I setup a similar app for my lab when I was starting my PhD. It worked for a while because it was the easiest way to generate a purchase order. But over time, it became harder and harder to get people to keep using it, let along keep things up to date. It's all about how to keep things simple and to make the system easier to use than what they use now, which is likely nothing.
Well, that and I never wanted anyone else touching my enzymes. Anyone that ventured into my enzyme box without telling me was harshly dealt with.
I just realized that the above statement sounds strange if you're not a life sciences researcher... :)
I'm onboard. You know that group that "discovered" that chronic fatigue was caused by retroviruses? And how that discovery was later shown to most likely have been due to contamination of their reagents? That's the sort of shit that you fear when doing research. Although of course you avoid sharing not because of that, but because others didn't share the same superstitions when handling the reagents. :)
Well, that and I never wanted anyone else touching my enzymes. Anyone that ventured into my enzyme box without telling me was harshly dealt with.
I just realized that the above statement sounds strange if you're not a life sciences researcher... :)