning briefing of today's incoming shipments
- Transfer / return gap indicator catches sample imbalances
- Review queue for pending approvals with exception flags
- System status panel for component health and queued records
- Immutable, append-only event stream
- Every event attributable to a person and timestamp
- Evidence documents linked (manifests, approvals, reports)
- Exportable for audits and inspections
A complete, audit-ready history for every sample.
The custody timeline composes audit events, transfers, returns, and disposition into one report — from receipt through final disposition — with ALCOA+ principles documented per event and evidence documents linked.
What's available today — and what's coming.
CMS Life Sciences covers the sample-management capabilities labs expect from a modern platform, with an honest view of what's shipped versus on the roadmap.
Sample lifecycle
- Manifest / shipment intakeAvailable
- Guided reception wizard (4 gates)Available
- Barcode scanning & operator attributionAvailable
- Sample status & location trackingAvailable
- Transfers & returns with SLA trackingAvailable
- Reconciliation & discrepancy resolutionAvailable
- End-of-study disposition (dual authorization)Available
- Aliquoting & derivative trackingRoadmap
Biobanking
- AI-assisted discovery searchAvailable
- Consent-gated reuse (broad/restricted/expired)Available
- Bulk accessioning (spot-check at scale)In progress
- Freezer hierarchy & relocationIn progress
- Capacity planning & utilization heat mapsIn progress
- Long-term storage & consent-expiry alertsIn progress
Compliance & governance
- Immutable ALCOA+ audit trailAvailable
- Reason-for-change capture (GxP)Available
- Ethics / consent approval trackingAvailable
- Chain-of-custody timeline reportAvailable
- Role-based, feature-locked dashboardsAvailable
- 21 CFR Part 11 / GxP / ICH GCP indicatorsAvailable
Operations & integration
- Dashboard KPIs, briefing & review queueAvailable
- System status / component health monitoringAvailable
- Cold-chain / temperature IoT monitoringRoadmap
- Connectors for existing systems & data backbonesRoadmap
- Study registration & closure orchestrationRoadmap
- Admin configuration consoleRoadmap
See your sample lifecycle running on CMS Life Sciences.
We'll walk your workflows end to end, from manifest to disposition.