NUcore
| Original author(s) | Feinberg Research Office, Northwestern University Office for Research, Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center[1] |
|---|---|
| Developer(s) | Table XI[2] |
| Initial release | March 7, 2011[3] |
| Written in | Ruby, Haml |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| Available in | English |
| Type | Resource booking software |
| License(s) | MIT License |
| Website | https://github.com/tablexi/nucore-open |
NUcore (Northwestern University Core Facility Management Software) is a free open-source core facility management application that allows order management and tracking, billing, and resource scheduling for laboratories.[1]
Product history
With a 2008 reorganization of Northwestern University's core facility program came a need for a software platform able to standardize order management, billing, instrument scheduling, and reporting for its more than 50 core facilities, which are "centralized technology-based laboratories that maintain and support sophisticated equipment for use by their host institution's researchers and ... external customers."[2][4] Coding of the system, NUcore, commenced in 2010, designed to be "a basic system that could be iteratively expanded as cores enrolled and provided feedback on their needs."[2] The first fruits of this labor made their way to GitHub in early March 2011[3], at the behest of Feinberg School of Medicine's Office of General Counsel and technology transfer office.[2] Testing and enrollment into the system began in 2011 at Northwestern University, with third-party developer Table XI maintaining the software over GitHub going forward.
As of October 2023[update], the software continues to receive updates, though it has no formal version numbers.
Features
- purchase items
- request services
- schedule instruments
- order status checks
- billing management
- role-based security
- journal management
- NETID authentication
- reporting
- data visualization
- training management
- email support
- interactive dashboards
Installing optional modules allows the user to also[5]:
- accept credit card and purchase orders
- split billed charges across different accounts
- connect to Dataprobe Power Relays
- manage projects
- manage sequencing and well plates
- authenticate against an LDAP server
- authenticate with SSO via SAML
Hardware/software requirements
Docker and Docker Compose are required to install the software. However, the software can also be installed locally; for more about installation, see the start page for NUcore.
Videos, screenshots, and other media
Entities using NUcore
Northwest University still uses this software.
Further reading
- Weiss, Jeffrey; Hockberger, Philip; Shamaly, Todd; Rosen, Aaron; Lewandosky, Linda; Chisholm, Rex L. (2021). "NUcore at 10: A Decade of Experience Developing a Core Facilities Management Application". Journal of Biomolecular Techniques : JBT 32 (4): 3fc1f5fe.3a4b405c. doi:10.7171/3fc1f5fe.3a4b405c. ISSN 1524-0215. PMC 9258607. PMID 35837266. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9258607/.
External links
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "What Is NUcore?". Feinberg School of Medicine. Northwestern University. https://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/research/cores/nucore/index.html. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Weiss, Jeffrey; Hockberger, Philip; Shamaly, Todd; Rosen, Aaron; Lewandosky, Linda; Chisholm, Rex L. (2021). "NUcore at 10: A Decade of Experience Developing a Core Facilities Management Application". Journal of Biomolecular Techniques : JBT 32 (4): 3fc1f5fe.3a4b405c. doi:10.7171/3fc1f5fe.3a4b405c. ISSN 1524-0215. PMC 9258607. PMID 35837266. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9258607/.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Gore, J. (7 March 2011). "tablexi / nucore-open / Commit / Initial fork". GitHub. https://github.com/tablexi/nucore-open/commit/af8eb29496218d76e645461e872efb64f1cc4993. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
- ↑ Gould, Julie (1 March 2015). "Core facilities: Shared support" (in en). Nature 519 (7544): 495–496. doi:10.1038/nj7544-495a. ISSN 0028-0836. https://www.nature.com/articles/nj7544-495a.
- ↑ "tablexi / nucore-open". GitHub. https://github.com/tablexi/nucore-open. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
