NexusLIMS

NexusLIMS manages and consolidates experimental data and metadata for multi-user electron microscopy facilities to standardize metadata capture and support reproducible research.

Key Features:

• Network Infrastructure: A networked architecture supports integration and communication across facility information technology resources.
• Custom Software Package: A software component harvests and extracts experimental data from instrument and institutional sources to construct comprehensive experimental records.
• Metadata Conformance: Generated metadata conforms to the Nexus Experiment schema for standardized documentation of experiments.

Scientific Applications:

• Shared electron microscopy facilities: Centralizing and organizing data produced in multi-user electron microscopy environments to support collaborative experiments.
• Metadata standardization and reproducibility: Applying the Nexus Experiment schema to improve reproducibility and transparency of electron microscopy experiments.
• Experimental record aggregation: Compiling metadata and experimental data from diverse sources to create comprehensive records for each experiment.

Methodology:

A custom software package harvests and extracts experimental data from diverse sources and constructs comprehensive metadata records that conform to the Nexus Experiment schema.