Projects and Experiments
Use Projects for research goals and Experiments for reproducible scientific records.
Projects and Experiments are where EpistaBase keeps science from becoming a loose pile of files.
Projects
A Project groups experiments, files, reports, and collaborators for one biological goal.
Use a Project for:
- a drug-response program
- a screen or campaign
- a cell-line characterization effort
- a set of related assays for one paper or decision
Projects can show overview information, experiments, data, analysis outputs, reports, and settings.
Experiments
An Experiment is one scientific question and its execution record.
Use an Experiment for:
- the hypothesis or question
- protocol snapshot
- runs and samples
- linked data entries and files
- notebook notes
- analyses
- figures and reports
Runs and Samples
A Run is one execution. Examples: one flow acquisition run, one qPCR plate, one treatment batch, one sequencing library preparation.
A Sample belongs to a Run. That matters because sample labels without run context are ambiguous.
Data in Experiments
The Experiment Data tab can show entries grouped or flat. When a data entry links to a raw file, opening it should lead to file detail and the relevant viewer.
For reproducibility, link data to the Experiment as early as possible. Later analyses and figures can then inherit a meaningful context rather than a bare file ID.