How INRA Lab Improved Sample Storage: 15,000+ samples managed with LabCollector at the Jouy-en-Josas transgenesis facility

"I'm a research engineer in the INRA research center of Jouy en Josas, near Paris. I'm involved in the production of animal models by genome editing in our transgenesis facility named HOMOLOGOUS. In my job, I need to manage a lot of plasmids, primers, DNA, RNA, frozen cells and documents and LabCollector is clearly my preferred LIMS to control the activity of our transgenesis facilities."

— Dr Boulanger, Research Engineer at INRA

"With more than 15,000 samples data sheets well identified with a unique number, we can not imagine going back to an Excel file management!"

— Mrs Monnoye, Technician in Dr Boulanger's team

Mrs Monnoye at INRA lab — Mrs Monnoye manages 20+ new plasmids each week with LabCollector.

"I work in the transgenesis facility in the « Biologie du développement et reproduction » unit in the INRA research center of Jouy en Josas. I produce more than 20 new plasmids each week and I manage each intermediate plasmid in order to reuse them in other projects. For this work, LabCollector helps me each day in my research work."

"I am today responsible to form new users to LabCollector. I am also responsible of the quality in our team and LC is my first help and I find new applications to manage quality in our team. The last one is the management of the paper lab note books in the unit with the documents's module of LabCollector."

Seamless Sample Storage with Accessories

"We bought a computer on which a small label printer BRADY and a 2D barcode reader are connected. This system is situated directly in our lab in order to control samples and print the labels near the work bench."

To save a place in a box for one sample, it is as easy as a scan in your supermarket — just choose a place in the storage browser, and scan the label. The data sheet will be associated to the selected place.

Storage browser in LabCollector at INRA — Scan a barcode to assign a sample to a storage location — like scanning at the supermarket.

"We still need to make some manual activities for sticking the labels on small tubes but it is also possible to use pre-labelled plastic tubes and use the preprinted 1D barcode in LabCollector in order to associate a sample data sheet with a tube. In the storage browser, you can see the filling ratio of your boxes like when you are usually in front of your freezer. We sometimes print the plane of the box for control of each sample."

The unique identification number also concerns the box for your samples. Each box has a unique number and a unique position in all the storage freezers. It's now not necessary anymore to stay in front of your minus 80 freezer trying to know where is your box!

Topped with the Electronic Lab Notebook Add-on

"We use the electronic lab notebook for follow our experiments. The possibility to share, print and save our books in a PDF format is much more easier to work with than with a paper book. We can transfer pictures of agarose gels, results of immunochemistry, maps of plasmids etc."

"It is also possible to make a link between an experiment page with our samples managed by LabCollector. It is then easy to find back the good sample associated with one experiment."

ELN at INRA transgenesis facility — Link experiments in the ELN with samples managed in LabCollector.

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