This package contains a relational database structure for life science research, and a number of functions to conveniently add and retrieve information - and generate summaries. The core concept of LabbookDB is that most of the information classically tracked in a lab book can be more efficiently and more reliably stored in a relational database.
In comparison to a paper notebook, an electronic lab book is:
- More easily stored
- More easily shared
- More easily backed up
In comparison with other electronic formats based on a document concept, a database of experimental metadata is:
- More easily browsed
- More easily queried
- More easily integrated into data analysis functions
- LabbookDB - A Relational Framework for Laboratory Metadata, at SciPy 2017 in Austin (TX,USA).
- LabbookDB - A Wet-Work-Tracking Database Application Framework, in Proceedings of the 15th Python in Science Conference (SciPy 2017).
LabbookDB is available for Portage (the package manager of Gentoo Linux, derivative distributions, as well as BSD) via the Gentoo Science Overlay. Upon enabling the overlay, the package can be emerged:
emerge labbookdbPython's setuptools allows you to install Python packages independently of your distribution (or operating system, even). This approach cannot manage any of our numerous non-Python dependencies (by design) and at the moment will not even manage Python dependencies; as such, given any other alternative, we do not recommend this approach:
git clone git@github.com:TheChymera/LabbookDB.git
cd LabbookDB
python setup.py install --userPython's setuptools allows you to install Python packages independently of your distribution (or operating system, even); it also allows you to install a "live" version of the package - dynamically linking back to the source code. This permits you to test code (with real module functionality) as you develop it. This method is sub-par for dependency management (see above notice), but - as a developer - you should be able to manually ensure that your package manager provides the needed packages.
git clone git@github.com:TheChymera/LabbookDB.git
cd LabbookDB
echo "export PATH=\$HOME/.local/bin/:\$PATH" >> ~/.bashrc
source ~/.bashrc
python setup.py develop --userLabbookDB is designed to organize complex wet work data. We publish example input to generate a relationship-rich database in a separate repository, demolog.