Labguru Overview

What is Labguru?

• Labguru is a research management system – combining both worlds of ELN and LIMS

• Labguru centralizes all aspects of your lab: project planning, inventory, specimens and molecular entities, equipment scheduling, reference libraries and much more

• Labguru will help you keep all your research related information in one place and in context.

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In the next slides we will guide you through setting up your account & introduce you to Labguru’s basic layout and functions

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Introduction

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1 Click your name to view your profile

3 Set a new password, if desired

Edit your personal information, upload your photo, reset password and view your privileges (as granted by your PI)

4 Hover over the default image, click the ‘change

picture’ button and upload your photo

2 Edit your personal

information

Set up your profile

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1 Click your account name and choose

‘Settings’

3 Verify/edit your account details

2 Select tab for editing/reviewing

Account Set up – Admins only

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Select your molecular and specimen collections from our pre-defined list or easily add your own

custom collection

Account Set up – Admins only

2 To add a new member to the lab, send him an e-mail invitation or

add him manually. He will receive an email instructing him how to

enter the account

3 Click on a member’s name to edit his profile and

privileges

1 Click your account name

and choose ‘Members’ to

view/add members

Invite members – Admins only

2 Check the relevant boxes for each member :• For research student, uncheck all boxes

• Read only: restricted user - can view but not add/edit

• Can approve orders: reserved for lab manager/tech or similar position that manage the lab orders

• Can administer system: Equivalent to PI, can view and edit everyone’s work

• Can sign & lock: reserved for supervisor or similar position that can sign completed experiments

1 Add info of the new member

Members’ privileges – Admins only

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3 Your items will be displayed in a customizable index table. Click on a item to access full

details

2 Use the navigation bar to select the module and sub module you wish to work

with

1 Use the top panel for settings, messaging, general

search and contacting our support

Introducing Labguru’s layout

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1 This is a common page for all samples in the system.

Related information & actions can be found under

the relevant tab

2 Use the right panel to perform actions

(thoroughly explained later on)

Introducing Labguru’s layout

Throughout Labguru you may

1. Add2. Tag3. Link4. Attach5. Comment6. Search

See this short video for demonstration and examples.

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Labguru’s 6 essential functions

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Now that your Labguru account is set up you may proceed and explore the various modules.

The next guide (“Research overview”) will walk you through populating your research module with your experiments.

Questions? Contact support@biodata.com

What’s next?