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I did something like that for plasmids by putting together a web interface, php, and MySQL. It was simple, maybe a little ugly, but worked nicely. The problem was convincing anyone to actually use it was virtually impossible. --paul On 08/18/2010 04:52 AM, Andreas Förster wrote: > Dear all, > > going through some previous lab member's data and trying to make sense > of it, I was wondering what kind of solutions exist to simply the > archiving and retrieval process. > > In particular, what I have in mind is a web interface that allows a user > who has just returned from the synchrotron or the in-house detector to > fill in a few boxes (user, name of protein, mutant, light source, > quality of data, number of frames, status of project, etc) and then > upload his data from the USB stick, portable hard drive or remote storage. > > The database application would put the data in a safe place (some file > server that's periodically backed up) and let users browse through all > the collected data of the lab with minimal effort later. > > I doesn't seem too hard to implement this, which is why I'm asking if > anyone has done so already. > > Thanks. > > > Andreas > -- Paul Paukstelis, Ph.D Assistant Professor University of Maryland Chemistry & Biochemistry Dept. Center for Biomolecular Structure & Organization [log in to unmask] 301-405-9933