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OpenFreezer: a reagent information management software system

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The rapid growth of large-scale reagent collections that are necessary for systems-level biological approaches has brought about a concomitant need for extensible and flexible tracking systems to manage such resources. To meet this need, we developed OpenFreezer, an open-source, web-based enterprise software application, which maintains detailed and standardized documentation on common laboratory reagents. OpenFreezer tracks both large-scale reagent collections and individual reagents in a laboratory via a centralized repository that allows for easy access, sharing and management of data across projects and research groups. As such, OpenFreezer will be of interest to researchers in a broad range of laboratories and institutes of varying magnitude.

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We thank N. Mohammad, L. Ng and J. Wei for systems administration support, K. Hersi for software testing, J. Moffat, T. Ketela, S. Baird and B. Zhao for beta-testing the software, and G. Bader, M. Puri, H. Friesen and A. Baryshnikova for critical reading of the manuscript. This work was supported by funds from Genome Canada through the Ontario Genomics Institute, Canadian Foundation for Innovation, and the Ontario Research Fund GL2 program. OpenFreezer is dedicated in loving memory of Larisa Olhovsky.

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    Marina Olhovsky, Kelly Williton, Anna Yue Dai, Adrian Pasculescu, John Paul Lee, Marilyn Goudreault, Jin Gyoon Park, Anne-Claude Gingras, Tony Pawson & Karen Colwill

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