AN INFORMATION MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL SYSTEM

摘要

A scientific information management and control system comprises laboratory managers (5-8) each for exposing interfaces for managing lifecycles of dedicated objects to implement a work flow with state actions and object flow for management of laboratory experiments. A resource manager (6) for manages life-cycle of material and equipment resource objects. A classifications manager (5) manages life-cycle of resource classification objects containing the resource objects. A task manager (7) manages life-cycles of task objects. A procedure manager (8) manages life-cycles of procedure objects. A task comprises multiple procedures. The classification objects include equipment classification and material classification objects linked with resource classification objects, and the resource objects inherit from the resource classification objects. A design-of-experiment engine (2) interfaces with the objects managed by the laboratory managers (5-8) and generates experiment run objects. An experiment manager (3) generates low-level objects according to the run objects generated by the design-of-experiment engine (2) and according to the procedure objects generated by the procedure manager (8). The experiment manager (3) and the laboratory managers (5-8) comprise an interface to external systems. This interface parses mark-up language (ENML) received from external systems to determine data and instructions for experiment runs.