Patent ID: 7555492

Claim:
A laboratory data management and protocol creation system, used to create an experiment plan or protocol, including: (a) an ontology knowledge module embedded in a server architecture that enables controlled simultaneous access by multiple users, wherein the server architecture comprises a computer processor, configured to store characteristics and controlled references for at least one of laboratory reagents, experiment subjects, tissues and cells as data in the ontology knowledge module; (b) an experiment input module configured to accept input of at least one parameter of an experiment to be executed, wherein the at least one parameter of the experiment is selected from entries in the configured ontology knowledge module, and wherein the at least one parameter is annotated with data from the experiment input module; and (c) an automated protocol creator module connected to the ontology knowledge module and the experiment input module, wherein the automated protocol creator module is configured to create and annotate a laboratory protocol for an experiment that then is executed based on inputs from the ontology knowledge module and the experiment input module.