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Prototype app for new inventory model
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Categorize Container Types #4

Open dvnstrcklnd opened 3 years ago

dvnstrcklnd commented 3 years ago

Many containers come in a variety of types. For example, a 96-well plate can have a variety of shapes, surface treatments, and optical properties.

It might be useful to have a generic Categorizable

dvnstrcklnd commented 3 years ago

@bjkeller I am finding that both sample types and container types lend themselves to categories. What do you think about having a polymorphic categorizable model?

dvnstrcklnd commented 3 years ago

Alternatively, search could take care of this problem.

bjkeller commented 3 years ago

there will probably be an ontology for containers out of the SD2 PAML effort. If we are able to use the ontology we might not need to build a class hierarchy of our own

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