Lab Integrated Data (LabID) is an open-source web-based platform for research data management in life science institutes, featuring sample and dataset management, an inventory management system and an electronic lab notebook. LabID allows recording extensive experimental information about the provenance of data (samples, reagents, instrument, protocols, assay parameters) and is designed to help individual scientists, research groups and core facilities better manage, annotate and share their research according to FAIR principles.

We recently developed the LabID workflow integration, as a solution to document the provenance of processed-data, typically originating from computational workflows. While workflows are commonly used to process data, we found that there was no central solution accessible to researcher to keep track of workflows execution together with the data. The workflow integration extends the data-provenance functionality of LabID to document processed data, by recording extensive informations about a workflow and its execution.

Besides enriching metadata about data-provenance, this new development facilitates workflow versioning, collaborative workflow development and tracking of workflow invocations with associated data and metadata. In this talk, I will present the general data-management concept of LabID, then introduce the workflow integration, and how it interacts with workflow management platforms (Galaxy, Nextflow...) and workflow repositories (WorkflowHub, Git...).