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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?

Orcid Linkage and Template Registration Overhaul

September 18th, 2025

📌 Checkout the complete release notes on GitHub.

💡 Highlights:

  • Orcid Linkage: If you didn't add your orcid account during account registration you can catch up now by linking your orcid account in your user profiles
  • Simplify sample registration: Downloading the batch registration template can now be done within the sample registration dialog directly.
  • Simplify measurement registration: Specify the domain within the measurement registration dialog directly download the domain specific template
  • Optional measurement name: The measurement registration sheets for proteomics and genomics now feature a column "measurement name" to optionally store the internally assigned lab identifier
  • Raw data filtering: The registered datasets can now be filtered by their properties via a dedicated search field
  • Download Urls for filtered raw data: Triggering the download of dataset URLS provides only the URLs of the filtered dataset

Update history

Metadata Examples and Descriptions

September 18th, 2025
  • Glossary: Introduction of a glossary explaining the terms with example values in the research data management documentation. Check it out here

Enable Asynchronous Sample and Experiment Update

June 10th, 2025
  • Enable the user to trigger sample creation and update asynchronously
  • Enable the user to trigger experiment update processes asynchronously.
  • Keep him informed of the progress via dedicated toast notifications

Streamline service API within the Data Manager backend to enable CRUD processes asynchronously

March 4th, 2025
  • Enable the user to trigger project creation asynchronously
  • Keep him informed of the progress via dedicated toast notifications
  • Update the Data Manager to Java 21

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.

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.