Coordinator
The BxCoordinatortm provides a central controller for accessing information and
launching tasks within the BxArraytm and
BxLabtm Process Flow.
It also provides the status of various tasks in the process flow such as the current status of
custom chip arraying or the status of probe hybridization and analysis.
Unique automatically generated IDs are used throughout the
system and barcodes with these IDs can also be generated. A convention for
the IDs was used in all of the applications. Each ID begins with Bx followed by
a letter , for example, 'U' for user, 'C' for contact, 'P' for project and 'S' for sample.
After the prefix is either an incrementing
offset number or a date in the form of 'mmddyy' which is then followed by an
incrementing offset number.
| Task |
Data Entry Views and Applications |
Description |
| Administrator |
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Manages Users, Contacts, Projects and
Samples. |
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Users |
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Add, Edit and Delete users (e.g. scientists, lab techs, data analyzers) of BxArrayCS. |
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Companies |
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Add, Edit and Delete companies for projects and contacts. |
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Contacts |
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Add, Edit and Delete company contacts for projects
and contracts. |
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Projects |
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Add, Edit and Delete projects and contracts.
Assign contacts and users to projects. |
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Project Notes |
Add and Update notes per project. Within a project notes are also stored by the author's name. |
| Librarian |
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Manage samples and arrays within the
laboratory. |
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Samples |
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Login samples and edit sample information.
Link samples to Projects. |
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Sample Login |
Login samples manually or from an Excel or Tab-delimited file. Link samples to projects, assign internal Tracking ID and Batch ID |
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Lab Book |
Add and Update Lab Book per sample. Within a sample Lab Book entries are also stored by the author's name. |
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Protocols |
Add and Update protocols per sample or project. |
| Designer |
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This application is used in the
experimental design process to create custom microarrays and to manage
probe data. |
| Assay |
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This application provides the user with the ability to use and to develop
standard protocols for hybridizing or binding samples to arrayed
slides. |
| Analyzer |
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This application provides basic analysis of acquired raw
data using proprietary algorithms. |
