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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LabArchives | LabArchives LLC | 2009[citation needed] |
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[citation needed] |
Jupyter | Python | BSD | Personal computer or server | Web application[4] | |
OpenWetWare | PHP | GPL v2 | MIT | url=https://www.biostars.org/p/110302/ | |
elabFTW | PHP | GNU AGPLv3 | Personal computer or server | Based on MediaWiki |
Proprietary ELN software
Name | Developer(s) | Initial release |
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Labstep | Labstep | 2015[5] |
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.
- ^ Perkel, J. M. (2011). "Coding your way out of a problem". Nature Methods. 8 (7): 541–543. doi:10.1038/nmeth.1631. PMID 21716280.
- ^ "The IPython Notebook — IPython 2.3.0 documentation". 2015-01-02. Retrieved 2018-06-28.
- ^ "Labstep wants to fix the way science experiments are recorded and reproduced". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2019-01-11.