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Standards & Databases Interest Group / databases for metadata - what systems do people use?
I\'d like to pick up on something Susanna and Adam wrote about - databases.
We\'re at a crunch point in my lab and need to put a system in place to manage our data from info about source organism to where the NMR or MS data files are. There are commercial LIMS systems available but I\'d be interested in hearing more about what everyone else is using.
Our lab also includes proteomics and any solution we put in place would need to be compatible (at least at the interfaces) with our colleagues in genomics (who are in the process of changing their LIMS). We are looking at between 3000-10,000 samples per project and any LIMS will be managed on the department\'s cluster (unix).
isa tools seems to be something a few people have talked about. I\'m not a data base expert but I\'ve tried to have a look at some of the documentation on this. Is it an relational database that is customisable? Is this working well for people? Could we get it to recognise and/or produce bar codes? The ontology and experimental descriptors look good and certainly seems like it would work for our systems biol work.
What are other people using?
cheers
Simone