TeselaGen’s Lab Inventory Management System integrates your physical materials (samples and aliquots) with locations and organization inside them. By having a detailed track of your physical materials, you can easily locate and update them, and even automate the use of them using workflows.

Containers are shelves, racks, and/or drawers used to organize samples in a laboratory. TeselaGen's software includes several default container types, however, these can be edited can be edited by admin users (check the explanation in this article). The container record can be found on the Freezer and Equipment Management Toolkit on the left side panel. To see them, go to the "Containers" menu.

One of the strengths of the TeselaGen platform is its great search capabilities. To search through your containers, you can easily filter your containers down to a reasonable subset, and check their contents using the search tool on the upper right corner.

Clicking on a specific container takes you to the record view, where you can see its content>

Note that if you click on the plate name link as shown below, you will be taken to the plate record view for that plate.

From the plate record view, shown below, you can easily move the plate to a new location using the 'Move Plate' button.

You can easily create a new container by clicking on the "New Container" button. Fill in the required information, and notice that it is possible to generate a barcode for it.

After submission, you can view your new container in the container record view.

Equipment Types can be edited by admin users. To access to these settings, go to User Settings > TeselaGen Settings > Equipment types.

Hit the "New" button to create a new equipment type or double-click on an entry to edit.

Select the "Container Type is Positional" option to specify container types with positions. One example of this might be your freezer racks, with their positional slots.

Note: Once a freezer has been recorded in the system along with its positional aspects, and once freezer racks have been registered in the system with their positional aspects, you have enough information in the system to begin setting up your freezers.