Getting Started with Sources

Almost all experiments have some kind of physical entity (rather than a file on a computer) that play some role in the project, whether they're human participants providing cheek swabs, yeast strains cultivated in the lab, or cells collected from animal subjects. And more often than not, these entities undergo transformations, across one or many processes (for example, slicing something up or plating a substance). Ovation allows you to capture all the metadata associated with those sources, and allows you to make associations between the sources and the data that experiments on them generate. Take a look below about how to add a new source to associating all of that with the data you're storing in Ovation. Note that at this time, sources live outside of a project, so that if your lab shares specimens, but everyone's working on their own project, there's no confusion!

Note: Summer of 2017 will see some big changes to how we handle sources or records in a database. Get in touch with us to learn more about what we have planned, and let us hear your two cents.