More than ten years ago, I stopped using paper notebooks for my writing and consulting work. As someone who writes and thinks for a living, this was a big transition. But what a payoff I received in ...

When the coronavirus pandemic closed the University of Minnesota in St Paul, plant pathologist Linda Kinkel’s laboratory team cast around for tasks they could do from home. They realized there was one ...

To permanently access this eBook for free, fill out the short form below. We digitized the lab, but we did not make it intelligent. ELNs solved the paper problem, yet many scientists still turn to ...

Electronic laboratory notebooks can be a valuable part of a college science education but are not yet a substitute for traditional paper laboratory notebooks, according to a Duke University chemistry ...

Electronic lab notebook research tools have moved from a lab convenience to a prerequisite for machine learning-ready data. Paper notebooks were built for a world where reproducibility meant another ...

Electronic lab notebooks (ELNs) are valuable for laboratory digitization infrastructure, but they behave like digital filing cabinets that cannot do more than simply record generated data. Artificial ...

Research involving 150 laboratory professionals shows that most labs currently operate in a so-termed ‘passive state’, using electronic laboratory notebooks (ELNs) as digital filing cabinets, or a ...

Laboratory notebooks contain a literal wealth of information to advance research enterprise-wide, to protect and support patents, and to streamline the regulatory submissions process—if only they ...

Laboratory notebooks are essential components of the scientific process because they allow researchers to record hypotheses, methods, results, and analyses. They also serve as organizational tools and ...

During his PhD, an immunologist at a Harvard Medical School-affiliated research hospital followed what he understood to be best practice: recording his work in an electronic lab notebook (ELN). Then ...