Inventory overview

The default Inventory contains three folders: Materials, Methods, Publications.

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These are used to organise respectively:

  • Materials: samples and materials of any type used in the lab.

  • Methods: protocols and procedures that need to be shared with all lab members.

  • Publications: this folder contains the Public Repositories Collection, used to collect entries published in Zenodo or in the ETH Research Collection (for ETH users only). See Data export.

Samples, materials and protocols are modelled in openBIS as Objects.

For life sciences, following Object types are provided:

Antibodies, Chemicals, Enzymes, Media, Solutions and Buffers, Plasmids, Plants, Oligos, 
RNAs, Bacteria, Cell lines, Flies, Yeasts, General protocols, PCR protocols, Western blotting protocols.

These Objects are organised in Collections in the Materials and Methods sections of the Inventory. See ELN types.

Additional Object types and the corresponding Collections must be created by the Instance admin, based on the needs of the lab.

It is possible to add additional folders in the Inventory, for example for Equipment (see Create new Inventory Spaces).