Cataloging Yeast Strains

[Robin L. Wright]

Filemaker is a great, easy to use Database program for cataloging  
strains.  It can also be used to maintain inventories and chemical  
safety date.  Even better, it now comes in two versions, PC and MAC,  
that both have the same look and feel.  This means that you can save  
a file from a PC and use it on a Mac and vice versa.  I have used the  
program on both platforms and can attest that it works the same on  
both.  You can do simple searches as well as complicated AND, NOT, OR  
combinations.  It is one of the best programs that I have used - and  
everyone in my lab agrees.

Filemaker, like all databases, works by storing information, then  
allowing you to display that information in various ways.  If you are  
interested in having the layouts we use for strain cataloging, I  
would be happy to provide them.

Robin Wright
(P>S> I have absolutely no interest, financial or otherwise, in  
Claris, the Filemaker maker.)