Following on from my post about Notebook Sharing, here’s another blog post wrestling with the consequences of changing from paper to electronic lab notebooks. Interestingly, the prospect of using an Apple iPad as an ELN gets some consideration.  I suspect that we’re going to hear a lot more about iPads in due course.

One of the big arguments in favour of an Electronic Lab Notebook is of course the ability to share information with your co-workers.  However, despite the obvious benefits of sharing, there’s always the ‘cultural’ issue to deal with as well, i.e. how happy am I to share my ideas, records and data with my co-workers? [...]

It sounds as if there are several schools around the world to train future bioinformaticians and laboratory informatics professionals. It is only on the European projects I have been working on where I seem to run into graduates of such a program, and it always seems the person comes from the GPHY School in Poitiers, France ( http://www-gphy.univ-poitiers.fr ).

Elizabeth Moritz started an interesting post on Nature Network entitled I Want YOU…to write in your lab notebook.  Interestingly, the post is not about technology, just the discipline of keeping a lab notebook.  The comments are particularly revealing, and well worth reading!

I just finished reading “Social Software in Libraries: Building Collaboration, Communication, and Community Online” by Meredith G. Farkas. I was reading it for tips on managing my LIMS/Laboratory Informatics group, which I figured is also a place to provide content and share ideas, in some small way, a little like what a library is meant [...]