• See how Sample Manager can level-up your lab work.
• Getting started with Sample Manager
• LabKey Sample Manager - Guided Tours

LabKey Sample Manager is one of a suite of LabKey products designed to help you track the entire lifecycle of samples in your lab and all associated research data. The topics in this section will help you learn to use the Starter Edition of Sample Manager. All related products use the same general interface, adding additional functionality at each tier.

• Sample Manager Starter Edition
• Sample Manager Professional Edition
• LabKey LIMS
• LabKey Biologics

Sample Manager Starter Edition

The intuitive interface makes it easy to:

• Manage and track your laboratory samples with customizable types and sources.
• Use storage management tools to track locations of samples in freezers and other storage. (Learn more in the documentation.)
• Retain an audit ready log of actions performed on every sample.

Sample Manager Professional Edition

With the Professional Edition of Sample Manager, you will have all of the Starter Edition features, plus be able to:

• Create laboratory workflows and standardize sample processing.
• Upload associated assay and experiment result data and link it to your samples.
• Record your work in electronic lab notebooks integrated directly with your data. (Learn more in the documentation.)
• Partition your data by folder, sharing a storage environment and other resources.

LabKey LIMS

LabKey LIMS includes all features in the Professional Edition of Sample Manager, and adds more, including but not limited to:

• Generate customizable reports with ease.
• Add automation with transformation scripts for assay data.
• Customize the downloadable templates available to users importing data

Biologics LIMS

Biologics adds even more functionality to what is available with LabKey LIMS. Learn more here:

• Biologics LIMS Documentation

Topics

• Get Started with Sample Manager
• Sample Manager Dashboard
• Folder Organization
• User Accounts, Groups, and Roles

More Answers

• Release Notes: Sample Manager: What has changed in each version of Sample Manager.
• Sample Manager - FAQ

How Do I Know the Version of my Application

An administrator can see which version is running by selecting > Application Settings. The version is shown in the upper right of every tab in the Administration section.

Using Sample Manager with Google Translate

Note that if you are using Google Translate and run into an error similar to the following, it may be due to an "expected" piece of text not appearing in the displayed language at the time the application expects it. Try refreshing the browser or temporarily disabling Google Translate to complete the action.

Failed to execute 'removeChild' on 'Node': The node to be removed is not a child of this node.