Working as a lab

Phones and cage cards

Use BioManager on a phone, and print cage cards and labels that open records when scanned.

Android

Install BioManager-Android.apk from the download page (allow your browser to install apps when asked), type your lab server's address once, and you're in. The Scan button reads cage cards.

iPhone and iPad

Open the server in Safari and tap Share → Add to Home Screen. BioManager gets its own icon and opens full screen like an app; your camera scans cage cards. (Android without the app: Chrome → ⋮ → Install app.)

Cage cards

Cages → Cage cards prints cards sized for standard card stock — owner, purpose, where it goes (rack and position), animals with how many of each sex, genotype and a QR code. Scanning it opens that cage, ready to edit, at the rack. Tank labels (Zebrafish), Labels on a fly or worm database, and Labels on ticked samples, reagents or any inventory's rows do the same for tanks, vials and tubes.

Label printers

Print on chooses a sheet of cards for any printer, or a label printer's roll: Brother QL (62 × 29, 90 × 29, 100 × 62 mm), Zebra (2 × 1, 3 × 1, 4 × 2, 4 × 2.5 in) or cryo-tube labels. It then prints one label a page, typed to fit; in the print dialog pick the label printer and that label size, margins None. Your choice is remembered. For tubes, On each label chooses what a label says (box, position, lot, owner, a column such as concentration, the day printed), remembered for each database, and Two lines for long text wraps a long name or place instead of cutting it. For a Zebra, Download for Zebra (.zpl) gives the labels in its own language; or an admin adds the Zebra's address on the lab's network once (under Send labels straight to a Zebra), and Send to Zebra prints them at once.