Connecting Data, Processes, People
tick@lab is a-tune’s software solution for the management of Laboratory Animal Research Facilities. It covers all processes relevant for compliance, operations and animal welfare and provides a single point of access to relevant data and functionality to all persons involved from research, facility staff, compliance personnel and management.
tick@lab for Laboratory Animal Research Facilities…
- Mitigates compliance risks and the potentially significant financial risks related
- Pro-actively supports the 3Rs and Animal Welfare by creating transparency regarding animal availability and use
- Reduces time and costs through structured, centralized management of data and processes and integration with the existing application landscape
- Accelerates and increase cost recovery by automation and faster turn-around for billing and invoicing
Functionality. Fully integrated.
Feature overview
Compliance
- Management of Protocols and Reporting in accordance with respective legislations and guidelines (e.g. USDA APHIS, EU 2010/63, UK Home Office, German TSchG, other national regulations in Europe, Australia and Asia, AAALAC…)
- Real time tracking of animal numbers to ensure compliance with approved numbers
Animal Requests & Orders
- Configurable order approval process
- Printing of configurable order forms or integration with Finance and eProcurement Systems
- Order wizard for automated data check against protocol, validation rules and capacity
- Billing
Facility and Vivarium Management
- Definition and tracking of room capacity
- Room history and task management; customer defined data templates to replace paper forms
- Cage Management, Census, Billing
- Support of RFID and barcodes for cage identification, possibility to interface with “smart” rack and caging systems
Animal Management
- Customer designed cage cards with barcode capability
- Management of animals as batches or individuals
- Use of barcodes and RFID technologies for identification of animals and cages
- Extensive animal record including all animal data as for example sex, strain, id, genotype, date of birth, health data, history, weight progression and much more
- Documentation of experimental usage for Post Approval Monitoring, USDA and AALAC reporting
- Real-time Tracking of animal numbers for Protocols and of animal transfers between protocols
- Recording of study protocols
- Tagging and color marking
Colony Management and (transgenic) Breeding
- Management of breeding lines, loci, marking rules
- Use of barcodes and RFID technologies for identification of animals and cages
- Mating selection, pairing and timings
- Genotyping, import of results
- Tracking of genealogy
- Customer designed cage cards
- Tagging and color marking of animals
- Colony performance reporting
- Task Requests for planning and communication between facility staff and researchers
Veterinary and Experimental Records
- Customer designed templates for animal history records and tasks, for example for veterinary care, study management, science support
- Import capability for health records and history data
- Interfaces to Study Data management (e.g. Electronic Lab Notebooks, IDBS BioBook)
Billing and Invoicing
- Calculation of costs based on per diems, animal procurement, husbandry, services, …
- Generation of reports and invoices which can be easily customized by facility administrators
- Interfaces to financial systems
Task Management
- Tasks can be linked to animals, users, rooms
- Daily task list and management overview
- Configurable request and approval workflow
- Recurring tasks
- Use of customer defined data forms and templates to provide instructions and collect data
- Real time tracking and update of task and object history
tick@lab - The Basis
- Multi-Language Support
Choose between the standard languages English, French or German or define any other language package as required.
- Built-in Flexibility
The tick@lab framework enables administrators to configure templates, forms, cage cards, reports and even the user interface including labels, grid views and field properties.
- Integration Capabilities
tick@lab has been built for integration with the existing application landscape, offers a variety of (web service) interface and supports diverse integration technologies. Examples: Electronic Research Data Management (IDBS BioBook), Finance and Procurement (SAP, Oracle, Aggresso), Training Management (CITI, AALAS Learning Library), Authentication and Security (CAS, Shibboleth, Active Directory, LDAP) and a wide range of customer specific systems and applications.
- Browser independent web application – ready for mobile use
No client installation required, support for all standard browsers on all types of client devices including tablets.
- Audit Trail
Full audit trail capability to fulfil CFR21 Part 11 requirements and to enable GLP validation.
- tick@lab from the Cloud
tick@lab is available as a secure, fully managed cloud service reducing infrastructure requirements to the browser and the internet connection.
- DataMart for ad-hoc Reporting, Data Analysis and Integration
tick@lab - Services
a-tune offers a holistic range of services for the successful and cost and time effective implementation and possibly operation of tick@lab including
- Process analysis and modelling
- System configuration and Interfacing
- Technical consulting (e.g. Oracle, Amazon Cloud...)
- Training for Users, Administrators, Technical Training
- tick@lab Cloud Services
- Operational Support on premise
- …
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