LabKey Biologics: Home Page
The main dashboard on the home page provides quick links into different aspects of the data.
The top header bar is available throughout the application and includes:
- The clickable logo, for returning to this dashboard at any time.
- A main Menu button, giving access to all of your data and activities.
- A set of common resources in the upper right:
On the dashboard, you'll see panels displaying:
- Dashboard Insights: A selectable set of visualizations, defaulting to the Sample Count by Status.
- Sample Types can be selectively excluded from the graphs on this dashboard, as described here.
- Notebooks: See task status, recent notebooks, and link to your Electronic Lab Notebooks dashboard.
- Storage List: At a glance storage details and access to your virtual freezers.
- Jobs List: The home for workflow jobs. If any tasks were assigned to you, they would be shown on Your Job Queue and can be filtered by priority.
Header Menus
The menus in the upper right offer these selections:
Navigation
The main
Menu is available throughout the application and gives you quick access to all aspects of Biologics. It will include the name of the category you are in ("Dashboard" if not one of the specific categories).
Click the menu categories for sub-dashboards, such as for the Registry, Notebooks, or Sample Types. Click individual menu items for that specific category.
The home page for any registry type provides tabs linking to other entity home pages, here viewing "Molecules". Click a different entity type to switch your view. Use the
and icons to scroll if needed.
Bioregistry
The Registry dashboard shows all of the unique Registry Source Types available, such as Molecules, Expression Systems, Cell Lines, etc. Click a name or directly select one from the main menu to learn more or register new entities:
Click
See Entity Relationships to see the various source types and relationships recognized by the registry. Learn more in this topic:
Biologics: Terminology.
Registry Source Details
Each source in the registry has an Overview page which includes basic properties, a grid about any samples created from it, links to any notebooks which reference it, and a list of related registry source entities. The
Manage menu lets you create new sources or samples with the selected registry source as a parent.
Detail pages include multiple tabs for details including Lineage. Some Registry Source Types, including Protein and Nucleotide Sequences, also include a tab for Sequence, shown here.
Related Topics
Learn more about each aspect of the Biologics LIMS in these detailed topics:
