List of electronic laboratory notebook software packages
An electronic lab notebook (also known as electronic laboratory notebook, or ELN) is a computer program designed to replace paper laboratory notebooks. Lab notebooks in general are used by scientists, engineers, and technicians to document research, experiments, and procedures performed in a laboratory. A lab notebook is often maintained to be a legal document and may be used in a court of law as evidence. Similar to an inventor's notebook, the lab notebook is also often referred to in patent prosecution and intellectual property litigation.
Electronic lab notebooks are a fairly new technology and offer many benefits to the user as well as organizations. For example: electronic lab notebooks are easier to search upon, simplify data copying and backups, and support collaboration amongst many users.[1] ELNs can have fine-grained access controls, and can be more secure than their paper counterparts.[2] They also allow the direct incorporation of data from instruments, replacing the practice of printing out data to be stapled into a paper notebook.[3] This is a list of ELN software packages.
Web-based ELN
Name | Developer(s) | Initial release |
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Arxspan ELN | Bruker, Inc. | 2011[4][5][6] |
Collaborative Drug Discovery | Collaborative Drug Discovery, Inc. | 2018[7][8][9] |
LabArchives[10] | LabArchives LLC | 2009[11] |
Labfolder | Labforward GmbH | 2012 |
LabGuru | Biodata Ltd Ltd[12] | 2011[13] |
Exemplar Seamless ELN | Sapio Sciences LLC | 2007[14] |
LabVantage 8 | LabVantage Solutions, Inc. | 2007[15] |
Open Science Framework (OSF) | Center for Open Science | 2013[16] |
PerkinElmer Signals | PerkinElmer Inc. | 2017[17] |
Labstep | Labstep | 2015[18] |
Scilligence ELN[19] | Scilligence | 2011 |
Uncountable | Uncountable Inc. | 2018[20][21] |
Free and open-source ELN software
ELN software | Developer(s) | Language base | License | Hosted on | Other info |
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ELOG | PSI | C | GPL v3 or later | Personal computer or server | Developed for the MEG experiment |
Jupyter | Python | BSD | Personal computer or server | Web application[22] | |
OpenWetWare | PHP | GPL v2 | MIT | ||
elabFTW | PHP | GNU AGPLv3 | Personal computer or server | Developed at Curie Institute, Paris[23] |
Proprietary ELN software
Name | Developer(s) | Initial release |
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CDD Vault | Collaborative Drug Discovery | 2018[24][25][26] |
Pillar Science | Pillar Science | 2017[27] |
References
- Myers, James; Elena Mendoza; Bonnie Hoopes (2001). A Collaborative Electronic Notebook. Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference on Internet and Multimedia Systems and Applications.
- Myers, James (2003). Collaborative Electronic Notebooks as Electronic Records:Design Issues for the Secure Electronic Laboratory Notebook (ELN) (PDF). Proceedings of the 2003 International Symposium On Collaborative Technologies and Systems. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-10-15. Retrieved 2017-11-14.
- Perkel, J. M. (2011). "Coding your way out of a problem". Nature Methods. 8 (7): 541–543. doi:10.1038/nmeth.1631. PMID 21716280.
- https://www.arxspan.com/product/electronic-lab-notebook/
- https://www.arxspan.com/product/electronic-lab-notebook/
- https://ir.bruker.com/press-releases/press-release-details/2019/Bruker-Announces-Acquisition-of-Scientific-Software-Provider-Arxspan/default.aspx
- https://www.collaborativedrug.com/cdd-vault-update-cdd-vault-is-now-an-eln/
- https://www.collaborativedrug.com/benefits/eln/
- https://www.collaborativedrug.com/electronic-lab-notebooks-what-they-are-and-why-you-need-one/
- "labArchives", Wikipedia, 2019-12-01, retrieved 2020-02-07
- TachibanaJul. 25, Chris; 2014; Pm, 4:15 (2014-07-25). "The paperless lab". Science | AAAS. Retrieved 2020-02-07.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
- "BioData Launches Labguru, a Collaborative Research Management Web Application for Academic Labs - Technology for Researchers". 2012-05-10. Archived from the original on 2012-05-10. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
- "BioData Launches Labguru, a Collaborative Research Management Web Application for Academic Labs - Technology for Researchers". 2012-05-10. Archived from the original on 2012-05-10. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
- "ChemAxon partners - Sapio Sciences".
- "eNotebook - LabVantage Solutions". 2019-03-03. Archived from the original on 2019-03-03. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
- "Psychologists Launch a Bare-All Research Initiative - ScienceInsider". 2013-05-11. Archived from the original on 2013-05-11. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
- "New Cloud-Based PerkinElmer Signals™ Notebook Helps Scientists Accelerate Drug Discovery Research". PerkinElmer, Inc. Retrieved 2020-02-07.
- "Labstep wants to fix the way science experiments are recorded and reproduced". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2019-01-11.
- "Scilligence and TetraScience Announce Integration Plan to Automate Research Data". PR Newswire. Retrieved 2020-03-10.
- "Uncountable Web Platform Reviews & Product Details". G2. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
- "Streamlining R&D for material formulation". MIT Startup Exchange. Retrieved 2020-08-02.
- "The IPython Notebook — IPython 2.3.0 documentation". 2015-01-02. Archived from the original on 2015-01-02. Retrieved 2018-06-28.
- "Biostars". 2014-09-10. Retrieved 2019-12-10.
- https://www.collaborativedrug.com/cdd-vault-update-cdd-vault-is-now-an-eln/
- https://www.collaborativedrug.com/benefits/eln/
- https://www.collaborativedrug.com/electronic-lab-notebooks-what-they-are-and-why-you-need-one/
- "Pillar Science - Harvard Biomedical Data Management". Harvard University. Retrieved 2019-12-30.