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Sample Tracking with Ampletracks

In the first webinar of the series we will be presenting a broad introduction to PSDI.

About the Webinar​

Welcome to the Physical Sciences Data Infrastructure (PSDI) webinar series. This webinar series is designed to communicate the PSDI work to a wider audience!

This webinar continues the PSDI webinar series, in this webinar representatives from PSDI Partner the Henry Royce Institute present their Ampletracks sample tracking system. This webinar will be presented by Stavrina Dimosthenous (Henry Royce Institute) and Ben Jefferson.

Abstract​

Ampletracks is a configurable web-app built, originally, for sample tracking in and out of laboratory environments. In this talk, we will discuss Ampletracks in brief, and why and how we built Ampletracks. We will demonstrate Ampletracks implemented for a materials science audience. We will demonstrate the ‘User’ workflow, and Ampletracks features across the multiple ways to register a sample record, and intrinsic (like record type) and extrinsic (unlike record type) relationships between records. We will then demonstrate how to set different permission profiles for users, and ‘superuser’ permissions. To finish, we will briefly discuss other domains to apply Ampletracks, and how we use Ampletracks to track the development of Ampletracks.

Biographies​

Stavrina Dimosthenous is a Data Curator at the Henry Royce Institute for advanced materials (Royce) in the UK, based at the Royce Hub Building at The University of Manchester. She holds a PhD in Materials Science, and has conducted research in materials science and computational materials science across the UK and Europe. She leads the Royce Data Curation activity, where the team is promoting data management and open research practices and tools across Royce Partners. Stavrina’s interests include data science, machine learning, and accessibility in academia.

Ben is an information security and Internet technology expert with experience ranging from hands-on technical skills through to policy process and strategy development. Experienced in leading multi-million pound projects through all stages of project life cycle. Specialist in design and build of high capacity, high availability open source web applications. Previous projects include:

  • BAFTA: Online Entry and voting systems
  • Travelodge UK: Hotel booking site
  • Trinity College London: Exams Student and Examination management system

Watch the recording​

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What to do next​

Related links:

  • Galaxy Training
  • Elixir TeSS: extensive training materials with a focus on computation in the life sciences, but many courses are also relevant for the physical sciences community.
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