Modern laboratories are increasingly reliant on electronic data collection and analysis, so it seems inevitable that the digital revolution should come to the ordinary laboratory notebook. Laboratory notebooks have been a staple of scientific research for centuries for organizing and documenting ideas and experiments. Smart Electronic Laboratory Notebooks for the NIST Research Environment The smart electronic laboratory notebooks described in this paper represent a paradigm shift from the old pen and paper style notebooks and provide a host of powerful operational and documentation capabilities in an intuitive format that is available anywhere at any time. The most important aspect of this transition is to make the shift as comfortable and intuitive as possible, so that the creative process that is the hallmark of scientific investigation and engineering achievement is maintained, and ideally enhanced. Gates, Richard S McLean, Mark J Osborn, William A
Smart Electronic Laboratory Notebooks for the NIST Research Environment. In this article, we review and evaluate some of the approaches that have been taken thus far and also some radical new methods of integration that are emerging. The benefits of ELN increase when they are integrated with other laboratory informatics tools such as laboratory information management systems, chromatography data systems, analytical instrumentation, and scientific data management systems, but there is no well-established path for effective integration of these tools.
ELNs offer significant advantages over paper notebooks, but adopting them in a predominantly paper-based environment is usually disruptive. Electronic laboratory notebooks progress and challenges in implementation.Įlectronic laboratory notebooks (ELNs) are increasingly replacing paper notebooks in life science laboratories, including those in industry, academic settings, and hospitals.
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