BIOBANK
CBSR Inventory is a web-based tool developed by the Alberta Ingenuity Centre for Machine Learning, Bruce Ritchie in the Faculty of Medicine and Nelson Loyola in AICML, to control robotic processing, storage and retrieval of biologic samples and efficiently track sample inventory. CBSR Inventory is an open source, multi-platform, client-server application designed to be part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) caBIG information network.
BioBank is a suite of Java applications that run on Microsoft Windows or Linux. The following applications make up the suite:
- Web Based Client Analytic tools for researchers and collaborators to examine the information stored in the inventory.
- Java Client Meant to be used by CBSR technicians to administer and add information to the system. Interfaces to a flatbed scanner to read 2D barcodes on sample tubes. Also interfaces and controls a sample processing robot and a robot to store and manages samples in a temperature controlled freezer.
- JBoss based Backend An N-Tiered application that provides: persistence, application framework, security interception, security filters and client interfaces. The backend supports the caGrid API.