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Life Science Data Management

Behind every great research project should be great research data management! Start your voyage towards a FAIR and Open Data future and include the data manager platform early on in your research!

What's new?

Confounding variable support

February 12th, 2025
  • Experimental design: The management of confounding variables on experiment and sample level is now possible
  • Ontology: Ontology terms are now queried from TIB's new APIv3 by default, which uses the improved OLS4 backend
  • Measurements: Technical replicate information is now shown for measurements
  • Measurements: Sample pool names are now displayed in the measurement overview
  • Metadata: Improved Excel file export that also displays the ontology terms CURIE

Check out the full release notes on GitHub.

Update notes

New project summary layout

November 14th, 2024
  • A completely new design of the project summary, that targets many improvements for accessing and updating high level project information
  • Enhances the spreadsheet templates with examples using what Microsoft calls Input Messages and links to further information resources
  • Spreadsheet templates are no static documents anymore, but generated dynamically

Excel spreadsheets now supported for sample batch registration

October 23rd, 2024
  • Sample Batches can now be registered and updated directly with XLSX spreadsheets.
  • RO-Crate Export: The project summary information can now be downloaded as an RO-Crate to your local filesystem within the project summary. For more information on RO-Crates visit here.
  • Some smaller bug fixes.

Excel spreadsheets now supported for measurements

September 4th, 2024
  • Measurements can now be registered and updated directly with XLSX spreadsheets. TSV is still supported.
  • Sample metadata: the term Organism ID has been renamed to Biological Replicate to match its purpose of use.
  • The data manager is now connected to the TIB terminology service.
    The queried ontologies are restricted to life science specific ones. You miss one? Please let us know and submit a feature request. Currently included ontologies are:
  • Bio-assay Ontology (BAO)
  • Brenda Tissue Ontology (BTO)
  • Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (CHEBI) Bioinformatics operations, data types, formats, identifiers and topics (EDAM)
  • Experimental Factor Ontology (EFO)
  • Environmental Factor Ontology (ENVO)
  • Gene Ontology (GO)
  • Molecular Interaction (MI)
  • PSI Mass Spectrometry Ontology (MS)
  • National Cancer Institute Thesaurus (NCIT)
  • Plant Ontology (PO)
  • For species, terms can be selected from NCBI's tree of life.
  • Some smaller bug fixes.