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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?

Scalable file-based raw data download

  • Download raw data file by file instead of as a single bundled archive, which scales to datasets of any size and supports resuming interrupted downloads. The bundled measurement download is deprecated. Check out the new download workflow.

Data Submission from outside the University Tübingen network

October 10th, 2025

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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

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.