The complete solution for managing your research data

Digital notebook

Data management

Inventory management

Inventory management

Whatever your research field, keep track of all materials and samples used in your lab. Create experimental procedures to share with all lab members.

Lab notebook

Describe your experiments and link them to the materials, samples and protocols stored in the inventory.

Data management

Make your data FAIR. Store all data of any size and format, connected to your experiments, via the web interface or API..

BigDataLink

Use openBIS as metadata repository and use our git-like tool to link large datasets across different locations.

Integrations for data analysis

Use Jupyter notebook to analyse your data and store your notebooks in openBIS. Use the APIs to integrate openBIS in your workflow manager to extract data for large-scale analysis on a computer cluster and upload results back to openBIS.

Import/Export

Excel import and export. Export of full lab notebooks and inventory folders to Excel and pdf..

Access and rights management

Full control of user profile and access privileges.

Audit trail

Keep track of all modifications entered in the database.

Modularity

Write your own plugins to extend existing functionalities or add new ones.

What our users say about openBIS

  • We work in the Materials Informatics Department on material simulations at BAM and have been using openBIS since November 2024. One of the main advantages for us is that it allows us to visualize workflows instead of isolated data sets. Not only can we share the data, but we can also communicate the research idea through hierarchy graphs. This was a crucial step in achieving FAIR workflows in addition to FAIR data.

    Pavlina Kruzikova & Tarakeshwar Lakshmipathy, Materials Informatics Department of Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM), Berlin - https://www.bam.de/Content/EN/Divisions/Divisions-Department-6/division-64.html

  • We began implementing openBIS as our ELN/LIMS system in 2020 across several laboratories at Empa. Since then, it has become a central cornerstone in our digitalization efforts. The key advantages include: 1. Essential tool for the FAIRification of all our work, ensuring compliance with EU and SNSF project requirements. 2. Documentation of all procedural steps in experiments, linking them to instruments, equipment, reagents, and related data. 3. Comprehensive inventories of all instruments, equipment, reagents, etc., documenting maintenance, user training, and repairs. 4. Direct upload to data repositories (e.g., Zenodo) and long-term archiving options, which are mandatory for most of our projects. 5. Continuous updates and feature development by a highly competent programming team, along with professional support.

    Matthias Rösslein, Empa - https://www.empa.ch/

  • We have been using openBIS since 2012 as our backbone system for managing life science data at the Quantitative Biology Center (QBiC) in Tübingen, Germany. Over the years we have scaled up from GBs to PBs using OpenBIS. We highly appreciate the system’s deep flexibility in customising data models, the routines for automation and the well-thought concept for the integration of large-scale, quantitative biomedical data.

    Sven Nahnsen, QBiC, Tübingen - https://uni-tuebingen.de/forschung/forschungsinfrastruktur/zentrum-fuer-quantitative-biologie-qbic/

  • openBIS is the central data management system in all the research projects in which I participate. This powerful and flexible tool enables us to do the following critical tasks easily: 1. Keep research data backed up using geo-redundant, near-line tape systems while also keeping several copies of the data on the fast parallel storage resources that are part of the computational resources; 2. Allow collaborators to upload and annotate data by themselves; 3. Monitor the data produced by scientific instruments and automatically make that data available to all project members; 4. Easily integrate openBIS with Jupyter notebooks with the pybis API; 5. Customise every aspect with the UI plugins and we have used these to allow users to submit workflows and upload data.

    Lars Malmström, S3IT, University of Zürich - https://www.id.uzh.ch/en/scienceit.html