OMeta: an ontology-based, data-driven metadata tracking system

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Table 2 Comparison of metadata tracking tools

Features/Tools	OMeta	ISA-Tool	LabKey	CKAN	XperimentR	ICAT
Event based tracking	Yes	No	No^a	No	No	No
Open-source Project	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Project Role-Based-Security	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Ontology Integration & Lookup	Yes	Yes	No	No	Yes	No
Configurable metadata	Yes	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Configurable validation	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Web Interface	Yes	No^b	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Complete Audit trail	Yes	No	No	No	No	No
Asynchronous data loading	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	Yes
Row-level bulk data loading	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes
HIPAA compliance	No	No	No^c	No	No	No
Built-in LDAP Authentication	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

^aLabkey has a process to set-up and load data, but it is not a true event-based system
^bISA-Tool has a ISA-creator that is Java application that can run on a desktop computer, but it lacks the web interface for creating, editing and managing data
^cLabKey Community Edition is not HIPAA compliant, but LabKey Enterprise Edition has HIPAA compliant features

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