An interesting conundrum about dealing with data in a company with so many different types of biological teams and experiments is satisfying domain specific needs with very general database infrastructure.

We have a relational database and the models, like Sample, have a well defined meaning. But if a team wants a Tissue Sample, now I have to specify a set of properties to store for each Sample to make it a new "type", e.g organ.

Generality is awesome but sometimes kinda messy.