Satpal - following up on last weeks conversation about setting due dates for actions. In some cases a date is when the action needs to happen by. But actually for us in the CCFC more often a "Rejuvenation" action would need to be scheduled when the number of items drops below a set level. For example with liquid nitrogen preserved specimens, when we get down to 2 tube left, we make new ones to bring the number stored back up to 4. With freeze dried material when we get down to 3 ampoules, we make new ones to bring it back up.
This brings it back to our repeated discussions about batches vs unique material samples.
Currently we don't do "surveys" of what has low numbers, we have no real way to summarise that from SeqDB - but instead whenever we are handling material we check on the inventory and make lists of items that require rejuvenation.
So to be able to do that interactively with the database we would need a search like - search for those specimens that have fewer than 3 LN tubes left alive with storage information.
Something to think about especially now that I saw that quantitive option for dealing with mixed specimens, and how that might be another way to model copies of the same material sample.
Satpal - following up on last weeks conversation about setting due dates for actions. In some cases a date is when the action needs to happen by. But actually for us in the CCFC more often a "Rejuvenation" action would need to be scheduled when the number of items drops below a set level. For example with liquid nitrogen preserved specimens, when we get down to 2 tube left, we make new ones to bring the number stored back up to 4. With freeze dried material when we get down to 3 ampoules, we make new ones to bring it back up.
This brings it back to our repeated discussions about batches vs unique material samples.
Currently we don't do "surveys" of what has low numbers, we have no real way to summarise that from SeqDB - but instead whenever we are handling material we check on the inventory and make lists of items that require rejuvenation.
So to be able to do that interactively with the database we would need a search like - search for those specimens that have fewer than 3 LN tubes left alive with storage information.
For another project I had to frankenstein a search that from seqdb exports that Karim helped me with. https://redmine.biodiversity.agr.gc.ca/issues/23878
Something to think about especially now that I saw that quantitive option for dealing with mixed specimens, and how that might be another way to model copies of the same material sample.
Tara