Project management software for biolabs

[Tom Hodder]

Hi All,

I am looking for a Project management web app to manage biolab infrastructure and planning for event tasks. 

This is to augment our existing tools such as a wiki (for static documentation), or open wet ware (for protocols etc)

There seems to be a bit of cross over of this requirement to software delivery, in that I would like to have projects like "Biosafety inspection" or maybe "Makerfaire UK event", and have a list of task dependencies, and (it would be nice) if it could also allow cost estimates to allow for starting pledges for equipment etc.

I am currently looking at https://basecamp.com/ and https://trello.com/ and the thing I liked about basecamp was that you could just email the project, and it would try and parse the attachments off the email sensibly, which was very nice when on an android device and typing was a PITN.

Any suggestions would be welcome.

Cheers,

Tom

[Sebastian Cocioba]

Labguru.com? You could probably email them and ask for a discounted or free license. They have a limited version free for personal use. It integrates other members into a well organized "Facebook" like message system with tags and customizable features. Its like a digital la notebook and trello all in one.

Sebastian S. Cocioba
CEO & Founder
New York Botanics, LLC
Plant Biotech R&D

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[DIYBIO Groningen]

I suggest you Stepsie. It is a project manager with a pretty easy layout, you can set tasks, assign people to tasks, share files and discuss all in one platform. No software installation needed, it works on any browser, on any device. Have a look!

 http://stepsie.com/ 

http://vimeo.com/87084918

[Dakota Hamill]

I've come to like Zoho, upgraded to it from asana, but I havn't tried the others

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[Nathan McCorkle]

I've been tweaking a lab manager for a company recently, its written
in django using the django admin interface and using the Grappelli
plugin, it works decently if you just need to enter and read data...
if you need to do custom input pages or output pages it isn't too
hard, but it is some work.

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[drllau]

We (speaking on behalf of an ICT co-op downunder in NZ) can do a redmine (http://www.redmine.org/) innstance for flat price

It is a full-blown FLOSS project management (with addons like Kaban) but modules can be culled to make a simple notification, tasksline monitor

The extra advantage is that because it is in NZ .. you won't get get hit by software patents :-)

PS ... if non-profit, can do something special.
Lawrence

[Tom Hodder]

On 1 April 2014 21:03, drllau <drlawr...@gmail.com> wrote:

We (speaking on behalf of an ICT co-op downunder in NZ) can do a redmine (http://www.redmine.org/) innstance for flat price

It is a full-blown FLOSS project management (with addons like Kaban) but modules can be culled to make a simple notification, tasksline monitor

I've used redmine in my dayjob, it's a really good bug tracker which integrates with SCM, but it's not really what we are looking for with a bunch of non-techies... (are molecular biologists non-techies? its a science isn't it, can you have a non-technical science?)

We put it to the vote and it was decided that 

1) blueberry muffins are definitely superior to double chocolate, though there was some dissent recorded in the meeting minutes.

2) we would try asana.com  (over basecamp and Trello, as it seemed more grown up)

3) we shall do a labguru.com evaluation at some point in the near future. (possibly)

Cheers,

Tom

 

[Tom Hodder]

On 4 April 2014 01:39, Tom Hodder <t...@limepepper.co.uk> wrote:

 

2) we would try asana.com  (over basecamp and Trello, as it seemed more grown up)

I evaluated stepsie for a day, and I felt that it lacked features compared to basecamp and trello.

My experience was positive, and it was very pretty and clearly easy to get started with, but I kind of run out of stuff to mess about with much too quickly...

[Patrik D'haeseleer]

We tried Trello for a while at Counter Culture Labs, but felt like it didn't really suit our needs. It doesn't have much of a scheduling/calendar function, for example.

We've switched to Asana recently, but I don't have enough experience with it so far.

Patrik

[DIYBIO Groningen]

The Groningen iGEM team is using Stepsie www.stepsie.com and they are really happy with it. It is true that is lacking some features but they are incrementing it day by day, it is really new.

In my opinion anyway no project management is really complete right now and the only solution is to use google documents and google drive and google calendar in combination with your project management software.

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