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Axiope Catalyzer is a combined data management, data sharing and data publication tool. It is used for inventory and sample management, image management, as an electronic lab notebook, and numerous other applications. Catalyzer lets you enter, edit, browse, search and share your own structured information - it's more powerful than spreadsheets, more structured than documents and way simpler than databases. The Catalyzer system consists of two components: the Desktop, described in this part of the userguide, and the Server, described in the Catalyzer Server Userguide
If you'd like to get up and running quickly with the software, this chapter shows you how to:
The next chapter, Introducing Catalyzer includes a more extensive introduction to what you can use Catalyzer for, and describes what "catalogs", "records" and "classes" are exactly.
Chapters 3, How to use Catalyzer , and 4 Making Classes Classy show in detail how to create and edit catalogs for your own information or for a project you are managing or supporting. Chapter 5, Spreadsheet / table mode shows how you can use Catalyzer as a more powerful alternative to spreadsheets for managing information, with a similar user interface. Chapter 6, Searching, filtering and browsing shows how to use the Catalyzer features for simple and sophisticated searching and sorting of your data.
Chapter 7, Annotation Images shows how you can mark regions on images as of interest, and add comments to those regions.
Chapter 8, Importing and exporting shows you how to import various kinds of information, including catalogs on disk, into Catalyzer, and how to export catalogs as disk files or to print or pdf
.Chapter 9, Advanced Features describes the more advanced features built into Catalyzer, including required fields, user defined types and barcode fields. Chapters 10 Reference: Field Types and 11 Reference: Preferences includes details of all the different field types and options, for reference purposes.
Chapter 12 gives some all-important ideas on How Catalyzer can fit in with existing work-flows by providing some common example uses, including sample and inventory management using barcoding, and electronic lab notebook.
The final chapters cover Licenses, Hints, Tips and Troubleshooting and a Technical appendix.
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