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? [...]

There’s a new Electronic Laboratory Notebook Group on LinkedIn – follow the link to join.  This is the third ELN group to appear within the LinkedIn framework; you can read the rationale for establishing the group here.

The SMi Group held their annual ELN conference in London last week, under the title ‘ELN: Laboratory Informatics for the 21st Century’. The programme contained a full range of good quality presentations on all aspects of ELNs and related topics that represented the state of the industry. As with most conferences on this [...]

There has been a growing level of interest in the potential of SaaS (Software as a Service) as an alternative means of deployment for LIMS and ELNs.  SaaS is an attractive option since it has the potential to simplify installation, deployment, and maintenance.  Furthermore, is is globally accessible, and allegedly more affordable that a conventional managed, [...]