Research lab management software is the sample record with the research group's structure around it: projects and the people on them, instrument bookings and the recharge that follows, and the freezer map the group shares. Core facility management software is the same record for a facility that serves many groups, where the booking and the recharge are the business; animal research facility software adds the protocol, the colony and the cage to it; lab organization software is the small group's name for all three. This page is about what each must keep, and the free instrument calibration sheet on this site works a figure every core recharges for, the calibration cost per instrument, from the facility's own numbers with no account.
Lab organization software: projects, people and bookings
A project owns samples and consumes instrument hours; a booking is an instrument, a person, a project and a slot; a recharge is the booking priced. Core facility management software that keeps the three as one record invoices the month from it; software that keeps a calendar invoices from a spreadsheet.
Protocols and colonies
Animal research facility software keeps the approved protocol with its numbers, the colony with its cages and the animals with their histories, and the samples drawn from them against the animal. The protocol's limits are the facility's own to keep; the record is how it shows it kept them.
Recharging calibration and the rest
An instrument's calibration is part of its hourly cost, and the calibration sheet on this site works it: $960 an instrument a year on the worked example, from five figures. Limslane Pro keeps the samples, the instruments and their calibration at one flat price; the booking calendar and the recharge are the facility's own systems or the same record one level up.
Questions people ask about research lab management software
What must research lab management software keep?
Projects with their people and samples, instrument bookings with their recharge, the shared freezer map, and the instruments' calibration.
What does core facility management software add?
The booking and the recharge as the business: instrument, person, project, slot and price on one record, invoiced from it.
What does animal research facility software keep?
The protocol, the colony, the cage and the animal, with the samples drawn against the animal and the protocol's limits kept as a record.