lara-django 0.2.6

LARA-django is a python django project of the Lab Automation Suite LARA - (lara.uni-greifswald.de/larasuite)

LARA django is a collection of applications for storing, evaluating and presenting experimental data and its meta data, based on python-django. LARA has the following features:

• holistic approach, which covers: - project planning - process generation and organisation - container management (barcodes, layout) - data evaluation and visualisation - subtances management and ordering - user management

• small, efficient and fast code

• modular, fully flexible plugin architecture, support for virtually any open programming language

image:: docs/figures/lara-django-menu.png

Overview of the packages

• lara-django [core] - core of the lara-django project (required)

• lara-people [core] - management of all users/institutions/addresses

• lara-projects [core] - management of all projects and experiments

• lara-data [core] - all data goes here

• lara-metainfo [core] - all kind of meta information goes here

• lara-substances [optional] - chemicals, substances, DNA, proteins

• lara-devices [optional] - lab devices

Installation of lara-django

The simplest way to install lara-django and the rest of the core packages, simply execute

cd [lara-django repository directory] python3 install-lara-django.py

This will guide you through the complete setup

lara-django django can be installed : plain and in a virtual python environment (venv).

The recommended way to install lara-django is to install it in a virtualenv environment.

Acknowledgements

The LARA-django developers thank

• the python team

• the R team

• the whole django team (https://www.djangoproject.com/) for their great tool !

• mptt developers

• the blockly team (https://developers.google.com/blockly/ and https://github.com/google/blockly) for their visual programming language

• Vladimir (Владимир) from pyinto (https://github.com/pyinto) for his inspirations on how to setup the ordering system and what you can do with css and JavaSkript

References