What does it do ?
The eGenVar system provides a easy and systematic way to manage and advertise data. A set of tags and relationships between the donors, samples and files are used when locating information
- Organise data
- Record the relationships between different files using lineage instead of relying on folders
- Record the content description using tags selected from Ontologies (the controlled vocabulary terms)
- Organise all related data , regardless of their location using reports
- View all private, public, unpublished and data residing in collaborators computers as a report batch
- Using standardised metadata make it possible anyone to find what they are looking for not only the person created it
- Link
- Link the different files using lineage
- Link to files to samples
- Use tags to get a system which is more than the collection of parts
- Advertise
- Tell the other researchers what you have
- Makes it possible for you to find what you are looking for.
- Locate
- Find controls
- Avoid repeating the same thing or errors
- Find experts t o collaborate
- Discover hidden data, kept in that way due to privacy reasons