NUcore

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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 (2011-03-07)[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, the software continues to receive updates, though it has no formal version numbers.

Features

Base features include[1][2]:

  • 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

External links

References

  1. 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. 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. 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. 
  4. 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. 
  5. "tablexi / nucore-open". GitHub. https://github.com/tablexi/nucore-open. Retrieved 26 June 2023.