FreezerWorks Bar-Coding and
Freezer Management Package

The GCRC Informatics Core, with the help of Dr. Jill Buyon's RRNL group and Dr. William Rom's Biomarker group, has purchased the FreezerWorks freezer management package in order better to manage laboratory specimens. With this package, the GCRC Core Lab and GCRC investigators will be able to reliably store and retrieve samples and data they need for their labs. Bar-code labels can be printed and affixed to samples allowing accurate and complete identification of these samples (lab reagents, patient tissues or fluids, molecular probes, etc.) which will allow them to be used more effectively and efficiently. This will also help eliminate pre-HIPAA practices which in some labs included adding PHI to tube labels.

How to get involved:

The GCRC aims to offer the FreezerWorks package both to GCRC investigators as well as non-GCRC NYU affiliated investigators. We expect to institute a modest cost sharing charge to all investigators who use this package in order to help cover ongoing maintenance and support of the software.

Download the Freezerworks Client
(you'll need an account for these programs to actually connect to the GCRC Freezerworks Server)

• Windows PC (Windows 98, 2000, XP)
• Mac OS X

Please contact Steven Aponte at 3-7492 to find out more about the system and how to become a user.