Fig. 1.

(a) Example applications of LabxDB for lab management and research data annotation. (b) Diagram describing the client–server structure of LabxDB. Server stores the data in PostgreSQL, hosts the data model and responds to client requests. Communications between the client and the server are using a RESTful API, while the results of SQL queries addressed to PostgreSQL are returned as JSON data. To implementLabxDB databases (such as LabxDB seq), generic request handlers (Search, Alter etc.) and generic views (Table, Form etc.) are used to implement the server and client sides respectively. Technologies used are indicated in light gray. (Color version of this figure is available at Bioinformatics online.)