Anand Kolatkar and Joshua Kunken presented a talk at the AIRI Annual Meeting in Seattle, WA on October 7, 2009.
Managing rapidly increasing volumes of data and effectively sharing that data with geographically distributed collaborators with varying specialties present key challenges for laboratory researchers. This session describes the use of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (and SQL Server 2008 as a backend) in the laboratory setting to meet these challenges by enabling a variety of functions, including workflow management for grant and manuscript preparation activities, data stores for scientific information (Excel spreadsheets, OneNote electronic notebooks, PDFs), as well as the repository for information managed via Windows smart client applications developed in the laboratory: C-ME for 3-dimensional annotation of molecules, ReceptorScope for protein structure determination workflow management, and OncoScope for workflow tracking of biological samples through a dynamic laboratory process.