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Inventory

Is it in the freezer, or do we order it again?

Most labs track stock in a spreadsheet that is half complete and never quite trusted. SLIM gives every sample a typed, complete, alert-backed record, so the answer is one search away.

The problem

A spreadsheet inventory is only as good as the last person who filled it in.

Units are inconsistent, key details are missing, and nothing warns you before something runs out or expires. So people stop trusting it, and start re-ordering just to be safe.

Five spellings of one unit

50 ng/ul, 0.05 µg/µL and “~5” in one column, so nothing can be sorted or compared.

Half-filled rows

No owner, no location, no expiry date. The row exists; the sample may not.

Surprises at the bench

You find out the kit is empty or the antibiotic has expired the moment you reach for it.

Try it yourself

Add a sample and watch the alerts.

Try to save a sample with a field missing, set an alert threshold, filter to what needs attention, and open any record.

A live demo running in your browser. Nothing you type is saved or sent anywhere.

How SLIM handles it

An inventory that stays complete on its own.

Solves: Five spellings of one unit

Columns with real types and units

Your lab decides once what each warehouse records. A concentration column only takes a number and a unit, a date column only takes a date, so everything stays sortable and comparable.

  • Fourteen column types, several built for biology
  • Unit groups for mass, volume, concentration and molar
  • Identifier columns stop duplicates arriving
Green Gate cloning · New item
NamepGGB004
Concentration50 ng/µL
Position-20 °C · Box 3
Expiry12 Dec 2026
OwnerJiří Hermann

Saved · every value typed and sortable

Solves: Half-filled rows

Required fields: no half-done records

Mark the fields your lab cannot do without. A record missing one simply will not save, so the inventory stays complete without anybody chasing people.

  • Set once per warehouse
  • Enforced for everyone, on every device
  • Gaps in older records are flagged for the lab
Green Gate cloning · New item
NameAmpicillin stock
Concentration100 mg/mL
Position4 °C · Door
OwnerRequired

Cannot save yet: Owner is required.

Solves: Surprises at the bench

Alerts before something runs out or expires

Put a threshold on any number and a warning on any date. SLIM raises it for the whole lab, across every warehouse, before an experiment depends on it.

  • Low-stock thresholds on any number
  • Expiry warnings on any date
  • One alert list across all warehouses
Genomics · Active alerts
FC-1031Flow Cells · Active pores below 800
Rapid Barcoding KitLibrary Kits · Reactions left down to 3
NX-2026-117Sequencing Core · Use by in 6 days
EC-008Glycerol Stocks · Box / position is empty

Solves: getting your data in

Bring your spreadsheet, or let us do it

Import a CSV or Excel export with a preview that flags problems row by row before anything is written. Or send the file to us and we migrate it for you.

  • Up to 5,000 rows per file
  • Delimiter detected automatically
  • Nothing is written until you confirm
Green Gate cloning · Freezer 2A18 specimens
NameText · requiredConcentrationMeasurementPositionDropdownExpiryDate · alertsOwnerPerson
pGG-A-35S50 ng/µL-20 °C · Box 3RequiredJiří Hermann
Ampicillin stock100 mg/mL4 °C · Door3 Nov · 67 daysRequired
Col-0 seeds 2024RequiredSeed room · Shelf 21 Sep 2027Viktor Šimek
Primer M13F100 µM-20 °C · Box A30 Jun 2027Helena Marešová

What changes for your lab

  • “Do we have it?” is answered with one search
  • No more safety re-orders of things already in the freezer
  • A complete inventory without anybody chasing people for missing details
Book a 30-min demoSee it working on your own data.

The column types

Every warehouse picks its own. Nothing is fixed by us.

TypeWhat it holds
TextA name, a note, a free string
Long textMulti-line description
NumberAlertable on a threshold
MeasurementValue plus a unit, restricted to a group
DateAlertable on approach or expiry
Yes / noA checkbox
DropdownOne of a fixed set the lab defines
TagsSeveral of a fixed set
PersonFrom the organisation roster
ReferencePoints at another record
SequenceDNA or primer, in monospace
QR / barcodePrintable identifier
LinkAn external URL
ImageUploaded and shown in the row

Up to 5,000 rows per import file. Comma, semicolon or tab, detected automatically. Excel’s UTF-8 export lands clean.

Keep exploring

It gets better when it is all connected.

Every part of SLIM links to the others. Here is what connects to the inventory.

See your own lab in SLIM, in 30 minutes.

Send us a spreadsheet before the call. We build your inventory from it, show you around it live, and you keep it whether you continue or not.