When working with specimen tracking software, organization is key. It is important that users be able to quickly and easily identify their work from among the many batches, specimens, studies, subjects, etc. that may exist in a single database. BSI helps facilitate this easy identification in a number of ways. One way BSI provides organization for the user is through the My Specimens manager, a space designed to display and store records of user identified specimens.
The My Specimens manager is a composite of all specimens on a user’s database that have been specifically identified and added, composing a list of user-relevant specimens and the data associated with them. Anywhere throughout BSI that individual specimens are listed or displayed, these specimens can be highlighted and added to MY Specimens, using the right click menu option. Users can even create groupings within My Specimens; these groupings are completely user-defined and users can add as many groups as they’d like. These groups can then be selected when adding records to MY Specimens from anywhere in BSI. From the My Specimens manager, users can filter in a number of ways to see different data sets; users can filter by My Specimen group to see a particular set of specimens, then subsequently filter further by data set. The data sets available will show specimen, sample or subject level information. Users can also perform searches within My Specimens in order to identify particular specimens or groups of specimens with the My Specimens listing. The My Specimens manager is set up as an interactive table, and as such users can manipulate rows and columns, sort by fields and even highlight rows to perform additional tasks on specimens.
A database may hold thousands and thousands of specimens, recorded throughout countless batches and locations. My Specimens helps users to maintain organization of their work and keep track of the specimens that are important to them.