A recent article in Nature addresses the use of laboratory databases to manage inventory (Lab-inventory management: Time to take stock). The article describes a range of available databases to integrate inventories of lab strains to reagents to electronic notebooks (imagine linking an experiment to the strains and reagents used, electronically…), with prices ranging from free to… not free. Managing inventory for a group of researchers always seems challenging, so this is probably worth consideration. Especially during/after a (hypothetical) lab move or cleanup and the realization that there were 5 bottles of formamide and 6+ containers of glutathione, all stored in a variety of locations.