I have recently been put in charge of managing our department's -80°C cryostorage (ah the duties of a new PhD student...). Organization is chaotic: people come and go; they add new and forget old samples in the freezers... knowing what belongs to whom and whether or not we can toss it out can be impossible.
To ease department-wide, laboratory-wide and individual organization and tracking, we need a web-based system. Flexibility is the key word: some samples may be 1.5mL tubes of RNA hidden away in boxes and towers, and others may be whole birds or frogs. A superuser should be allowed to attribute space, while "simple" users should have complete control over their own space.
