Conclusion
The LabBase and LabFlow systems described in this chapter are the latest in a series of systems we have built to tackle the problems of data management and workflow management for large scale biological research projects. We and our colleagues have used the predecessor systems for several projects at the Whitehead/MIT Center for Genome Research and are beginning to use the current systems for projects there and elsewhere. Though the software is incomplete in many ways, it is proven technology that in our hands, at least, greatly reduces the work of creating laboratory informatics systems.
While we welcome others to use our software, we believe there is greater value in the ideas. The totalquantity ofcodeis modest, comprising about 10,000 lines of Perl5. It would not be hard to reproduce the ideas in other contexts, and we encourage others to do so.
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Goodman, N., Rozen, S., Stein, L. (2002). LabBase: Data and Workflow Management for Large Scale Biological Research. In: Letovsky, S. (eds) Bioinformatics: Databases and Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-46903-0_24
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