Dear Tobias, My group uses a web based content management system called drupal to manage inventory, orders and are now setting it up to manage data. Drupal has a SQL server to manage different types of information and it is normally utilized to build websites, but you can also use it as a database only. To do this, you make different tables (drupal calls them content types) for your results project ideas, literature or whatever else you want to manage. Since the database is relational you can setup fields that lookup information from other content types or you can just put in a hyperlink since it is also a webpage. You can attach an unlimited number of files, but we usually put in links to the files that are stored on our server. Happy to talk in more detail if you want to contact me offline.
David Blum Bioexpression and Fermentation Facility University of Georgia [email protected] bff.uga.edu On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 7:21 AM, Tobias Beck <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am looking for a software solution to organize many pieces of information > > 1.) Results from (bio)chemical experiments, such as spectral data, > pictures. > > 2.) Project ideas, milestones, etc. > > 3.) Literature, including tags, short comments, etc. > > For example, for a certain project I would like to collect information > about experiments conducted, then link this to literature/literature > experiments and to project outlines. All this should be accessible for > multiple users on different OS. > > I have briefly looked into PiMS (too much crystallography oriented), > Contor ELN (only on Safari on Mac?), Labguru (nice, but not too flexible > and mostly for biosciences) and Confluence (nice wiki, but so far no real > literature plugin). > > I know that this sounds maybe a little bit like something called in German > a 'eierlegende Wollmilchsau' > http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/eierlegende_Wollmilchsau .... > > But I would be happy to hear about what software people (and labs) have > tried, liked/disliked and > ideally the reasons. > > (I am aware that there was a similar query > https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg24657.html, but > this was more than 2 years ago) > > Thanks a lot! > > Best wishes, Tobias. > > -- > _______________________________________ > > Dr. Tobias Beck > ETH Zurich > Laboratory of Organic Chemistry > Vladimir-Prelog-Weg 3, HCI F 322 > 8093 Zurich, Switzerland > phone: +41 44 632 68 65 > fax: +41 44 632 14 86 > web: http://www.protein.ethz.ch/people/tobias > _______________________________________ > >
